Régua Candies
Also known as: Régua Candies
Amber sugar-and-lemon candies, hand-cut and sold by the Rebuçadeiras.
- Origin
- Peso da Régua · Douro
- Region
- Peso da Régua · Douro
- Season
- Year-round
Rebuçados da Régua begin with sugar boiled with water and lemon peel to hard-crack stage. The hot mass is poured onto a greased surface, worked quickly, hand-cut into small pieces and individually wrapped in paper or cellophane twisted at both ends.
Without industrial moulds, the candies retain small differences in size, amber colour and shape.
- sugar
- water
- lemon peel
- fat for greasing
Light caramel sweetness, restrained lemon and a hard glassy snap.
Proportions and small additional aromas belong to each maker's know-how; some versions mention honey or herbs.
By Peso da Régua station and docks, at Douro fairs and in regional shops.
Coffee or lemon tea; traditionally also a traveller's sweet.
The women known as Rebuçadeiras da Régua sell these sweets at the railway station, river docks and fairs, becoming part of Peso da Régua's cultural identity. Municipal documentation records the trade at least from the 1940s and describes knowledge passed between generations of women.
Sources: cm-pesoregua.pt · jfsedielos.pt · acp.pt
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