Tepache
Pineapple peel fermented with cinnamon, clove, allspice and panela or raspadura.
Tepache is a fermented pineapple drink, and it is made from what usually gets thrown away: the peel, not the flesh.
It also carries cinnamon, clove and allspice, and the sweetness comes from panela or raspadura — which is cane.
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Cane juice, cane honey and raspadura, and the drinks that come out of each.
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Story · 13 February 2025A cane mill in San Juan
The afternoon we watched cane juice boil until it sets, and the four different things that come out of the same cane.
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