sentences:  Although the first recipes for pasteles didn’t appear in cookbooks until the 1930s, food historian Cruz Miguel Ortíz Cuadra notes that pasteles were mentioned as early as 1843 in the book "El aguinaldo puertorriqueño", which explored Puerto Rican Christmas traditions.The authors point to pasteles as an example of how Puerto Rican Christmas food was different than that of the Spanish.The origins of pasteles, however, can be traced back several centuries to Spanish colonial times, before they became an essential Puerto Rican Christmas dish.