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Cooking

Each Aztec home had a hearth  where the fire burned. It had three stones around it.

On top of these stones rested the COMAL.

The comal was a flat disc of hard clay. It was heated by the fire beneath. When the comal was hot  it was ready to use for cooking. Here the woman is making tlaxcallis on it.

They had several different kinds of pots - small ones to eat their meals from and big ones for storing water and soaking the corn. Some of the pots were black because they had been used for cooking.

Notice the baby's crib in the background.

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