MALUNGGAY YEMA

                       Yema is a custard candy that Filipinos inherited during the Spanish era.

         “Yema” is a Spanish word that means “yolk.” During the Spanish colonial period years, egg whites and egg shells were used to build churches in the Philippines. It was a technique in the olden times to use them as mortar to hold the stone together. And that left an overabundance of egg yolks. Since we Filipinos are accustomed to not letting food fall into waste, Pinoy ingenuity and passion for food came to the fore, giving birth to the recipes that are mainly based on yolks, such as leche flan, yema and more.

        We together with my groupmates were tasked to make various alteration of the common Yema we have in the Philippines. So with this each of us made something new through different additives like mine which is Malunggay Yema.