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.jpg) Folar de Chaves | |
| Alternative names | Folar de Páscoa |
|---|---|
| Type | Easter bread |
| Place of origin | Portugal |
Folar or folar de Páscoa is a traditional Portuguese bread served at Easter. The recipe varies from region to region and it may be sweet or savory.[1]
During Easter festivities, godchildren usually bring a bouquet of violets to their godmother on Palm Sunday and this, on Easter Sunday, offers him a folar.
Folar is sometimes served with a boiled egg, that symbolically represents rebirth and the Resurrection.
Folar de Chaves, popular in the north-eastern Portuguese regions of Chaves and Valpaços, is stuffed with pork, ham, salpicão and linguiça.[2]
There are also sweet folars like the folar from Olhão, that consists of seven layers with melted sugar and cinnamon, and the more common folar with anise and cinnamon.
- ^ Barboff, Mouette (2017). O Pão em Portugal [Bread in Portugal] (in Portuguese). Scribe. ISBN 978-9898410665.
- ^ "Folar: a Portuguese Easter Tradition". PocketCultures. 2011-05-04. Retrieved 2022-06-23.