Horno
A mud adobe oven used by Native Americans and early settlers.
It was introduced to the Iberian Peninsula by the Moors and carried to Spanish-occupied lands. The oven is fired with wood, and after the fire burns down, the embers are removed before inserting bread, or doused with water for steam-cooking corn. Meats are cooked at approximately 650 °F with the smoke hole and door sealed with mud.
Quick Facts
- Shape
- beehive
- Material
- mud adobe
- Cooking temperature for meats
- approximately 650 °F
- Etymology
- from Latin furnus; Spanish for 'oven' or 'furnace'
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