This afternoon we visited a bakery where they make the traditional bread from this region called chapla. The bread is round with about a 6-inch diameter. It is about 4 inches high and hollow. It is light tan with darker brown on the top and is a tougher, crusty bread. We have this bread in baskets every morning for breakfast.
The walkway to the bakery was lined with huge piles of firewood for the oven. We saw the three- hundred-year-old wood-burning oven and huge baskets filled with the big rolls. The biggest baskets I have ever seen. We are talking round baskets with a diameter as big as my arms spread wide. There was a little old man in charge of the money and a young woman in charge of filling the orders. We walked passed the giant oven to the back room where four Peruvian men were rolling out balls of dough. The mint green colored room had stacks (piled higher than my head) of huge bags of flour. I started craving fresh bread when I smelled the great smell of baking bread.
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After hearing about the process of making the bread, I treated the group to fresh baked chapla. One nuevo sol (30 cents) for 5 big rolls. Great price. We all savored the flavor of the warm bread and agreed that this was a good outing.
Let Me, Pat Green
The walkway to the bakery was lined with huge piles of firewood for the oven. We saw the three- hundred-year-old wood-burning oven and huge baskets filled with the big rolls. The biggest baskets I have ever seen. We are talking round baskets with a diameter as big as my arms spread wide. There was a little old man in charge of the money and a young woman in charge of filling the orders. We walked passed the giant oven to the back room where four Peruvian men were rolling out balls of dough. The mint green colored room had stacks (piled higher than my head) of huge bags of flour. I started craving fresh bread when I smelled the great smell of baking bread.
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After hearing about the process of making the bread, I treated the group to fresh baked chapla. One nuevo sol (30 cents) for 5 big rolls. Great price. We all savored the flavor of the warm bread and agreed that this was a good outing.
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