Mote con Huesillo
This is a very tradicional dessert/snack. I wish it was a better picture but I couldn´t find any on the Internet. This description just doesn´t paint a good enough mental picture. It is called ¨mote con huesillo¨, which is dried peaches soaked in a light syrup and served over barley grain. In all reality the first time I tried this I thought the peaches looked like a small preserved brain, like the one you saw in your junior high science class that had been on the shelf since the 1930´s. Yeah, like that. Yuck! If you can just close your eyes and eat it it i s tolerable...not good, but bareable. The barley in the peach juice is an odd combination. I will always try something at least once. I have tried Mote and 1 time was enough.
Prior to the coming of the Spanish in the 16th century, northern Chile was under Inca rule while Araucanian Indians inhabited central and southern Chile; the latter were not completely subjugated until the early 1880s. Although Chile declared its ind... ... read more 
