those red-brown cups EVERYWHERE

[Mary Ganser]

Hey all,

Just wondering if anyone happened to know how I might find and get a hold of some of those small red-brown clay/stone (I can't quite remember) cups that were present at nearly all of the albergues along the way. My fiancé and I decided near the end of our camino a couple of months ago that we should acquire some of these as our simple souvenirs and token reminders of our journey. We didn't worry much about it until getting back to the US because we didn't even think about the difficulty of locating the mugs/cups/pottery that were once so commonplace. Funny thing, how in only a month's time we forgot about the expansiveness of the internet and its endless options for consumers... it makes the google searches for "Spanish pottery" "Spanish stoneware" "camino cups" "Basque pottery" "red Spanish pottery" and so on quite ineffective.

If anyone has any ideas for me, it would be much appreciated. I would love to have them under the Christmas tree for my fiancé.

Buen Camino

PS: You can see the cups here in this photo on the table!

 

[tyrrek]

Hi! Try searching on 'terracotta'. They're cheap as chips in Santiago but possibly a lot more online. I picked up some tapas dishes for less than a Euro! Maybe a kind peregrino will bring a few back and mail them to you.

 

[hecate105]

I think your best bet is to get another pilgrim to buy and post to you - or maybe you'll have to do another Camino....!
We bought similar - without handles in southern Spain. Being a 'local' product they might not be on the net. But you could try Spanish Ebay - www.ebay.es - I found these
261983190848 but not sure they are the same... good luck.

 

[sjagger]

I believe that they are yogurt containers in their first incarnation! So...you might have to go back to Spain, or France, and eat lots of yogurt.

 

[Kanga]

I've got a heap, all collected by my mother in northern Argentina in the 1960s..... Terracotta is a pain to transport, it is so fragile. Chips easily too.

 

[GreatDane]

I bought and ate yogurt from the terracotta cups a few times. And as pack-ratty as I am, I just couldn't rationalize carrying a few of them home as souvenirs!

 

[SabsP]

Mary ,

Take a look here...lots of terracotta.
https://www.tienda.com/catalog/catalog.html

 

[tyrrek]

Here are some more.

 

[t2andreo]

I believe you are referring to the quemada cups. They typically come as part of a ceremonial set comprised of the cups, a center bowl for preparing and serving the "special" mixture for the Quemada Ceremony, and a special platter that has molded spaces to hold the cups and center bowl more or less securely. There might also be a large serving spoon.

Many of the souvenir shops up and down the Rua do Vilar in Santiago de Compostela sell these sets. However, I do not know if they are available online.

Google "Quemada ceremony" and see what you get...

I hope this helps.

 

[SeaHorse]

The ones in the photo are from yoghurt, definitely.

 

[journeycakes]

I brought home two - one was a little wider and was filled with sheep's milk rice pudding and the other contained sheep's milk yogurt. Bought them from the dairy case in the grocery store.

 

[jbear]

Mary ,

Take a look here...lots of terracotta.
https://www.tienda.com/catalog/catalog.html

As Sabine mentioned, try La Tienda. tienda.com They may have them, but probably won't be cheap. Just a thought if you haven't found any you like, my other suggestion would be to make friends with a potter. I've got one cazuela I brought back from Spain 10 years ago and probably a dozen more that were made here, by hand, that look a lot more like the ones my grandparents had than any you would buy today. Happy hunting!

 

[SYates]

That is what Cuajada, see also pic in that article, is sold in supermarkets, at least the better varieties. I am sure if you contact @ivar he can ship you some ;-) Buen Camino, SY

PS They also make terrific, rustic wine cups ...