The memory of our palate When 
Fall is presented in this part of Andalusia, the atmosphere is filled with sweet aromas of Christmas. Alcaudete to Antequera, Arjona to Rute and Montoro to Estepa, many men and women toil in the factories of candy to make them available on the market these delicious cakes that are essential on Christmas tables.
Large supermarkets and specialized stores offer a variety of Christmas sweets, from all these places, love nougat and other varieties that are produced in different English regions. However, every weekend there is a transfer of vehicles, as a pilgrimage for all these locations to search for shortcakes, sandwich cookies, donuts, polvorones and other delicacies, besides the own enjoyment that is the visit to these populations.
These trips have a fun component, hiking and walking through the streets of these people we sometimes family ties bind us, but basically what is going is to buy fat cakes. Search for those hard to find products on the market to supply us regularly and these cupcakes have been in
the memory of our palate throughout our lives.
What the traveler looking for product freshness and wrong for employers who take advantage of these visits to gluttonous shoppers to endorse the campaign expired mantecados earlier, as the stale will smack that sooner or later, never again to visit that company. Another thing that does not please the visitor to the Christmas candy factories, is being charged at the factory, the same price or more expensive than buying these products in a supermarket, so at this point, the entrepreneur who acts That way, you'll see how it will gradually reduce the number of buyers. What if this greedy tourist is grateful to be allowed to visit inside the factory and be taught the manufacturing process, which is a small museum display of these products or any culinary curiosity such as monuments or chocolate or cribs representation in sweet and familiar characters, which now will have time to visit your store to buy.
Among the varied clientele who are looking for new developments or innovations that are specialties that are not traditional, but they can be interesting for the components used, but most abundant are those who rummage in their memory and try to find the quality and flavors of old ... or is
the memory of your palate .
Thus we find companies that care more about marketing than respect for tradition or the quality of raw materials. These raw materials, almonds, flour, butter, virgin olive oil, eggs, sugar ... worth and worth the final price will be affected by it, but if the eggs are the artificial product that is sold in plastic bottles industrially, the almond is lightened with other less expensive nuts, sugar is replaced by sweeteners and improper use of chemicals such as preservatives, thickeners and colorants, the result will be cheaper, but not the customer would like, which will reject the product, how much money you save.
The paradox is that every year, we see how it goes down the quality of a particular type of shortbread, or gingerbread polvorón, loses the taste we have in the memory of our
paladar o nos sorprenden con novedades o experimentos no deseados, y de cuando en cuando nos encontramos con nuevas cajas de presentación esmerada y de estética antigua en donde se nos ofrece a un precio superior al habitual, productos como los de antaño, como los que esta empresa hacía hace veinte o treinta años. Esto no es de recibo y viene a demostrar que se vuelve a fabricar lo que nunca se debía haber abandonado en aras de una mayor ganancia económica.
Hoy en día todos emplean y abusan del chocolate sin que realmente dominen, la mayoría, la fabricación de este producto, empeorando, a mi parecer, el dulce tradicional que tan bien hacían. Se usan y abusan los productos químicos saborizantes que vaguely reminiscent of a sweet taste and are nominated for this or that raw material when they have no trace of it.
Luckily, in our villages, there are still companies that respect the tradition and quality that, more or less, our reach continues to make Christmas cakes that we all want to buy.
Without recommending any of them, that's something to keep trying and choose yourself, presented below in alphabetical order, some companies dedicated mainly to the sweet Christmas.
In Alcaudete, Doña Jimena and Forest Products. In Antequera, Antequera, La Flor de Antequera and Mantecados La Perla. In Arjona, Products Fields. In Estepa The mattress, the pantry Palace, La Estepa, The Messiah, The Wall, The Patriarch, San Enrique, and The Vicar of many. Montoro, Marzipan The Logroñesa and in Rute, La Flor de Rute and Galleros Craftsmen. Bon Appetit
greedy.
Once upon a time there was
