peach paletas

It's an al sur del la frontera thing, the cognitive is "wooden palate" for the popsicle stick. Whereas Americans would use sweetened juice for their popsicles Central America uses real fruit for their paletas and berries, often exotic, some vegetables, odd combinations you would not think could go together, but do, horchata made with ground almonds, rice, barley, sesame seeds, tiger nuts (chufa sedge, yellow nutsedge, nut grass, earth almond). This book, Paletas: Authentic Recipes for Mexican Ice Pops, Shaved Ice & Aguas Frescas is #1 bestseller, I just now noticed. You will want to have the real popsicle mold kit, not a junk plastic one with reusable plastic handles, no, those types are for babies, you want paletas, real wood sticks, or else it's just, pfft, no fun at all, plus you can buy 1,000 popsicle sticks for extra wood stick related projects, say, make a castle with its own jet airplane.

I don't think of them that much but I noticed an odd pattern arise suddenly from countries south of us.

They're looking at this.

I have this book. It's small as far as books go. Only 108 pages with a lot of photographs. The raspados (shaved ice) look delicious and so do the aquas frescas (refreshing drinks) but let's look at the paletas described in the book.

Strawberry

Blackberry

Cantaloupe

Watermelon

Grapefruit 

Avocado

Lime

Apricot-Chamomile

Hibiscus-Raspberry

Spicy Pineapple

Mezcal-Orange

Spiced Tomato-Tequila

Sour Cream, Cherry, and Tequila

Yogurt with Berries

roasted Banana

Passion Fruit Cream

Lime Pie

Quick Coconut

Fresh Coconut

Pecan

Mexican Chocolate

Mexican Eggnog

Caramel

Rice Pudding

¡Cómo imaginativa! Mi mente es soplado. My mind is blown. But wait, what? No mango, no papaya, no apple, no kiwi, no tamarind, no vanilla, no cherry, no pear, no quince. I expect the author expects us to have the idea after 25 examples. They mostly follow the exact same formula, the best ingredients you can find, sweetness adjusted with cane sugar keeping in mind that sugar tastes less sweet when cold and the pops will not freeze with too much sugar. Lemon or lime juice, water, pinch of salt. That's it. Some use milk. 

I think I'll try chocolate malt.