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Updated: May 11, 2025
Even while it is dripping from the tipiti into the vessel placed below, great care is always taken lest children or other animals should drink of it. There were no beds such things are hardly to be found in any part of tropical America at least not in the low hot countries. To sleep in a bed in these climates is far from being pleasant.
The roots of the yucca, or manioc plant, grow in bunches like potatoes. Some of them are oblong the length of a man's arm and more than twenty pounds in weight. When required for use, the bark is scraped off, and they are grated down. They are then put into the tipiti, already mentioned; and the bag is hung up to a strong pin, while the lever is passed through the loop at the bottom.
The pulp is next dried in an oven, and becomes the famous "cassava" or "farinha," which, throughout the greater part of South America, is the only bread that is used. The juice, of course, runs through the wicker-work of the tipiti into a vessel below, and there produces a sediment, which is the well-known "tapioca."
The roots of the yucca, or manioc plant, grow in bunches like potatoes. Some of them are oblong the length of a man's arm and more than twenty pounds in weight. When required for use, the bark is scraped off, and they are grated down. They are then put into the tipiti, already mentioned; and the bag is hung up to a strong pin, while the lever is passed through the loop at the bottom.
It was a sort of conical bag, woven out of palm-fibre, with a loop at the bottom, through which loop a strong pole was passed, that acted as a lever when the article was in use. This wicker-work bag was the "tipiti." Its use was to compress the grated pulp of the manioc roots, so as to separate the juice from it, and thus make "cassava."
Even while it is dripping from the tipiti into the vessel placed below, great care is always taken lest children or other animals should drink of it. There were no beds such things are hardly to be found in any part of tropical America at least not in the low hot countries. To sleep in a bed in these climates is far from being pleasant.
The pulp is next dried in an oven, and becomes the famous "cassava" or "farinha," which, throughout the greater part of South America, is the only bread that is used. The juice of course runs through the wickerwork of the tipiti into a vessel below, and there produces a sediment, which is the well-known "tapioca."
It was a sort of conical bag, woven out of palm-fibre, with a loop at the bottom, through which loop a strong pole was passed, that acted as a lever when the article was in use. This wicker-work bag was the "tipiti." Its use was to compress the grated pulp of the manioc roots, so as to separate the juice from it, and thus make "cassava."
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