Molinillo: Traditional Mexican Hot Cocoa Frother
The molinillo is a traditional Mexican whisk used for making hot chocolate, atole and champurrado. This wooden whisk is used by holding it between two plams and rolling it back and forth.
Homesick Texan describes the molinillo:
The molinillo, which translates to blender, is a beautiful wooden tool; even the so-called simple ones are ornately carved. It’s a piece of pragmatic kitchen art that not only whips up a fantastic froth on your chocolate, but is also guaranteed to solicit queries from those unfamiliar with it.
Mexican hot chocolate and a molinillo
The molinillo is also the subject of a popular children’s song
Chocolate, molinillo, estirar, estirar
Que el demonio va a pasar.
Dicen que soy, que soy una cojita
Y si lo soy, lo soy de a mentiritas
Desde chiquitita me quedé, me quedé
Cojita, cojita, cojita de un pie
Me gusta la leche, me gusta el café
Pero más me gustan los ojos de usted.
Or in English:
Chocolate, stirrer, stretch, stretch,
For the devil’s going to pass by.
They say that I’m, that I’m lame,
And if I am, I am not for real.
Since I was little I’ve been, I’ve been
Lame, lame, lame on one foot.
I like milk, I like coffee,
But I like your eyes better.
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