Rosca De Reyes is something many eat on Jan. 6. What is it?

SAN ANTONIO – It’s rosca season. Those that grew up in Texas is likely to be conversant in the Spanish-Mexican celebration of Three Kings Day or Dia de Los Reyes Magos.

The day is well known with the candy bread deal with often known as the Rosca de Reyes within the form of an oval and stuffed with a small plastic child to signify the new child Jesus.

Custom has it that whoever will get the infant doll will throw a celebration or make tamales on Feb. 2, a spiritual day often known as Candlemas Day.

The bakers at Panaderia Jimenez on Fredericksburg Highway begin making roscas days earlier than Jan. 6. They are saying they’ve seen a requirement for the pastry because the bakery opened in Lubbock within the 70s and right here in San Antonio six years in the past.

Frank Jimenez says it’s develop into an enormous market.

“We began off from Lubbock, Texas, which isn’t a customized over there a lot, but it surely’s develop into an academic half now, not solely there, however right here we see lots of faculties now ordering the roscas as a result of they’re educating our youngsters and college students, the college as nicely,” he mentioned.

Each bakery has its personal manner of creating the roscas, however for Jimenez, he mentioned there are a couple of key components — recent cinnamon, anise, and a citrus taste — that make their rosca stand out, in addition to recent cinnamon, anise, and a citrus taste.

The spices and colours added to the rosca have particular meanings. Ramiro Jimenez, co-owner of the bakery, has been making them for many years. He mentioned that within the first yr, he made them; in 1978, he made solely 15.

Now, within the days main as much as Jan. 6, 200 have been made at his new retailer in San Antonio.

He says making the roscas and serving to to unfold the custom to different new generations is like “leaving a legacy.”

“For me, it’s one thing particular to depart one thing from our roots to share what this present day means,” Ramiro mentioned.

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