At flour tortillas they lack little to fulfill 500 years of existence, time in which they have gained a predominant place in the national gastronomyespecially from New Lion, Lower California, chihuahua Y sound.
It was in the first years after the arrival of the Spanish people to these lands when one of the conquerors named John Garrido took advantage of a few wheat grains that accidentally came in the Hernán Cortés boats to plant them and produce more. With the first crops he made bread for the first time in what is now Mexico.
The flour tortilla emerges in Sonora
Then, in 1542, the Spanish who were part of the first expeditions to the north of Mexico took the grain to Sonora hoping to be able to prepare bread in those regions, but at a point in history they stopped doing it to instead produce zarukia mix of broken wheatWater, butter and salt.
With this dough, the Spaniards living in Sonoran territory copied the records that the Mexicas, among other groups from the center, prepared with corn, thus giving rise to the flour tortilla.
The crucial flour tortilla in the missions to the Californias
By 1769 the Iberian explorers They used the flour tortilla as a fundamental food to survive during the scans in the Californiasthis because they were easy to prepare even in the wildest territories.
One of the first written references about them was made by the expeditionary Michael Constanzo in 1769, who wrote about the exploration of Monterey, California: “Wednesday, November 15. As the people lacked all the supplies other than a very short ration of flour tortillas, they arranged to rest in this place in order to give rise to some prevention of clams that were said to abound a lot in the rocks of the beach.
Mexicans consume 126 tons of flour tortillas per year
Going back to 1542, we can see that Sonora is the birthplace of this product, of which 126 thousand tons are currently consumed per year in Mexico, according to the company. Inca butter.
The traditional flour tortilla in Sonora is the gigantic “shoulder holster”, probably the first to be manufactured in Mexico. However, in the country they are made in various sizes depending on the region or the dish for which they will be used. Here it is worth remembering that there is no burritos neither synchronized no flour tortillas.
By Joshua Huerta
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