A variety of white wine grape grown in Madeira and the medium sweet wine made from it. Bual grapes are hard, almost always elliptic, greenish-yellowish golden when ripe and grow in large, strongly compressed and dense bunches. They are more full flavored than Verdelho and very sweet and produce good table-grapes and a medium dry, much appreciated win.
A type of medium-sweet Madeira made from the Bual (or Boal) variety of grape. It is sweet, smoky and golden and often drunk as a dessert wine, named after the grape from which it is made. Less sweet than Malmsey.
Dried shrimps, onions, cassava root, fish stock, dendê and coconut milk, served with bananas and grated coconut. It also means red gurnard.
Red gurnard. Gurnards are strange-looking, bottom-feeding fish which use the three bottom rays of their pectoral fins to "feel" the sea bed. They have firm-textured white meat with a mild flavour. They are rich in protein, iodine and phosphorus. The red gurnard is the most attractive member of the family with pinkish-red colour and the finest flavour of the gurnards. They are all bony and tend to dryness so they are best served with a sauce. Small ones are excellent in soup. Red or grey mullet (US: striped mullet) can generally be subsituted for it, and are usually better. Also means a dish of shrimps, cassava, coconut milk and bananas.
Bluemouth. A type of rascasse from deep North American waters and the western Mediterranean. It has a blue flash on the gill covers and enormous eyes. It is an unsightly fish with good flavour and is used in bouillabaisse and other fish soups.
