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Tamales #4

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Category: Meat

 Ingredients List

  • 12 lb Masa
  • 2 lg Pork roasts (about 6 lbs
  • -each)
  • 1 lg Beef rump roast
  • 3 pk "hojas" (corn leaves/husks)
  • 1 pk California whole chile pods
  • -(each pkg contains about
  • -20-25 large dry pods)
  • 1 pk New Mexico whole chile pods
  • 1/2 pk Pasilla whole chile pods
  • 2 tb Cumino/cumin
  • Salt to taste

 Directions

This recipe for Mexican tamales is a long, involved process! It takes,
quite literally, 2 days to prepare. This is my mother's recipe, handed
down from who-knows-how-many generations. My mother's tamales are the very
best, and I'm not just saying that! ;) Follow this recipe -exactly- as
written, no shortcuts!

Because the recipe is so very long and involved, I'll write the directions
in order of steps. If you were very dedicated, you *could* do the tamales
all in one day, but I highly recommend you take 2 days to do it.

DAY ONE:

1. Trim fat off the roasts

2. Rinse meat clean in sink

3. Submerge meat in water in boiling pot, and cook over medium heat for
about 4 hours or until tender. (Each roast should need its own pot. Cook
them all at the same time. Do not salt the water.)

4. Scoop off dried blood as it cooks.

5. When meat has completely cooled, remove bone and fat [save the cooked
fat in its own bowl] and shred remaining meat. Place shredded meat in bowl.

6. IMPORTANT: Save _all_ of the broth!

7. Refrigerate everything for DAY TWO.

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