Valley woman carrying on grandmother's legacy with pan de leche recipe

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The smells of freshly baked breadstuff and cafesito greet you erstwhile visiting Rosa Sanchez's home.

It's wherever she perfects Carmelita's Pan Casero, oregon Abuelitas Pan, arsenic it each started with her grandmother's look for cookware de leche.

"A batch of the recipes were calved from that recipe," Sanchez said.

Her abuelita whitethorn not person written down the recipe, but the emotion that went into their clip making cookware de leche stayed with Rosa, thing she's passing connected to her children and theirs.

You tin bash a customized bid oregon bargain duplicate packs, singles oregon loaves. Top sellers are the cookware de leche, banana and a blessed mishap she calls "orange vacation bread."

"I thought this was banana batter -- I threw walnuts successful and it was orange," Sanchez said. "I don't similar to person thing spell to waste, truthful I added cranberries and it ended up being a hit."

You tin find the breadstuff astatine 51 locations, including state stations and convenience stores, successful 11 cities.

The archetypal -- Nayarit Grocery successful Mendota.

"At first, she was kinda iffy astir it," Sanchez said. "I thanked her and gave her a bread. Before I got to the car she came aft maine and was like, 'This is Carmelitas bread! How did you get this bread?'

It turns retired the proprietor was 1 of galore who would predominant Rosa's grandmother's location successful Mendota for a sensation of the original, decades ago.

Rosa built a lawsuit basal successful her hometown and surrounding Dos Palos and Firebaugh, allowing her to enactment herself done schoolhouse earlier going full-time to enactment her family.

Now she mentors younker wanting to get their commencement successful business, portion ever appreciating the abuelita who did that for her.

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