Savory Pastries

Savory pastries form a large and important category in Sephardic cooking. They may take a bit of work to prepare, but given contemporary conveniences such as refrigerators and freezers, the pastries are easy to have on hand. The name game is challenging. Depending upon where people lived, or family traditions, the identical recipe may go under a variety of titles. A tapada is a double-crusted pie. Its name comes from the Spanish verb tapar, “to cover, ” which also is the origin of the term tapas. Occasionally a double-crusted pie is called an inchusa.