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Pan de Cea
Galicia's Pan de Cea is an Ourense sourdough with a dark, thick stone-baked crust, firm irregular crumb, and central fenda that opens the long loaf into two rounded lobes.
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Pan de Cruz de Ciudad Real
Ciudad Real's Pan de Cruz is a cross-scored candeal loaf with a firm golden crust and close white crumb, made to keep well, turn into migas, and carry every last spoonful of Manchegan gachas.
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Pan Gallego (Galician IGP Wheat Loaf)
Galicia's high-hydration wheat loaf gets its irregular, honeycombed crumb and hard brown crust from masa madre, patient fermentation, and gentle hands that keep the trapped air where it belongs.
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Pataqueta Valenciana
Valencia's little crescent roll has a crisp, flour-dusted shell and an airy crumb made for splitting along the curve and filling with blanc i negre.
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Pan de Puño de Gran Canaria
Gran Canaria's firm country loaf is worked with the closed fist until smooth, then given a patient rise and a hard bake for close crumb, strong crust, and good keeping.
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Boroña Asturiana
Asturian boroña is the plain corn loaf of the wet north, scalded with salted water and baked inside cabbage leaves until the crust darkens and the crumb stays close, gold, and moist.
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Toña o Panquemao Valenciano
Valencian toña, also called panquemao or panou, is the domed Easter loaf of eggs, olive oil, sugar, and citrus, risen patiently until feather-light beneath its dark, sugared crown.
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Taja Navarra
Taja is Navarra's folded hogaza: a golden, sturdy loaf whose deep middle crease comes from a thick wooden rod, never a knife, so the dough opens into two joined lobes as it bakes.
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Pa Moreno Mallorquí
Pa moreno is Mallorca's brown everyday bread: a saltless round loaf with a close crumb, baked dark and sturdy enough for pa amb oli, sobrassada, cheese, soup, or the morning's preserves.
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Pan de Alfacar
Granada's Pan de Alfacar is a hand-kneaded loaf of masa madre, spring water, wheat flour, and patience, with a supple open crumb under a crisp golden crust.
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Telera Cordobesa
Córdoba's telera is a candeal loaf with a fine, close white crumb and crisp gold crust, refined under a rolling pin and marked with two deep cuts into its unmistakable montera shape.
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Sopako, Basque Soup Bread
Sopako is the Basque Country’s bread for the soup pot: a compact wheat loaf baked deep brown, then dried hard, ready to drink the broth of zurrukutuna without turning gummy.
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Bollo Preñao Asturiano
Asturias tucks a whole smoky chorizo inside each bread roll, so its pimentón-red fat seasons the crumb as it bakes. Seal the dough well, and you have the proper food of romerías and picnics.
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Mollete de Antequera
Antequera’s Andaluz mollete is a pale, pillowy roll made to meet the plancha: barely bake it, cool it soft, then split it for olive oil, crushed tomato, and jamón.
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Broa Galega (Galician Corn-and-Rye Bread)
Broa Galega is Galicia's sturdy maize-and-rye loaf: scald the corn flour, give the damp dough time to rise, and the oven gives back a cracked crust and close, faintly sweet crumb.
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Pa de Pagès Català
Catalonia's round country loaf earns its thick chestnut crust and moist, irregular crumb from ripe massa mare, patient fermentation, and a fierce hearth bake, then keeps well enough to feed the table for days.
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Pan Candeal Castellano
Castile's pan candeal is the opposite of an airy loaf: a firm, pale bread whose dry dough is rolled again and again until the crumb bakes fine, close, and nearly holeless.
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Pan de Cristal Catalan (Pa de Vidre)
Catalonia's pan de cristal is all thin amber crust and a web of large holes. The dough carries as much water as flour, and gentle folds make it strong enough for pa amb tomàquet.
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Llonguet Mallorquí
Llonguet is Palma's oval bread roll, folded and rolled so its natural seam opens into the deep split that marks it, with a light crumb and thin crust ready for a proper bocadillo.
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Hogaza de León
León's great pan de flama is a one-and-a-half-kilo round, slowly fermented and baked dark, with a thick crust that protects its moist, irregular crumb for days.
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