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From the Kitchen

Toasted Corn, Rice and Cinnamon.

Karina Carrillo

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Co-Owner and Head Chef

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1 min read

A tall glass of horchata, pale and creamy, with a straw, against a white painted wall.

Our horchata has no dairy in it at all, which surprises almost everyone who drinks it. The body comes from toasted corn.

Horchata at Más Masa is toasted corn, rice, cinnamon and lime, and nothing else. No milk, no cream, no condensed anything. People taste it and assume otherwise, which is the nicest compliment the recipe gets.

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This story is still in progress. When it lands it will go through the whole thing: why we toast the corn, how long it steeps, and why the lime at the end matters more than the sugar does.

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