The festival of San Juan are nights of dancing, music, firecrackers, fireworks and magic.
in Ciutadella (Menorca), this festival is a very special celebration because the farmers are represented, married, bachelors, masters and the church, with clear echoes medieval, all on horseback. Take place the famous "caracoles" conclusion to the sound of popular music with prancing horses, waving flags and a traditional battle of hazelnuts. A popular drink during the festival of San Juan is the "cream", a mixture of gin and lemonade.
According to tradition, people go to the beach to dinner and party, surrounded by a magic circle of candles away evil spirits. Around midnight begins the purification ritual: the wishes written on paper and burned everything bad in the previous year. To meet the desires, you have to jump 3 times above the fireplace and a swim at midnight.
In San Pedro Manrique (Soria) takes place "over fire", where the local cross barefoot stomping not to burn, embers of the fire, often taking another to his back. This cleansing ritual in nature.
pastry pumpkin and pine nuts
Ingredients:
2 sheets of ready-made puff pastry 1 jar
angel hair with pine nuts 100 g
teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 egg
1 tablespoon
milk sugar Extend pastry sheet on a baking tray covered with baking paper prepared (previously thawed, if frozen, follow package directions). Cover with pumpkin, sprinkle with cinnamon powder and prop up the other sheet of pasta closing out the edges. Beat the egg with a tablespoon of milk and paint the surface of the cake. Spread pine nuts on top, sprinkle with a little sugar and bake at 180 ยบ C for half an hour. When presented well browned remove from oven, let cool on a rack and serve.
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