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Tamales Serrano (Peru)

From The Landmarks club cook book, 1903

Serves 6

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

Ingredients

  • 1/2 lb. lard
  • pieces of pork
  • onion chopped very fine
  • country sausage-meat
  • peeled roasted peanuts
  • a few grains of anise
  • stoned ripe olives
  • a little good sweet wine (sherry or port)

Method

  1. Fry all ingredients together well and let cool.

  2. Put corn-dough in the wrapper, add one of each ingredient in the sauce, and a quantity of the sauce.

  3. Cover with dough, tie wrappers, and boil for three hours.

Nutrition per serving

351Calories
0 gProtein
2 gCarbs
38 gFat

Estimated from matched ingredients across 6 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Landmarks club cook book (1903) by The Landmarks club, Los Angeles, Calif., page 7. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

TAM AE SERRANO (PERU). (Mountaineer Tamales) : Corn-dough made in the same method as for Creole tamales, and wrappers prepared the same. Take ]/o lb. lard, the pieces of pork cooked in the broth with which the dough is wet up; onion chopped very fine, country sausage-meat, peeled roasted peanuts, a few grains of anise, stoned ripe olives and a little good sweet wine (sherry or port)

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