Sílvia Dias / Eggs

"Alheira is a Portuguese sausage made with many meats other than pork, usually veal, duck, chicken or rabbit, and bread. It was invented by the Jewish as a way to deceive the Portuguese Inquisition. As the Jewish weren't allowed by their religion to eat pork meat, they were very easily identifiable by the fact that they didn't prepare and smoke the common pork sausages in the smokehouses (or fumeiros, in Portuguese). They, therefore, replaced pork with a large variety of other meats, such as poultry and game, which would then be mixed with a bread dough for consistency. This recipe would spread amongst Christians, although they added the ever-present pork to it." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alheira)