After a hard week looking to gather all the ingredients for the hallacas, we could start doing them as a family. With songs at low volume and sharing a drink of rum, we once again met my sisters and I this December of 2018.
My father is a man who loves to keep traditions alive and despite the cost of the ingredients of hallacas, this was no exception. On the afternoon of 12/22/18, he and I cleaned the leaves and then let them dry; My mother prepared the stew and we waited for my sisters to arrive to start doing the rest.
We started at nightfall, everyone had an important role in the creation of these hallacas; Some put the dough in the leaves and gave it shape, others placed the ingredients above the dough and then passed them to another table where the rest of us wrapped them in more leaves and tied them.
While we were doing this process, the first ones to enter the pot were ready, so we were taking them out and putting them in the water and we still did not finish making and tying up all the hallacas.
We stayed there until 2 o'clock in the morning, when we took the last batch of the pot with super hot water. We managed to make a total of 72 Hallacas and 17 Bollitos, no doubt a large number that served us for Christmas dinners and give some to our friends and family.
I had not uploaded this post before since I did not have access to the photographs. But I hope that it was your total pleasure to see and read how it was that we had a different day in family doing Hallacas.
