Folar

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The Folar is traditionally the bread of Passover in Portugal, an ancestral food made by the ritual and alchemist mixture of water, salt, eggs and flour of wheat. The form, the content and the secret varies from region of Portugal and goes from the salty to the sweet bread, in the most different forms.

The Folar tradition, has as base, a ritual of solidarity and brotherhood, with strong symbolic and religious meaning.

It is also the offering to the godfathers and to the priest for Easter. A very strong link between this act and the bread that Jesus distributed with the disciples in the last supper.

In some prescriptions it comes also with a boiled egg, that symbolically represent the reborn and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Particularly the north-eastern of Portugal in Chaves or Valpaços, Folar is made stuffed with meat of pig, ham, salpicão and linguiça.