Having spent three hours Saturday scrubbing and washing meat for menudo, she brought in her 76-year-old mother to approve how much of the different ingredients needed to go into the dish.

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Topete kept some of the key ingredients of her menudo secret but she did say that the recipe dates back over 100 years.

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