Recipes from the mill.
House dishes, recipes from chef friends and from grandmother Virgínia, all with a good drizzle of olive oil.
“These biscuits remind me of visiting grandmother Virgínia's house after school.”
Álvaro Veiga · Biscoitos económicos
To cook
House dishes, recipes from chef friends and from grandmother Virgínia, all with a good drizzle of olive oil.
Bruschettas, Fábrica style
A slice of toasted bread, a good drizzle of olive oil and whatever is fresh.
Snack
Oil used raw
Alentejo soup with crumbled roe toast
Presented live on Praça da Alegria, on RTP1.
Soup
Oil drizzled on the plate
Biscoitos económicos
Also known as sodos or azeiteiros. Makes 120 to 150 biscuits, baked in a wood-fired oven.
Sweet
With 500 ml of olive oil
Braised octopus with pea purée and caramelised carrot
Shown on the TVI programme Você na TV.
Main course
Oil to finish
Orange and beetroot carpaccio with goat's cheese
For a light meal or a starter, with oranges and our olive oil.
Starter
Oil used raw
Fig salad
Ripe figs, as a starter or a main course.
Salad
Oil used raw
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Grandmother Virgínia's recipe
Biscoitos económicos
Also known as sodos or azeiteiros. They make 120 to 150 biscuits, baked in a wood-fired oven, and take half a litre of our olive oil.
Makes
120–150
Oven
wood-fired
Olive oil
500 ml
Ingredients
18 eggs
1.5 kg of sugar
500 ml of milk
Juice of 3 oranges
1 small glass of aguardente (grape brandy)
100 g of margarine
500 ml of Ouro da Fábrica olive oil
1 teaspoon of baking powder
3 kg of self-raising flour
Egg yolks and sugar, to decorate
Flour, for dusting
And baking trays for the oven.