Are they from a bakery or store bought? If from the store what brand?

Have you run across this in your searching?
http://blogquat.blogspot.com/2008/11/wo … olive.html

Looking at the ingredient list; unbleached wheat flour, extra virgin olive oil (24%), sugar, baking powder, sesame seeds, anise seeds, salt and natural anise essence.

This recipe looks close.....
toodie jane, I only noticed your post now, sorry. Here's the recipe:
Olive-oil wafers
1 1/2 c plus 2 tablespoons all-p. flour
1/4 c unhulled sesame seeds
3 tablespoons sugar, plus more for sprinkling
1 tablespoon anise seeds
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 t salt
1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
1/4 c plus 2 tablespoons ice water
2 large egg whites, beaten until foamy
Preheat oven, 400F, place racks in upper & lower thirds. In electric mixer bowl (with paddle attachments) mix flour, sesame seeds, sugar, anise seeds, baking power & salt on low, until just combined. In small bowl combine olive oil & water, add to flour mix. Beat on low until just combined, scrape down sides of bowl.
Shape a 1.5 tablespoon of dough into a ball. Place 2 balls at a time on a piece of parchment, at least 5" apart and cover with another piece of parchment. Roll out into v. thin 8x4" ovals (change the size if you wish). Transfer dought & parchment to a baking sheet. Lift off top piece of parchment. Generously brush ovals with egg white & sprinkle w/sugar. Repeat with 2 more balls of dough.
Bake, rotating sheets halfway through, until they are brown at edges & in spots on top, 6 - 8 mins. Cool on wire rack. Wafers may be kept, stacked between layers of parchment, in airtight cont. at room temp. of up to 4 days.
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/465172

Seems Ines has kept her recipe a secret for 99 years. Trying to match the hand made ( ) factory produced torta will be a challenge.

I did find a book that has at least one recipe for it; Traditional Spanish Cooking by Janet Mendel. Search "google books" and they have a preview of the recipe on page 28. There is another recipe in the book on page 296 but they don't provide the preview.

OT but found this torta recipe and I'm going to give it a try. 
http://www.blisstree.com/bakingdelights … erfection/

Do ingredients on packaging usually mention yeast? E.g. is it mentioned on bread packets? I have none in the house so I can't check. But some things like that don't get mentioned - and after all, there's no live yeast left in the final product.

I seem to remember that the nuns who make them said yeast was an ingredient

hippytea wrote:

Do ingredients on packaging usually mention yeast? E.g. is it mentioned on bread packets? I have none in the house so I can't check. But some things like that don't get mentioned - and after all, there's no live yeast left in the final product.