🖊️📖Travel Diaries to immortalize your Visit to Alfama🚋Bababobo, Handicraft and Souvenirs Shop in Alfama, Lisbon, Portugal🛺
- BabaBobo
- Apr 15
- 2 min read
Updated: Apr 18
As you can see in this short video we have just received a lovely collection of postcards and travel diaries Made in Portugal🤩!
About our Travel Diaries🚋 Bababobo, Souvenirs and handicraft shop in Alfama, Lisbon, Portugal🛺
In addition to being an original gift idea, easy to take in your luggage🎒, if you are a born artist or have the soul of a poet, you can draw the narrow cobbled streets of Alfama and its colorful houses where clothes, socks, household linen, rags, tea towels... hang on typical Lisbon drying racks ...
...or write a few sonnets, a verse, a fado that the neighborhood will have inspired you✒️...
If you have a more practical mind, you can write some Portuguese words like, "Óla!", "Quanto custa?", "Onde posso apanhar o eléctrico 28?", "Obrigado!", just to memorize them😊...
And if you like Ginja de Óbidos, "com ou sem elas"🍒, you can choose from our wide range the notebook of all your dreams, bring a pen and write down the recipe of this elixir:
"Ginja de Óbidos" recipe 🍒
Preparation:
✏️Wash and seed the morello cherries.
✏️Place them in a sturdy glass jar, cover with sugar and leave at room temperature for a day.
✏️When the morello cherries release their juice, pour in the cognac. At this point, also add a vanilla pod or cinnamon bark.
✏️Close the bottle tightly and leave to act for a month.
✏️After this time, squeeze the fruits using a citrus press or simply enjoy them. The second option is even more tempting and allows you to feel all the intensity of the wonderfully aromatic morello cherries.
✏️After pressing, let the liquor clarify and, when sediment forms, carefully pour it into bottles😋.
🍒“Ginja sem elas” is a Portuguese expression used to order the famous cherry liquor
✏️Literal meaning: “sem elas - without the cherries”
✏️Content: You only receive the liquid liquor, without the macerated fruit inside.
✏️Contrast: It contrasts with the order “com elas - with the cherries”, where one or two alcoholic morello cherries are added to the bottom of the small glass.
😌Final thoughts…
Ginja is a sour cherry liquor very popular in Lisbon and Óbidos, traditionally served in small glasses or chocolate cups.
Although it finds its roots in the ramparts of the medieval city of Óbidos, this potion can be declined in an infinite number of preparations which can be enjoyed in moderation...
Source : Google IA🔮
