Cochinito de Piloncillo is a typical Mexican bread with "piloncillo"—a type of brownish sweetener made out from sugar cane.
The Cochinitos de Piloncillo were oven-cooked by the first time in Veracruz state during the sixteenth century. The name comes from the animal they have the shape of: the pig. When they conquered and colonized Mexico, the Spaniards introduced a series of new animals such as horses, cows, sheeps, dunkeys, and the pigs. Those animals were completely strange for the prehispanic people and later on, when they learned how to make bread they started to experiment with new ingredients doing different types of shapes in the bread they cooked.
In the present day, the tradition has been gradually lost and just a few places cook them now, mainly in small towns where the Prehispanic traditions remain.
The Cochinitos de Piloncillo were oven-cooked by the first time in Veracruz state during the sixteenth century. The name comes from the animal they have the shape of: the pig. When they conquered and colonized Mexico, the Spaniards introduced a series of new animals such as horses, cows, sheeps, dunkeys, and the pigs. Those animals were completely strange for the prehispanic people and later on, when they learned how to make bread they started to experiment with new ingredients doing different types of shapes in the bread they cooked.
In the present day, the tradition has been gradually lost and just a few places cook them now, mainly in small towns where the Prehispanic traditions remain.
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