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The most famous Mantecadas are the ones prepared in Astorga town under the name Mantecadas de Astorga. Their ingredients are eggs , flour , butter and sugar . Butter is essential in the preparation and differentiates the mantecadas de Astorga from average bizcocho or magdalenas (muffins). [ 7 ]
Manteca colorá (Andalusian pronunciation for "red lard") is a food item prepared by adding spices (usually bay leaf and oregano) and paprika – which is what gives the dish its characteristic orange colour – to lard, which is then cooked with minced or finely chopped pieces of pork.
A gordita (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡoɾˈðita]; lit. ' chubby ') in Mexican cuisine is a dish made with masa and stuffed with cheese, meat, or other fillings. [1] It is similar to the Colombian and Venezuelan arepa.
Gliricidia sepium, often simply referred to as gliricidia or by its Spanish common name madre de cacao (also anglicized as mother of cocoa), [2] is a medium size leguminous tree belonging to the family Fabaceae.
A cocoa pod (fruit) is about 17 to 20 cm (6.7 to 7.9 in) long and has a rough, leathery rind about 2 to 3 cm (0.79 to 1.18 in) thick (varying with the origin and variety of pod) filled with sweet, mucilaginous pulp (called baba de cacao in South America) with a lemonade-like taste enclosing 30 to 50 large seeds that are fairly soft and a pale ...
Chocolate is a Spanish loanword, first recorded in English in 1604, [1] and in Spanish in 1579. [2] However, the word's origins beyond this are contentious. [3] Despite a popular belief that chocolate derives from the Nahuatl word chocolatl, early texts documenting the Nahuatl word for chocolate drink use a different term, cacahuatl, meaning "cacao water".
Chocolate is a food made from roasted and ground cocoa beans that can be a liquid, solid, or paste, either on its own or as a flavoring in other foods. The cacao tree has been used as a source of food for at least 5,300 years, starting with the Mayo-Chinchipe culture in what is present-day Ecuador.
Manteca may refer to: The Spanish word for lard; People. Albert Manteca (born 1988), Spanish footballer; Jon Manteca (1967–1996), Spanish activist;