La Totopera
- comizcal:
The oven consists of a pot of clay filled with bricks and sand, and thetop part is left often.
- metate:
A metate or metlatl (or mealing stone) is a type or variety of quern, a ground stone tool used for processing grain and seeds.
- masa:
Masa is a maize (corn) flour or dough that has been soaked and cooked in an alkaline solution in the nixtamalization process. It is used for making corn tortillas, tamales, pupusas, and many other Latin American dishes.
- totopo:
Totopo, in Mexican cuisine, is a flat, round, or triangular corn product similar to a tortilla, that has been toasted, fried or baked, but it may be prepared with nixtamalized corn masa.
- totopo güero:
A lighter totopo that's pale in comparison to the regular totopo (visual of it is here). It's also used to describe someone who is light skinned (sometimes even used as an insult)
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- 1. The oven consists of a pot of clay filled with bricks and sand, and thetop part is left often. (As defined in "Cooking Technology: Transformations in Culinary Practice in Mexico and Latin America" by Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz, published in 2015). A visual of it can be found here
- 2. A metate or metlatl (or mealing stone) is a type or variety of quern, a ground stone tool used for processing grain and seeds. [Reference]
- 3. Masa is a maize (corn) flour or dough that has been soaked and cooked in an alkaline solution in the nixtamalization process. It is used for making corn tortillas, tamales, pupusas, and many other Latin American dishes. [Reference]
- 4. Totopo, in Mexican cuisine, is a flat, round, or triangular corn product similar to a tortilla, that has been toasted, fried or baked, but it may be prepared with nixtamalized corn masa. [Reference]
- 5. A lighter totopo that's pale in comparison to the regular totopo (visual of it is here). It's also used to describe someone who is light skinned (sometimes even used as an insult)
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