KITCHEN MISADVENTURE SERIES 12: Polvoron ala Lucy

Today, my daughter and I shared another bonding moment when we made polvoron using a recipe from Lucy Torres-Gomez which I read in an old newspaper entry( I just forgot when???) The recipe called for the following ingredients (which we were lucky to have on hand) – ½ c toasted flour, ½ c skimmed milk (in lieu of Birch Tree which I understand Lucy is endorsing), 2/3 c white sugar, ½ c unsalted butter.

My daughter just watched and asked a myriad of questions while I was toasting the flour, then she helped measure out the sugar and milk and in mixing in the butter. But what was truly fun for both of us was the molding and wrapping process – we used pretty red Japanese paper to wrap the 23 pieces we were able to make…well, some of them got eaten even before they got wrapped! Which is why our plans to sell sana our polvoron went pfft! The resulting polvoron was so good so we just decided to eat them all!!! Next time we vowed to double the ingredients and take note of the cost of the items we bought (well, because the flour and the sugar was already on hand, I couldn’t recall how much they cost!) so that even after we’ve had our fill of this very delectable dessert, we’d still have something left over to sell…