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The Mexican women are grinding, forming and baking tortillas in 1835 Mexico. The description of making tortillas, below, is in a book on Honduras published two decades later. Corn was processed in lye and water, and then the hominy was mashed/ground with a pestle. Corn meal was introduced but rejected by the natives "and the women stoutly declare it impossible to make tortillas in any other than by the ancient method." The picture "Las Tortilleras" was done in Mexico by Carl Nebel…

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