Food Past and Present

FOOD PAST & PRESENT

History and Tradition

Tradicional Recipes

New Recipes

People and experiences

Albur Fishing in Coria

Albur Traditional Recipe

Duck Rice

Shrimps Fritters

Traditionally known for farming and river fishing, most of local recipes in Coria include rare fish like Sábalos and Sabogas (kind of river sardines), Camarones (little shrimps), Albures and even caviar from Sturgeons, not to mention exquisite Wild Duck and river red Crab Rices

Albures a la lata

Traditional Recipes

Pancakeswith Almonds

Abott's ears

Rice with Milk

Doughnut

Torrijas

Ingredients

Torrijas

• 2 eggs
• 1 litre of milk
• bread
• 1 cinnamon stick
• A lemon peel
• 100 g of sugar
• 1 litre of olive oil

Preparation

01

02

Cut the bread into slices while we let the milk boil together with the cinnamon stick and the lemon peel.

When the milk boils, we soak the bread in this milk.

03

04

After that we fry the wet bread in a pan.

Then we soak the bread in the eggs that have already been beaten.

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Finally, we put the fried bread into a bowl with the sugar with cinnamon powder.

and ready!

Tortas de almendras

Ingredients

• 850 g of flour,
• 2 eggs (without the egg white),
• 350g of sugar,
• 250g of butter, and some grated lemon.

PANCAKES WITH ALMONDS

Preparation

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02

In a bowl, mix the flour, the eggs and the sugar.

While stirring, add the previously melted butter.

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04

Cut the dough with the desired shape and put it on a tray to take it into the oven. Before you put them into the oven, spread the grated lemon on top. If you want, you can also add one or several almonds on top of each pancake.

When this is done, put them into the oven. Leave them there for half an hour.

05

And now, the best part……….. ENJOY THEM!!!!!!!!!!

Arroz con leche

Ingredients

Rice Pudding

• 1 1/2 litre of milk
• 1/2 kilo of rice
• 1/4 kilo of sugar
• 1 cinnamon stick
• the peel of two lemons

Preparation

01

Put the peel of the lemons, the cinnamon and the rice in a big pot with hot water.

02

Wait until the water boils.

03

Pour the milk with the sugar and wait until it has boiled for 2 minutes.

04

Pour the rice into a big dish and wait for 1 hour before you put it into the fridge.

Ingredients

• 480 g of wheat flour (3 and a half cups)
• 1.5 tsp baking powder
• 160 g of sugar (4/5 cup)
• 70 ml of milk (1/4 cup)
• 65 ml of mild oil (olive or sunflower)
• 50 ml of orange juice (1/5 cup)
• zest of orange and lemon
• 1 egg
• For the dough:
• 100 g of sugar and 1 tsp of cinnamon

Donut

Doughnut

Preparation

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03

02

We put the egg, the oil, the sugar and milk in a bowl and mix them.

Add yeast and flour and stir until you get the dough. Thenknead it.

We make the donut shape, fry it in oil and add the zest of orange and lemon. We drain them and put the sugar and the cinnamon on top.

Ingredients

• Four eggs.
• Oil.
• Cinammon
• Sugar.
• Anise.
• Sesame seed.
• Flour

Orejitas de Abad

Abott's ears

Preparation

01

First, beat the eggs. Second, pour de four eggs and one glass of sugar into a bowl, and mix up. Later, add half a kilogram of flour, about one cup of anise and a little cinnamon, and mix up again.

02

Once it is mixed up very well, knead the dough until it is less sticky.Now, take a little dough, make it smooth and make strips.

03

Later, curl it up and join the dough to get it into shape.Finally, fry it with hot oil and a little sesame seed.In a few seconds it will be ready to eat.

New Recipes

Poleá

Potatoes Meatballs

Beet Gazpacho

Shrimps Montadito

Shrimps Montadito

Ingredients

• 250 grams of frozen shrimp.
• 6 garlic.
• 1 spoonful of olive oil.
• 2 slices of bread.
• Mayonnaise.
• Salt.
• Pepper.

Preparation

01

02

Fry the garlic in a frying pan with a spoonful of olive oil. When they start to get Brown colour, add the shrimps.

Chop the garlic.

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04

Leave them in the frying pan until they are fried and you have reduced the liquid that the shrimps release.

Toast the bread and spread it with mayonnaise. Set the shrimps on top and sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste.

Beet Gazpacho

Ingredients

• 500g of cooked beet
• 1 tomato
• 1 garlic clove
• 1 piece of bread (50g)
• Olive oil
• Vinegar
• Salt and black pepper

Preparation

01

We peel and cut up the tomato and we spread it on the bread so that it is tasty.

02

We peel and cut all the ingredients. We put them into the mixer with oil and vinegar.We mix it while adding oil.

03

Finally, we put the gazpacho into the fridge until it is time to serve.In addition, it can be served with cheese, bites of ham, hardboiled egg on top of it… as you wish!

Ingredients

Poleá

• 80 gr of flour
• 75 gr of olive oil.
• 120 gr of sugar.
• Cinammon.
• A litre of milk.
• The peel of a lemon.
• A spoonful of sesamo seed

Preparation

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02

01

Fry the sesamo seed with the lemon peel.Put the oil together with the flour, sugar and stir with a spoon.

Add the milk little by little until it thickens and it will be ready to be poured into a few bowls.

Put the cinammon over the porridge and wait for it to cool to be able to eat.

Potatoes Meatballs

Ingredients

• 500 grams of minced meat
• 2 chopped potatoes in small pieces
• 1 egg
• salt
• bread crumbs

Preparation

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02

The meat is mixed with egg and salt

The potatoes are made (20 minutes).

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When the potatoes are cooked, add to meat.

Meatballs are made and rolled in bread crumbs

People & EXPERIENCES

Interview

Interview

Interview

Interview

Interview

Pura and Tradional Food Habits

Isabel: Food during Chilhood

Learning from wise People

Chating with Dolores

Grandpa's Memories