The fatties of the Villa are one of the many sweet delicacies based on corn that Mexico gives us. And although it is not known who was the person who started making them, we do have a few details of their history.
To begin with, it must be said that its sweetness is in its ingredients, which are cacahuazintle corn turned into flour, egg, milk, lard and of course sugar. Then the dough is turned into balls to later transform them into tiny tortillas.
Gorditas de la Villa or “chubby saliva”
At first they were namedchubby saliva”because the women who prepared them wet their fingers with their tongues before turning each of the tortillas on the griddle, so as not to burn so much.
Another of the ways in which this sweet corn delicacy was named was “chubby atrium“Because they are the entrances to the different churches in different states of the country, especially in the Basilica of Guadalupethe places where the people who sell them have been for decades.
But they were also called “gorditas de homiguero”, because before metal griddles were used to cook them, the “gorditas” were cooked in anthill stones.
Paper from China, a tradition for the gorditas of the Villa
At first, the heiresses of this culinary traditionthey were wrapped in brown paper so that people could taste them before or after entering the church, but, due to competition, they began to wrap them in China Paper of mexican colors In order to draw more attention from customers.
Over the years, the gorditas de la Villa remained in the memory of millions of Mexicans. Lucía Reza, one of the women who sell them outside the Toluca Cathedraltells that his product has gone in boxes full to USA and to different countries of Europecarried by people eager to relive these flavors of their childhood.
centenary tradition
This sweet corn delicacy became a tradition around the Basilica of Guadalupe in those days when there were still lakes in Mexico City, which is why it was also traditional to sell duck meat or fish tamales to visitors.
But with the disappearance of the aquifers, and consequently of all the lake species, the only remaining vestige of those times are the chubby atrium.
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