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Chronological dating is based on the 19th century. The pastry tradition was initiated by Carmen Hernandez, of La Orotava, in a family of confectioners who were called the Bakers. It was he who transmitted the trade to her husband Vicente, a native of Los Realejos, and their children. The husband, as a child, worked at La Orotava on a farm known as El Montijo, a nickname that he later passed to the family, although that of the Bakers was the most popular. Over the years they taught the trade to their sixteen children, who worked side by side with their parents, some of whom even opened their own bakeries. Famous were their meat pies, donuts, puff pastries, gingerbreads, etc. .. I stopped producing in the eighties. In 2013 a monument was inaugurated in commemoration of the second centenary of the beginning of the work of this family, in the town of Los Realejos. It shows some of the daughters in different facets of work.
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