quispina

English

Etymology

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Noun

quispina (uncountable)

1. A coarse bread made from quinoa
   • 1908, C. D. Mackellar, A Pleasure Pilgrim in South America, London, J. Murray, page 291:

     The Indians also boil the seeds of the quinua for food, and eat the leaves, and the grain boiled, and ground down, is made into hard little lumps, and is then called quispina.

   • 1993, R. Macrae, Richard Kenneth Robinson, Michèle J. Sadler, Encyclopaedia of Food Science, Food Technology, and Nutrition, →ISBN:

     Cooking has also been reported to remove 'kispina'

   • 1993, Michael S. Pitzrick, Iron-deficiency Anemia in a Population of Rural Aymara Preschool-age Children Residing in the Bolivian Highlands:

     Corn starch, bread and quispina are probably undesirable as weaning foods: corn starch because it is used with water as a milk substitute and has an extremely low nutrient density; bread and quispina because they are difficult to masticate, even when soaked in water.

Anagrams

• Pasquini