We love homemade tamales & just this past year I used the recipe from this site. I love Whippoorwill Holler. They are homesteaders & she has so many good recipes. When I made my tamales I cooked my pork in the slow cooker the day before & also made all my red sauce the day before. I was able to get 42 tamales out of a 7 lb. pork butt roast. I would suggest getting one of those little masa spreaders. They make spreading the masa so much easier & even.
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