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Tigelada or Tigelada de

Abrantes Abrantes () is a municipality in the central Médio Tejo subregion of Portugal. The population was 39,325, in an area of . The municipality includes several parishes divided by the Tagus River, which runs through the middle of the municipality. ...

is a typical

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dessert made in a

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. Its cooking is done in a pre-heated glazed clay bowl. In Peral, a parish in the municipality of

Proença-a-Nova Proença-a-Nova () is a municipality in the district of Castelo Branco in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 8,314, in an area of 395.40 km2. The present mayor is João Lobo. The municipal holiday is June 13. Parishes Administratively, ...

, these bowls give rise to a festival that takes place on 1 May called ''Festa das Tigeladas''.

Description

A Tigelada is in the form of a disk with a thickness of and a diameter of . It presents a yellow-brown color and a sharp texture. Its bottom part is

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due to the high temperature that the bowl reaches in the oven before the mixture is added. Tigeladas are made with eggs, milk, unleavened flour, sugar, lemon and salt.

History

It has its origin in

Lisboa e Vale do Tejo Lisboa e Vale do Tejo (; en, Lisbon and Tagus Valley) was one of the five regions of Portugal ( NUTS II subdivisions). Today two of the subregions are in the new Lisboa Region, two in the Centro Region and one in the Alentejo Region. The regio ...

. By consulting the historical archives, the recipe for a sweet called ''Tigeladas de D.ª Maria de Vilhena'' was found in the Cookbook of ''Infanta D.ª Maria'', published by the National Press – Casa da Moeda, which coincides with the recipe of Tigeladas de Abrantes. In a more or less consensual way, the product is considered a conventual sweet. There is a set of documentation in the Historical Archive of the Municipality of

, which contains a list of recipes from the Convento da Graça de Abrantes, which contains the recipe for the Tigeladas. However, its origin is claimed in several locations in the municipality of Abrantes.

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