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Pan de muerto

"bread of the dead"

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pahn deh MWERยทtoh

Built from

Spanish panbread+deof+muertodead person

What Pan de muerto means

Pan de muerto is a Mexican bread name of Spanish origin meaning "bread of the dead". It is built from Spanish pan (bread) and de (of) and muerto (dead person). It is pronounced pahn deh MWER-toh, and it is most associated with the whole country.

Baked for Dรญa de Muertos. The strips on top are commonly read as bones and the central knob as a skull or a teardrop; that reading is living tradition rather than something recorded in colonial sources.

This is a site about what Mexican words mean, so there is no recipe here. For the name itself: Mexican pan dulce is named by shape, and the names are pure visual poetry: concha (shell), oreja (ear), cuernito (little horn), ojo de buey (ox eye), corbata (necktie), puerquito (little pig), bigote (moustache).

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Pan de muerto means bread of the dead

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