World Cuisines

Dulces Típicos and Antigua Coffee

Guatemala

The highland sweet tooth: dulces típicos of Antigua — canillitas de leche (milk fudge sticks), cocadas, nuégados (orange-blossom fritters in syrup) and the famous coffee — the convent-sweet tradition of the colonial capital.

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The highland sweet tooth: dulces típicos of Antigua — canillitas de leche (milk fudge sticks), cocadas, nuégados (orange-blossom fritters in syrup) and the famous coffee — the convent-sweet tradition of the colonial capital. Ingredients: milk, sugar, cinnamon (canillitas); coconut (cocadas); flour, eggs, orange blossom (nuégados); Antigua coffee beans. Recipe: 1) Cook milk and sugar slowly to fudge; shape sticks. 2) Fry nuégado puffs; soak in syrup. 3) Brew Antigua's volcanic-soil coffee strong. 4) Serve at meriendas and market stalls (the Antigua market's sweet rows are famous). Serve: with coffee, always. Flavor: caramel, coconut, blossom. History: Antigua's convents taught sugar work to the colony; its coffee later conquered the world. See also: Pepián, Tamales (Guatemalan).

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