What Chilindrina means
Chilindrina is a Mexican bread name of Spanish origin meaning "trifle, small thing". It comes from Spanish chilindrina (a trifle, a trinket, a small joke). It is pronounced chee-leen-DREE-nah, and it is most associated with the whole country.
A concha-like roll rolled in crunchy sugar crumbs. The word for a trifle was also borrowed as the name of a famous Mexican television character, which is how most people outside bakeries know it.
This is a site about what Mexican words mean, so there is no recipe here. For the name itself: Mexican pan dulce is named by shape, and the names are pure visual poetry: concha (shell), oreja (ear), cuernito (little horn), ojo de buey (ox eye), corbata (necktie), puerquito (little pig), bigote (moustache).
