What cheese goes with Madeira?

For an excellent cheese pairing, serve it alongside creamy sheep's milk cheese or goat cheese. It also pairs perfectly with desserts such as apple tarts and other fruity pastries. Sweeter styles of Madeira such as Malvasia are excellent digestifs and dessert wines.



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Meat in a wine and garlic marinade In Madeira, a typical Christmas lunch dish is diced pork seasoned in wine and garlic. This little treat is accompanied with bread and vegetable migas or a slice of bread fried in lard. The tradition was brought here by settlers from Minho in northern Portugal.

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If you don't already know, Funchal is the capital city of a magical Portuguese island archipelago in the middle of the Atlantic known as Madeira.

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The Portuguese have three meals a day, between 7:30 and 10 a.m. we have breakfast, consisting of drinking coffee or fruit juice with toast or a sandwich. The main meals are lunch, between 12:00 and 2:30 p.m., and dinner between 7:30 and 10:30 p.m.

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Poncha is a traditional alcoholic drink from the island of Madeira, made with aguardente de cana (distilled alcohol made from sugar cane juice), honey, sugar, and either orange juice or lemon juice. Some varieties include other fruit juices.

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