This document summarizes activities from a Comenius Project meeting in Portugal. It describes planting Romanian lilacs to mark Comenius Day and includes several traditional Portuguese recipes such as Broad Bean Stew, Roast Lamb, Codfish Fritters, Sweet Vermicelli noodles, Crème Brûlée, and Roast Apples. It also discusses the region's material and immaterial patrimony including soil, climate, flora, and berries/seeds used for dye. Links are provided for learning more about the Douro Valley region and the school.

1. Comenius Project
IN NATURE: FOR BODY AND SOULIN NATURE: FOR BODY AND SOUL
Portugal
Ahaus, Germany, 2013
Partners MeetingPartners Meeting
“From the Moorlands to the cultural lands in the
West Munsterland”

2. Activities

3. Planting the Romanian LilacPlanting the Romanian Lilac
““Comenius Day”Comenius Day”
Class 9thB

4. Broad Beans Stew
RECIPES- Recipe Book
Main Courses
Broad Beans stew
Ingredients
1kg of peeled broad beans
1 chorizo
1 black pudding
400g pork ribs
3 little onions, 4 cloves of garlic
A coriander bunch, a few spearmint leaves, laurel leaves, 1
dl olive oil, a glass of white wine, a tsp of paprika.
Preparation:
In a pan, put the onion, the laurel, half of the coriander, olive
oil and the garlic, and let it braise slightly.
Then, join the ribs, 13 chorizo in slices, and stir-fry them a
little. Then add a tomato, paprika, white wine and salt.
Cover the pan and let it cook for 15 min.
Add the broad beans and the blood sausage and add a little
of water in way of covering everything. Above the broad
beans, display the left chorizo (not in slices).
Cover the pan and let it cook in soft heat the necessary
time the beans become tender.
As soon as they are cooked, turn off the heat and sprinkle
them with the rest of the coriander, the spearmint and the
chorizo in slices. They are ready to be served.

5. Roast Lamb
RECIPES
Main Courses
“Cabritinho Assado”
(Roast Lamb- “Kid”)
After well prepared, the beheaded little lamb, is rubbed with
garlic sauce previously prepared with chopped onion, white wine,
parsley, pepper, bulk salt and paprika.
Then, add in the bowl a little more of white wine. Leave it
marinating for 24h.
Next day, rub the lamb with the seasoning.
Meanwhile, prepare a stir-frying with a little of lard and chopped
onion. Add small pieces of veal, prosciutto and previous chopped
giblets. Add the sauce and let it cook. After cooking, add
crumbled bread, an egg yolk and lemon juice. Remove from the
heat and add a handful of stoned olives. Season it with salt,
pepper and nutmeg. This mixture may be used to stuff the lamb or
to garnish the rice.
The lamb must be cooked in the oven with strips of bacon sticked
into the skin and sprinkled with the rice syrup. Before finishing the
roast, sprinkle it with a hot water saffron sauce.

6. RECIPES
Main Courses
“Cabritinho Assado”
( The Rice)
The rice: In a pan, fry two onions, the lamb’s head, half a kilo
of veal, prosciutto, lard, smoked chorizo, parsley, pepper,
clove and salt.
Strain the broth (keep the meat) and let it gently cook.
Fry the rice in olive oil and add the broth. Season it with a bit
of the lamb’s sauce, salt and pepper. Let it slightly cook s and
take it into the oven, in a clay pot.

7. Codfish fritters
RECIPES
Main Course (also delicious as starter)
“Pataniscas de Bacalhau”
( Codfish fritters )
Ingredients:
600grs codfish
4 eggs
A big onion
A parsley bunch
Salt and pepper
Oil to fry
Preparation:
1- Boil the cod after soaking.Drain it and cut into
thin slices taking out all skin and fishbones.
Reserve the cod boiled water. Meanwhile, peel
and chop the onions. Wash and chop the
parsley.
2- Add the eggs with the flour, stirring firmly until
getting a soft texture cream. A little of the
reserved water can be added if necessary. Add
the cod, the onion and the parsley. Involve well.
3- Finally, season freely and fry spoons of the
mixture in hot frying oil.

8. Aletria
RECIPES
Desserts
“Aletria”
(Sweet Vermicelli- noodles)
Ingredients
4dL of milk
100grs of vermicelli
150 grs of sugar
50 grs of butter
3 egg yolks
Lemon peel
Cinnamon
Preparation:
Cook the vermicelli for 5 minutes and drain it.
Then, heat the milk along with the lemon
peels, the sugar and the vermicelli and let it
cook. When it’s cooked, add the butter and,
already taken away from the heat, add the
egg yolks previously beaten. Take it to the
heat just for the egg yolks lightly cook.
Sprinkle with cinnamon.

9. Crème Brûlée
RECIPES
Desserts
Crème Brûlée ( milk cream)
Ingredients
1 liter of milk
6 yolks (rather homegrown egg)
7 tsp of sugar
4 tsp of cornflour
1 Lemon slice
Preparation:
Put the milk to boil with the lemon slice. Meanwhile, stir the sugar with the yolks and the cornflour
(put a little of milk to mix easier).
When the milk boils, add slowly the cream and keep stirring.
Put the mixture in the pan where the milk was previously boiled, in low heat until it begins to boil,
without stopping stirring.
Place it in a plate, sprinkle with sugar and burn it with hot iron.

10. Roast Apples
RECIPES
Desserts
Roast apples with cinnamon, honey and Port wine
Ingredients:
Golden apples
Honey
Cinnamon
Port Wine
Preparation:
Remove the apple core with a ginner
Display the apples in a baking tray
Shed honey on the top of the hole made by
the ginner
Put a cinnamon stick in the same opening
Dip the apples in Port wine
Take them to bake

11. Material and Immaterial Patrimony
The importance of sustainability of water and soil:
Get to know – SoilSoil
Dry soil ( Drought year)Dry soil ( Drought year)

12. Material and Immaterial Patrimony
The importance of sustainability of water and soil:
Get to know – SoilSoil
Schist greeny valleySchist greeny valley

13. Material and Immaterial Patrimony
The importance of sustainability of water and soil:
Get to know – SoilSoil
Terraced vineyardsTerraced vineyards

14. Material and Immaterial Patrimony
The importance of sustainability of water and soil:
Get to know – Flora
Strawberry Tree-Strawberry Tree- Arbutus UnedoArbutus Unedo

15. Material and Immaterial Patrimony
The importance of sustainability of water and soil:
Get to know – Flora
Rosehip-Rosehip- Rosa caninaRosa canina

16. Material and Immaterial Patrimony
The importance of sustainability of water and soil:
Get to know – Flora
Coark Oak-Coark Oak- Quercus SuberQuercus Suber

17. Material and Immaterial Patrimony
The importance of sustainability of water and soil:
Get to know – ClimateClimate
The climate in our region.- Douro region- isThe climate in our region.- Douro region- is
mediterranean, which can be featured with:mediterranean, which can be featured with:
- Relatively smooth winters with temperaturesRelatively smooth winters with temperatures
between zero and minus five centigrades (ºC)between zero and minus five centigrades (ºC)
- Dry and hot summers ;Dry and hot summers ;
- Precipitation throughout the lasting 9 months ofPrecipitation throughout the lasting 9 months of
the year;the year;

18. Berries and seeds used to dye and paintBerries and seeds used to dye and paint
Carqueja- Baccharis
Trimera

19. Berries and seeds used to dye and paintBerries and seeds used to dye and paint
Elder-
Sambucus nigra

20. HerbariumsHerbariums

21. HerbariumsHerbariums

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http://www.world66.com/europe/portugal/dourovalley
http://www.manorhouses.com/regions/valdouro.html
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