Atole - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/2 cup masa harina
5 cups milk
4 tablespoons brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon or 1 cinnamon stick, finely slivered
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Preparation

Put the Masa Harina in a bowl and whisk in the milk, little by little.
Pour the milk mixture into a pot and add the brown sugar and cinnamon.
Bring to a boil and simmer for 5 minutes, stirring constantly, to keep it from becoming lumpy.
Stir in the vanilla extract. Serve in mugs.
Variations:
Pineapple Atole.
Follow the basic recipe, but omit the cinnamon. After the mixture has thickened and has been removed from the heat, add 1 small can crushed pineapple, undrained.
Strawberry Atole.
Follow the basic recipe, but omit the cinnamon. After the mixture has thickened and has been removed from the heat, add 2 cups fresh strawberries that have been hulled, washed and crushed.