Fartes of Portingale was a great delicacy of the Middle Ages. No, it didn’t involve beans. Fartes means “force meat” which is a meat stuffing. This one was made of lamb. Here is the recipe.
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Fartes of Portingale was a great delicacy of the Middle Ages. No, it didn’t involve beans. Fartes means “force meat” which is a meat stuffing. This one was made of lamb. Here is the recipe.
Let’s serve “Fartes of Portingale for Christmas dinner. Santa will be pleased. He’d probably be impressed with fartes of Bambi too,
OK, to the D students snickering at the back of the class, “fartes” has nothing to do with our English word “fart”. They come from different roots. “Fartes”, “far-tayss”, comes ultimately from the Latin fortia, while “fart” is a good old Germanic word, so old it that has a cousin in Sanskrit, too.
You can do the rest of your giggling in the principal’s office.