Tamales

Ingredients

• 15 dried com husks
• i cup raisins
• 1 onion and garlic
• 1/2 pound pork meat
• 3I cups hot water
• 2 cups hominy
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 3 teaspoons red pepper
• 25 almonds
• 2 tablespns. peanut butter

Method

1. 1

   Take the hominy and corn starch and mix with salt, baking powder, and hot lard.

2. 2

   Add the hot water and beat it with a spoon until it makes a soft, light dough, and let it stand for fifteen minutes.

3. 3

   Put your pork in hot water and salt and cook it until it is quite done.

4. 4

   Add the peanut butter, onion and garlic, raisins and almonds, and let it cook until it is thick.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Foods of the foreign-born in relation to health (1922) by Bertha M. Wood, page 7. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Tamales 15 dried com husks i cup raisins 1 onion and garlic 4 teaspoons lard \ pound pork meat 3I cups hot water 2 cups hominy 2 teaspoons baking 4 teaspoons cornstarch powder 2 teaspoons salt 3 teaspoons red pepper 25 almonds 2 tablespns. peanut butter

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