Old-time treasures

This house is full of history, little by little we want to show formerly objects and give them back the importance they really have...

but not only objects... there is a great amount of words and expressions forming a magnificent familiar treasure, linguistic and ethnographic as well,  which I go on compiling and I will share through this web

If this house spoke it could tell so many things...

 The"matanza", when the attic got full with all the products that the women of this typically Castilian house, strong and spirited, prepared with great effort: chorizos, morcillas, lomo, costillas were put out to dry or were kept in pots with oil.

Or it could say how delicious the fruta en sartén was, as well as the almendras garrapiñadas, the morteruelo, the rosquillas, and countless delices of all tastes which always pervaded the kitchen with their splendid scent.

This house has witnessed innumerable "one-time crafts:  making of handmade soap or quince jelly, woollen mattress loosening, turkey breeding...

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Fortunately, even in XXIst century we think it is a luxury to keep old-time instruments such as a stuffing-machine, a copper bed-heating machine or a steelyard balance, and we want to pay tribute here to this "fortune".

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Even better... our mother, faithful follower of my grandmother and her own grandmother, keeps alive many of these traditions, cooking resolí, our typical spirituous drink, quince jelly, handmade soap or jam of all kind of fruits...traditions which we also try to learn.