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This is without a doubt Mexico’s favorite bread. This bolillo recipe will make a bolillo with a crusty exterior and soft pillowy center that will be perfect for making tortas, molletes, and pambazos. Did you know it was the Spanish that introduced wheat into Mexico?? With it came cakes, pastries, bolillos, and flour tortillas. Corn was the basic grain for the indigenous people of Mexico and in many ways it still is, but with the arrival of the Spanish a mestijaze or mixture of cultures happened with the introduction of wheat. Today, some of the most delicious Mexican delicacies like buñuelos, mantecadas, and empanadas are a result of the combination of skill, taste, and ingenuity of two cultures. This bread...