Traditions

The 2012 record contrasts the wooden kneading trough with the mechanical mixer then used in Gondiães. It also recalls the move from the communal oven to the Casa do Mártir.

Ingredients, previously donated by residents, came to be purchased. Changes in tools and supplies coexisted with collective preparation for the celebration.

Help also came from people living abroad. The Museum gathered testimonies from emigrants who travelled from Lyon to take part and lend a hand. Remembered tasks included carrying flour and firewood. The move to a mechanical mixer did not remove these jobs: machines, materials and people remained part of the same preparation.

In the account of the 2012 visit, the Casa do Mártir São Sebastião followed the slope of the ground over two floors. The oven, fire, pots and kneading equipment were downstairs.

Prepared food and serving equipment gathered upstairs: the house connected preparation with distribution. This arrangement belongs to the record of that visit, without confirming the layout today.

The upper floor also held the table’s presentation: broa on shelves decorated with coloured cut-out paper, papas in bowls and pork ribs on glazed earthenware plates. Long linen cloths covered the benches used as tables. The materials show that preparing the celebration meant cooking, storing, carrying and arranging food.

The municipality dates RuralBasto’s founding to 1996, first established in Cabeceiras and extended to the region’s other municipalities. Its introduction distinguishes a marketing section, including honey, wine, broa, smoked meats and other products, and a forestry section. Food stories also pass through these forms of cooperation. The institutional description does not confirm current stock, opening hours or sales arrangements.