Madeira Gastronomic Jeep Tour: Slow Food Cooking Demo & Apple Cider Tasting

Slow Cooking with Love is deeply rooted to the Madeiran Cuisine

 On this Sustainable slow food experience, you will learn all about the slow-cooked Madeiran cuisine made by the locals. The best person to tell us about the traditional recipes is Sandra, a passionate hostess who keeps alive home-cooked recipes from all over the island. Sandra will show us a few of these traditional Madeiran home recipes.

Madeiran Cider holds the History of this Island 

The cider region Sidra da Madeira PGI was established quite recently, but the history of cider-making on the island goes back 600 years. Among the first fruit trees introduced on the island by Portuguese settlers, were some varieties of apples and pears, that found good conditions on the island. It’s believed that cider production on Madeira Island began as soon as the orchards began to produce enough amounts of fruit, and other historical records mentioned that it was possible to find cider, then called “Vinho de Peros” (apple wine), among the supplies that, since the mid-15th century, Portuguese navigators came to get from Madeira Island. In the village of Camacha where they have the cider festival every year, we will get a chance to visit a cider cellar with tasting. 

A day of immersive slow food experiences on Madeira

DAY 1:
FUNCHAL - SANTANA OR SANTO DA SERRA -  CAMACHA  - FUNCHAL

• 09:00AM: Pick up from your hotel in Funchal or the cruise ship port by our local Jeep 4X4 guide.
• Starting off with a Jeep 4x4 tour making our way to Santana for some off-roading and lookout points like; Miradouro Guindaste. Or alternatively, for those who would prefer a bit of a light trail walk, we will stop at Quinta do Santo da Serra, a leisure park where you can find animals such as peacocks, fallow deer, and Garrano horses. Also, a viewpoint overlooking the municipality of Machico, Ponta de São Lourenço, and even the island of Porto Santo. (NOTE: On a Sunday we could include a visit to the farmers market of Santo da Serra)
• Visit a local Cider Cellar in Camacha to learn about the Madeira cider history and a cider tasting of course.
• Traditional Madeiran Recipe Show Cooking Soup Demo
  
•  Sandra known as A Biqueira, will welcome us into her family farmhouse for a special event. Sandra is a passionate hostess who keeps alive home-cooked recipes from all over the island. Sandra will show us a few of these traditional Madeiran home recipes, all made with love in a rural setting, and then we sit and enjoy a true traditional home-cooked Madeiran lunch!
• Return back to Funchal.
• 04:00PM-05:00PM approx.: Drop off back at your hotel or cruise ship in Funchal and final goodbye from our jeep guide.

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