This chapter is actually pretty happy, for once (for the most part). Rosaura and Pedro are expecting their first child, and for months during the pregnancy, Tita has harbored feelings of resentment to Pedro and believes he had lied in the first place when he told her he loved her. The time comes for Rosaura to deliver the baby, but everyone in the family has left for town to get preparations for the baby. This leaves Tita alone with Rosaura as she goes into labor... to make a long story short, Tita is forced to deliver the baby, Roberto, alone. Due to complications from the labor, Rosaura is left unable to feed Roberto, she is produce any breast milk. One day, while trying to comfort Robert while he was hungry and crying, Tita discovers that she has begun to produce breast milk and she is able to feed Roberto herself. This becomes an unexplained secret between her and Pedro, no one knows how Roberto is being fed, all they know is he is being fed and Tita is the one somehow feeding him.
This chapter also centers around preparations for Roberto's baptismal ceremony. Tita is working to make a meal of Turkey mole with almonds and sesame seeds. Tita's mole that she made, gave all the guests who ate it a sense of euphoria and hope...all except for Mama Elena. Mama Elena was so focused on revealing the secret 'love language' between Tita and Pedro, that she did not eat any of the mole, and she was concocting a plan to separate the two of them.
Nothing seems to be going right for Tita. She loves Pedro, but is unable to express her love for him, nor can he for her. She is under the constant control and suspicious gaze of Mama Elena.
I was actually able to make the recipe for this chapter! I made a couple modifications to it, however. I used chicken instead of turke :) It was delicious and was very easy to make! I will post a picture of it on the blog with this post.
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