Pampilhosa Goat-Milk Tigelada
Also known as: Pampilhosa Goat-Milk Tigelada
A goat-milk mountain tigelada baked dark in earthenware until sweet aguadilha forms below.
- Origin
- Pampilhosa da Serra · Coimbra
- Region
- Pampilhosa da Serra · Coimbra
- Season
- Year-round · weddings · baptisms · festivals
Pampilhosa da Serra Tigelada is a rustic pudding of eggs, sugar and preferably goat's milk, baked for about an hour in earthenware in a wood-fired oven. Its irregular surface becomes exceptionally dark and deeply toasted; beneath, the centre stays tender and a little sweet liquid known as aguadilha settles at the bottom, the traditional sign of a correct bake.
Heather honey, cinnamon or aniseed may scent the mixture, reflecting mountain ingredients.
- eggs
- goat's milk
- sugar
- optional heather honey
- optional cinnamon
- optional aniseed
Creamy and deeply toasted, with gentle goat-milk tang, oven caramel and optional spices.
Heather honey, cinnamon or aniseed may be used; cow's milk sometimes replaces goat's milk.
At Pampilhosa da Serra restaurants and its August and December food festivals.
Rustic boiled coffee or medronho aguardente.
Made in Pampilhosa da Serra villages from household ingredients, it once accompanied weddings and baptisms in particular. Goat's milk, characteristic of the municipality, gives this Beira tigelada its own identity.
It remains present at family tables, local restaurants, the August Crafts and Gastronomy Fair and Inspira Natal–Filhó Espichada Festival.
Sources: visitarganil.pt · visitregiaodecoimbra.pt
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