Musing on Food and Wine

Category: semana santa

  • Roscos de manteca e vino

    Roscos de manteca e vino

    These are little crowns, similar to beignets but oven cooked, typically eaten during Semana Santa in Ponferrada together with limonada. Due to the fact that they are made from Manteca de Cerdo, or pork fat, the act of drinking limonada while eating them is traditionally, and somewhat irreverantly or non-politically correct, called Mata Judío… Roscos…

  • Limonada

    During Semana Santa in Ponferrada (and in Leon, it seems), all bars serve limonada, a alcoholic drink based on wine (most often red, but some are white) and similar to sangria. It used to be served with a rosco, which is a (sweat) bread crown made with pork fat (raw lard). Given that the Bierzo…