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The white ancestor of salmorejo: bread, blanched almonds, garlic, olive oil and vinegar pounded into a cold cream, with no tomato at all. Usually served with apple, raisins or salt cod on top.
Mazamorra is what Córdoba ate before the tomato arrived. Roman in origin and kept alive by olive-grove labourers who needed cold calories in the heat, it is a mortar dish of stale bread, almonds, garlic, oil, vinegar and salt, closely related to the ajoblanco of Málaga. When the tomato finally reached Andalusian kitchens in the eighteenth century it displaced mazamorra almost entirely, and the older soup survived only in a handful of houses. Taberna La Montillana is the reliable place to find it today, and its reappearance on modern Córdoba cartas is a deliberate act of recovery rather than an unbroken tradition.
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Taberna La Montillana has traded on Calle San Álvaro in Córdoba since 1948, bull heads on the walls and Montilla-Moriles wines behind the bar.
OrderMazamorra, the almond purée that predates salmorejo in this city.
TipThe kitchen rotates a recommendation board, so read it before ordering off the printed carta.
Casa Pepe de la Judería has fed Córdoba since 1928, a taberna downstairs and a roof terrace upstairs that looks straight at the Mezquita tower.
OrderMazamorra, the almond-and-bread ancestor of salmorejo.
TipThe roof terrace is the reason to come, so ask for it when you book rather than taking a ground-floor table.
Mazamorra makes more sense with someone from Córdoba explaining it. These are the classes and tours we have checked, with booking links.
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