12/10/2023 0 Comments 2 de febrero dia de la candelaria![]() Choose the one that speaks most to you for your Candelaria gathering. Here are two of Familia Kitchen’s most popular recipes for these masa delicacies. You Got the Baby Jesus! Which of These Tamales Will You Make? ![]() Let’s start with the tamales-since they are the main meal in the traditional Candelaria celebration feast. And of course, chocolate beans and the corn in atole are both crops used and honored by the Aztecs. 2, the start of the Mexican New Year: wrapped food made with maize. While the day itself is connected to Catholicism-brought by the Spaniards-the custom of how we feast goes way goes back to the Aztecs. The word tamale comes from the Nahuatl tamalli, which means “wrapped food.” As in what the Aztecs offered the gods each year on Feb. The ritual of celebrating with tamales, chocolate and atole with friends and family is a blending of Mexico’s centuries-old history and traditions. An Aztec & Spanish Mashup Celebration With Food and Drink Earlier in the year, “godparents” are chosen for baby Jesus and they have the honor of hosting several celebrations leading up to February 2. Some communities go all out and organize a street festival to parade decorated statues of Jesus and the Virgin Mary to the local church. One common element at most Candelarias: a statue of the baby Jesus is dressed festively and carried to church for viewing and blessings. ![]() Click on highlighted text or images, below, for recipes.Two thousand years later, depending on the region, this feast day honoring the holy family’s mother and child is observed in a variety of traditions across Mexico. I am also sharing my recipe for Mexican style hot chocolate, since for many years now, there has been a propensity to serve hot chocolate along with, or instead of, atole this will not affect the tradition of corn offerings, as long as tamales are the main item on the table, as in the photo at the top of this post, showcasing a mug of frothy hot chocolate with an assortment of sweet and savoury tamales. Offerings of corn were presented to the gods for healthy and abundant crops some aspects of these practices were incorporated to the Christian Candlemas, such as the blessing of seeds for the coming planting season, and the offering and sharing of corn-based food and beverages, such as tamales and atole.Īs I have mentioned, nowadays, Día de la Candelaria celebrations involve church services for the blessing of candles and figurines representing baby Jesus, with the corn-based foodstuffs shared later, at a meal usually hosted by the person(s) who found figurines representing baby Jesus, hidden in the special bread that was served on Epiphany Day (January 6).įor this Día de la Candelaria, I have gathered all the recipes for tamales that I have posted to date, as well as my recipe for atole (corn-based beverage) in three different flavours. The midwinter days marked by the winter solstice and the spring equinox (in the Northern Hemisphere, between late December and the third week in March) were dedicated to the new year in the Aztec calendar, and the beginning of the agricultural season in Mesoamerica. In a similar way in Mexico, after the Spanish conquest in the 16 th Century, Día de la Candelaria came to replace the Pre-Hispanic ceremonies connected to the earth (for fertility) and meteorological events (for abundance). For this reason, the feast became also known as Candlemas, or Día de la Candelaria , in Spanish. This date was easily accepted by new Christians in Rome, due to the correspondence to their already well-established dies Februatus purification dates small animals and birds, such as turtle doves, were a mandatory offering, but this practice was eventually abandoned, and candles were incorporated instead, as a symbol of purity and new life. According to ancient Jewish tradition, a new mother had to be purified forty days after giving birth, and present her baby at the temple, so, shortly after December 25 was fixed as Christmas Day by the Roman Catholic Church, sometime in the late 4th Century, the second day of February was marked as the Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord Jesus and of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
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