Good morning, Rodrigo
Good morning.
What are we going to make today?
We’re going to make bread, the traditional Day of the Dead bread in Mexico
We're going to do Day of the Dead bread that they do in Mexico.
How did you make the dough? What is in the dough? Flour?
We put flour, sugar, margarine, orange flavor, yeast in it.
There's flour and sugar.
Yeast is to make it rise.
I'd like to know what you're making now. You'e preparing…
We're rolling them out so they turn out round
What he's doing right now is rolling them out so that they'll become small little balls and then they're going to rise.
How long will it take to grow? Before getting put in the oven?
About an hour before baking it.
It'll take an hour for them to rise before he puts them- before he then shapes them to put them in the oven.
After the balls rise, they want to know the custom. After we make the bread and it's ready, what do people do with the bread? They buy it and then what?
They make an ofrenda to the deceased, their loved ones.
They take it home and put it on their ofrenda.
But does it really get eaten after? Yes
And then after they have it on the ofrenda then they'll eat it later when the family gets together.
They want to know if you have an ofrenda at home.
Not here. In Mexico, yes, but not here.
Here in the United States, no, but in Mexico the family will have their ofrenda.
And for me, we have in our home an ofrenda that we made several years ago
and so we keep that there, we just keep it there every day, we don’t take it apart.
But it’s a custom that
we just recently adopted, because as a young person
we didn’t do that at home.
I was born and raised here in the United States and we just didn’t practice it.
So we’re going to press them all down.
So now the next step is he’s going to prepare what goes on top of the bread.
And now he’s putting on the designs.
Part of the tradition of the Día de los Muertos ofrenda,
they put on the food that the individual liked best,
but it always includes the bread. Because we are big bread eaters,
so that is always one of the things that appears.
We want to know: after the ofrenda bread is set out,
is there a day that we eat everything that's in the ofrenda?
Or what do we do with the bread? Do we eat it?
Yes, we all eat it. Everything is eaten. Yes
But when? The next day or that same day? When?
The next day.
Ok, everything that's put on the ofrenda is eaten by the family
but it's eaten by the family, but it's eaten the day after, not the same day.
Alright, Rodrigo. The bread is in the oven now. Thank you very much. We really appreciate your teaching us what Day of the Dead bread is like.