At Christmas, he would turn to the fireplace.
A family gesture kept the old pot alive.
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In 2011, Maria da Conceição Gonçalves Mouta already cooked in gas stove and stainless steel pans. However, the whole meal returned to the fireplace and to the three-legged pots.
The collection in Recovos, Pedraça, also notes that it sometimes resumed this way of cooking outside Christmas. The old utensil continued to take place in a kitchen that had changed. It is a family memory, not a custom attributed to all the houses of the municipality.
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