Humitas

Ingredients

• 12 cups of mature corn with out the cob
• 130 g of butter
• 65 g of lard
• 2 cup of cheese. grated
• 2 tablespoon of sugar
• 3 spoons of baking powder
• 6 eggs
• 20 corn leaf
• salt

Preparation Mince and sieve the corn. In a frying pan melt the lard and the butter. Add to this to the corn with the cheese, sugar and baking powder. Mix well using a wooden spoon, adding salt bit by bit and continue mixing, testing the amount of salt required. Add the yolks and mix. In another bowl beat the egg whites until stiff, gently add to the mix.

Take one corn leaf at a time and add a table spoon of the mixture. Fold the edges inwards and the bottom to the top, to avoid spilling. Put each one into the “tamaleta” (special saucepan used to cook humitas, a sort of bain-marie pot) with the open part upwards. Vapor cook for an hour. Serve hot with coffee.