(Photo LOF - Watermelon with redcurrant syrup)
Place a watermelon on the table and close your eyes.
In your minds eye are children playing in the sun.
Watermelons cry out for recipes that remind you of your childhood. the colour of candy apples, the smell of merry-go-rounds...
Portugal (southern) has, in this area a number of advantages : you can grow excellent watermelons and there exists a national monument to taste and smell : redcurrant syrup (Xarope Groselha) de Neto Costa.
This syrup is immediately identified by all children as good to drink.
(Photo LOF - Redcurrant syrup)
Cut the watermelon into bite size cubes, add a dollop of redcurrant syrup.
To make an after nap snack : put the salad bowl into a larger bowl filled with cool water or ice cubes, cover with a white cloth, place next to the hammock in the shade.
« When my maternal grandfather was still alive, he always had magnificient watermelons in the kitchen garden of the house I live in now. To cool the watermelons, we'd put them in a bucket and lower them into the well. Good memories... » Elvira
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