Like Water for Chocolate by Esquivel Laura

Author:Esquivel, Laura [Esquivel, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Tags: Novels

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Chamandongo

Chapter Eight

August

Chamandongo

INGREDIENTS

¼ kilo ground beef

¼ kilo ground pork

2OO grams walnuts

200 grams almonds

1 onion

1 candied citron

2 tomatoes

1 tablespoon sugar

¼ cup cream

¼ kilo queso manchego

¼ cup mole

cumin

chicken stock corn tortillas oil

PREPARATION:

The onion is finely chopped and fried in a little oil with the meat. While it is frying, the ground cumin and a tablespoon of sugar are added.

As usual, Tita was crying as she chopped the onion.

The tears clouded her vision so completely that before she realized it she cut her finger with the knife. She gave an angry cry and went back to preparing the champandongo as if nothing had happened.

Right now she didn't even have a second to take care of her wound.

That evening John was coming to ask for her hand, and she had to prepare a good supper in only half an hour.

Tita didn't like to have to hurry with her cooking.

She always allowed enough time to cook food perfectly, trying to organize her activities in such a way that she had the peacefulness she needed in the kitchen to be able to prepare succulent dishes exactly as they should be prepared. Now she was so late that her movements were jerky and hasty, which led to that sort of accident.

The main cause of her lateness was her adorable niece, who had been born three months before, prematurely, just like Tita. The death of her mother affected Rosaura so deeply that it brought on the birth of her daughter and made nursing the child an impossibility.

This time Tita couldn't or wouldn't take on the role of wet nurse, as she'd done with her nephew, and what's more, she didn't even try, perhaps because of the devastating experience she'd had when they took the child from her. Now she knew better than to establish such an intense relationship with a child who wasn't her own.

She chose instead to provide Esperanza with the same diet Nancha had used with her when she was a tiny baby: gruels and teas.

She was baptized Esperanza at Tita's request. Pedro had insisted that the child should be given the same name as Tita, Josefita.

But Tita refused to hear of it. She didn't want her name to influence the child's destiny. It was enough that while giving birth to her, her mother had had a series of setbacks that forced John to perform an urgent operation that saved her life but made it impossible for her to get pregnant again.

John had explained to Tita that sometimes, because of abnormalities, the placenta does not just implant in the uterus, it sends roots down into it, so that when the baby is born, the placenta does not detach.

It is so firmly attached that if an inexperienced person tried to help the mother and pulled on the placenta by yanking the umbilical cord, the whole uterus would come with it. Then it would be necessary to perform an emergency operation, removing the uterus and leaving the woman unable to become pregnant for the rest of her life.

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