Turrón de Doña Pepa (Mrs. Pepa nougat)
Posted in Desserts & Bakery on May 23rd, 2008
Josefa Marmanillo, best known as Doña Peña, was a black slave in Cañete Valley (Ica, south of Lima). She was liberated due to a paralysis in her arms, and as she couldn’t work, she traveled to Lima and went to the Señor de los Milagros procession to ask him a cure. After she had received [...]
