Do you know what makes cookies, pies or pastries simply sensational?
Great recipes always have a "secret ingredient", and I've found one to share with you: mexican vanilla!
On a recent trip to Arizona, I went across the border and discovered this sensational flavoring, and we absolutely LOVE IT! We were so excited, we contacted the manufacturer and can now offer the same vanilla to all our CorasCreations.com customers.
If you've never tried it before, mexican vanilla adds sensational flavor to pies, pastries, ice creams, cookies, yogurts, drinks, desserts, baking, confectionery and more. Now you can be the one with fabulous food that people are asking about!
This is the first time we've ever offered a food item to our customers, but we hope you enjoy it as much as we do. And it saves you a trip to Mexico!
Vainilla (In Tlixochitl)
The mexicas called it Tlilxochitl vanilla, of tliltic. It is a black xochitl flower. The name also alludes to the fruit, that has a case of about twenty centimeters. Vanilla is a trepadora plant of the family of the orquídeas (Vanilla planifolia). It's exquisite frangrance is used to perfume liquors, chocolate, candies, lotions and many other products.
Tlilxochitl, an exquisite contribution of the pre-Hispanic world, was discovered by the totonaca culture. This culture arose in the region of Totonacapan, in which today it includes part of the state of Veracruz and the state of Puebla, to the east of the republic, near the Gulf of Mexico.
In this town, vanilla is one of the plants of greater importance. It is important in the series of religious traditions around Xanath, in which all the town participated. In fact, for them Xanath was a symbol, it represented the center of its cultural society.
The conditions that have to develop so the totonacas can cultivate the plant is astonishing. It needs very climatic and geographic conditions for its development. The altitude level cannot be above 500 meters, and there has to be a humid warm climate. All these conditions united in the region of Totonacapan. But in addition it needs another condition. It is not possible to be pollenized alone, it needs the intervention of human hands. For unexplainable reasons the flower cannot pollenize itself. The human hand joins the masculine and feminine parts of the flower.
This activity was done in a ritualistic way. It was the task of the young and chaste women who dedicated themselves to this office during the flowering. In fact, until recently in the region of Papantla, Veracruz, it could be observed in the fields. Hundreds of youngsters with white shirts and skirts, producing the seed of a richly scented vanilla bean.
When the Spaniards arrived, they remained fascinated with the aroma of this plant, and they sent it immediately to Spain. Shortly afterward, vanilla was well-known in all of Europe. Later, in the attempt to cultivate itself in the warm zones of Asia, it flowered, but did not produce the fruit. It wasn't until the secret of the polinización was discovered, that it managed to produce successfully.
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