Today I want to talk to you about a typical Christmas sweet in Valencia: Sweet potato and peanut small cakes of wafer.
There is a video, which explains you the recipe very well; if you want to watch this video, please click below:
http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/aqui-la-tierra/aqui-tierra-pastelitos-obleas-boniato-cacahuete-para-navidad/4383726/
Some ladies from Alginet (Valencia) have taught Koldo (reporter of the program "Aquí la tierra") to make such a Christmas sweet.
Koldo: “Girls: I am already here ... Hey, Mer, what's up? ...”
Mer: “It was time….”
Koldo: “Listen to one thing: Can I come into your house?. They have told me that you are nice but that you tick people off here .....”.
Mer Torres (Homemakers Tyrius): “I tick people off, I tick people off”
Koldo: “You tick people off, Right?”
Koldo: ”I have brought you the sweet potatoes ... Come I on time or not?”
Mer: “Now for what, now for that, if it is already made?”
Koldo: “Have you already done everything? ..... What are what we are preparing?”
Maria Teresa Burchés (Homemakers Tyrius): “Cakes of wafers with sweet potato and peanut, from Alginete”
Koldo: “And peanut”
Mer: “The ladies from Alginete are great character and they know how to do everything ..., of everything what you want”
Koldo: “Well, I have come with the sweet potatoes, because you have called me .....”
Mer: “But you have arrived late”
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Mer: “Many more things can be done; but, as always you are in a hurry, we have done only this”
Koldo: “Tell my boss….”
Mer: “And we still have something else, in Alginete: you have sweet potato, you give me sweet potato; I have caki, I give you caki. Everyone gives what they have and we are very very unified”.
Koldo: “Then it is a barter, right?”
Mer: “Exact”
Koldo: “But look, pay attention, I have brought this one ..., take it, give me twenty Euros ....”
Mer: “No, no way”
Maria Teresa Burchés: “The peanut is roasted, the dark skin is peeled and the peanut is passed through a mortar”
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Mer: “Once I left a finger picking peanuts”
Koldo: “Is it difficult ... Have you take it with a knife?”
Mer: “No, no, no…., you peeled, on a stone, and, then, I did so and I almost left a finger”
Maria Teresa Burchés: “We have boiled the sweet potato, we have peeled it and gone through the masher. You give the point to sugar and water and then put: the sweet potato, already crushed; the peanut, which is also crushed, cinnamon, lemon and sugar”
Koldo: “What flavor does it have?”
Maria Teresa: “Special, it is special; it is a special snack ....; it is sweet but it is not oversweet”
Koldo: “With whom do we accompany this?. Here are the friends of the Association. When was it eaten and how was it eaten”
Maria Teresa: “They are those of the Board .....”
Koldo: “Are you those from the Board ...?, Do you lend twenty Euros to me...?”
They laugh……
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Koldo: “How was it eaten….?”
Maria Teresa: “How was it eaten….?, well, after the meal .....”
Koldo: “Yes, lady”
Maria Teresa: “.......with coffee, with champagne, with Bistela (a stuffed corn bread with prawns and cheese for example) ...., as you want .....”
Koldo: “Do you remember the first time that you tasted these small cakes?”
Mer: “Yes, when I conquered my husband ...; I conquered him by the mouth ....”
Koldo: “Ahhhh. By your way of speaking?”
Mer: “No, no, by my way of cooking…”
Koldo: “Ah. By your way of cooking”
Mer: “He came invited, with some friends, a day; I set the table, he was awestruck... and he stayed”
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Koldo: “We have the sweet potato with the peanut, we have the neula (a crunchy and sweet dessert from Catalonia, typical at Christmas), ...... What do I make?”
Mer: “Bread it”
Koldo: “I put it”
Mer: “Fold it”
Koldo: “I fold it….,I have broken it”
Mer: “Break it”
Koldo: “So?”
Mer: “So….And eat it”
Koldo: “And this is it, right?”
Mer: “This is it”
They laugh…………
Koldo: “It is so….I make this and it is so…..and this is it…..So good…..I am going to stay sixty-nine years more here ...!”
Mer: “I have enough with one”
Koldo: “Ehhhh?!”
Mer: “I have enough with one”
Koldo: “Do you know what I am saying to you?, that as you do not want it, I steal it ..., keep working ..., see you, girls ...”
They tell Koldo goodbye……..
Well, I hope that you will like the video, with that original and homely dessert.
Until my next post, kind regards,
Luis.
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