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Default Saturated fat for tamale dough

On Sat, 22 May 2010 12:32:48 -0500, zxcvbob wrote:

> A lot of the fat cooks out during steaming (the corn husk soaks it up)


I don't agree with that at all. If corn husks soaks up oil, why
aren't they using that in the Gulf instead of human and animal hair?
they asking for contributions of hair?

There's a fair amount of fat in tamale dough, and I've never any fat
at the bottom of the steaming vessel. The fat stays in the masa, in
my opinion.

-sw