Hot herbal tonic · Poured from street carts
Emoliente
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It began in colonial times as a medicinal tisane, and in Lima it became so common that practically every street corner had an emoliente vendor.
A hot drink of toasted barley boiled with flaxseed, horsetail, alfalfa, plantain leaf (llantén) and boldo, sweetened and finished with lime, ladled from emolientero carts in the morning and evening.
Why it's made this way: The emolientero cart is a Lima street institution, where office workers, taxi drivers and homemakers gather each morning for a cup before work.
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