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Default Tamales in the ancient indians -Aztecs, Mayans and Incas

"ASmith1946" > wrote

> "Tamales made of maize flowers with ground amaranth seed and cherries

added;
> tortillas of green maize or of tender maize; tamales stuffed with amaranth
> greens; tortillas made with honey, or with tuna cactus fruit; tamales

made
> with honey; tortillas shaped like hip guards; tamales made of amaranth

seed
> dough; [cakes made of] amaranth seed dough; rabbit with toasted maize;

squash
> cut in pieces; olchicalli; green maize cooked in a pot and dried; amaranth
> greens cooked with dry land chili; sauce of purslane with dry land chili;

green
> amaranth seeds with dry land chili..."


Drool. Are things like this still being made, I wonder?

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