Street Bakery & Postres
Jericalla in Los Angeles
Look for chilled individual glass cups of silky vanilla-cinnamon custard crowned with deeply browned, caramelized scorched patches at Imperial Night Market in Downtown LA on Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings, when a vendor is serving it. Free entry.
Also known as: jericaya
2300 E 15th St, Downtown LA · Free entry
CATEGORY
Street Bakery & Postres
ORIGIN
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
PREPARATION
Spiced milk and egg custard baked until the top develops charred spots.
MARKET
Imperial Night Market, Downtown LA
HERITAGE
The origins of Jericalla
Jericalla is the signature baked custard of Guadalajara, Jalisco. A popular nineteenth-century tradition attributes its creation to Catholic nuns caring for orphaned children at the Hospicio Cabañas in Guadalajara, naming the confection after Jérica.
Tender baked custard with silky wobbleInfused with fragrant cinnamon and vanillaBaked gently in an oven water bath