At Christmas, back to the hearth
Vive Cabeceiras · Pedraça · account from 2011

A family custom kept the old cooking pot in use.

By 2011, Maria da Conceição Gonçalves Mouta was already cooking on a gas cooker with stainless-steel pans. At Christmas Eve dinner, however, the whole meal returned to the hearth and three-legged pots.

The account recorded in Recovos, Pedraça, also notes that she sometimes returned to this way of cooking outside Christmas. The old utensil still had a place in a kitchen that had changed. It is a family memory, not a custom attributed to every household in the municipality.

Sources and context
Basto Land Museum — testimony of Maria da Conceição Gonçalves Mouta, collected by Maria de Fátima Carvalho in 2011
https://museuterrasbasto.wordpress.com/alimentos-e-alimentacao-em-cabeceiras/
Accessed: 2026-11-07

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