Lunch at 9:00 in the morning?
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In the crops remembered by Maria da Conceição, the first meal was called lunch and arrived at nine or nine and a half. Fried cod was served with bread, followed by chestnuts broth.
The testimony associates this rhythm to April and May, when tilling and sowing corn. The words of the meals also guard ways of organizing the work. It is the memory collected in this family, not a general time of the municipality.
In this case, the learning of broth came from the mother-in-law, born in Pedraça. The testimony thus distinguishes different people in the transmission of the recipes. The preparation used dried chestnuts, approaching an autumn harvest of spring labor from the fields. The meal recalled gathered preserved food, bread and a concrete agricultural task: to till and sow corn.
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