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In Baños de Agua Santa there are different whereabouts where you can savor the typical sweets of the city such as the famous marshmallows. The process for making this sweet is a tradition that has passed from generation to generation. This process begins with obtaining honey from panel base. The honey is cooked over low heat without stirring until it boils and reaches the point of caramelization. Once it is completely caramelized, the whole mixture is slowly poured onto a marble or metal tray previously greased with butter or olive oil.
When the honey is already cold, it is stretched with oiled hands until the color lightens and a more solid paste forms, which begins to be beaten vigorously until the ideal consistency is obtained. Nuts, peanuts, or other dried fruits are added to this sweet. Vegetable dyes are also used on some occasions to obtain presentations of multiple colors.
You can find guava sweets, nougat, candies, cocadas and peeled straws in bags, along with their traditional cane juice, which is extracted at that time, with the help of a small mill to be able to crush the canes and thus obtain its liquid. . After this process it can be served with ice and a little lemon or tangerine juice, there are also the famous cane juice granitas (crushed ice), definitely Baños is the land of sweets.