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Terms in Portuguese 1831-1840 of 3077

margarida da Praça

[Portuguese]

A dish from Viana in the Minho of salt cod.

margarina

/muhr-guh-REE-nuh/
[Portuguese]

Margarine. In the 1860's Napoleon Italian Italy sponsored a contest to create a butter substitute and the winner was Hippolyte Mège-Mouries, a French chemist. He made the original margarine from beef and pork fat.

margota

/muhr-GOH-tuh/
[Portuguese]

Wrasse. Ballan wrasse. A very bony fish which provides good flavour for fish soups.

marinado/marinada

/muh-ree-NAH-doo/duh/
[Portuguese] plural marinados/marinadas

Marinated

mariposa

/KRAH-voo/
[Portuguese]

Opah or moonfish, also, confusingly, known as the sunfish. This can be a huge fish, up to 50 kilos in weight. We saw one in an aquarium and it looked positively prehistoric. However the meat is good, pink and firm and can be treated like tuna, eaten raw as sushi, fried or grilled or even roasted.

marisco

/mah-REES-koosh/
[Portuguese] plural mariscos

Shellfish

marisqueira

/muh-reesh-KAY-ruh/
[Portuguese]

Fish restaurant

marlonga-negra

[Portuguese]

Patagonian toothfish. A fish with a taste similar to swordfish and tuna, fished in the Southern Atlantic and Southern Ocean.

marmelada

/mur-muh-LAH-duh/
[Portuguese]

Quince paste. Good with cheese.

marmelo

/muhr-MEH-loosh/
[Portuguese] plural marmelos

Quince