How much powder goes in the jug
The pouch tells you how many servings are in it. It does not tell you how much goes in a two quart jug on a Tuesday, and that is the number everybody actually wants.
De la cocina
La cocina
Six pages of the part that happens after the pouch is open. Ratios where we know them, honest gaps where the recipes disagree, and the two or three places where everybody goes wrong the first time.
Six pages
Ponche on the stove
Hibiscus shows up in both drinks, which is where the confusion starts. One is a cold red jug with a single flavor in it. The other is a December pot with half an orchard going.
Cafe de la olla without boiling it
Look up olla coffee and you get four recipes with four different amounts of everything. They are all right. The part they agree on is the part nobody writes in bold, and it is what happens to the heat.
From mole powder to a sauce
Dry mole is not a sauce mix you tip into liquid. It goes through a paste on the way, and the pan does the work in two stages rather than one.
Champurrado without lumps
Champurrado is the same hot chocolate with masa stirred through it until a spoon leaves a track. The chocolate half is easy. The masa half has exactly one way to go wrong, and almost everybody finds it the first time.
Horchata on water or on milk
Both are real answers, and people argue about it because both taste like the horchata they grew up with. What follows is what actually changes in the glass.
Where the numbers come from
Every ratio on these pages is one we cook to ourselves, and where the recipes genuinely disagree we say so instead of picking a side and printing it as fact. Ponche is the clearest case: the fruit changes what the pot needs, and no single figure survives contact with a real bag of tejocotes.
The pouches carry their own instructions on the back, and those come first. These pages are for the questions the back of a pouch has no room for.
Nothing here needs a scale or a thermometer. If you only read one line, read the one about stirring the powder into a little water before it meets the jug.
Read one, then pour one
The blends each guide is written around are a click away.