Beiju
A beiju is a small cake made from manioc or tapioca flour that comes from northeastern Brazil . During its production, the naturally sweet flour is simply moistened and baked in the oven.
This Brazilian cuisine cake is a legacy of Brazilian indigenous culinary art.
literature
- Gilberto Freyre: The Masters and the Slaves . University of California Press 1986, ISBN 0520056655 , pp. 127–128, 468 ( excerpt from Google book search)
Web links
Commons : Beiju - collection of images
- Photo of a Beiju variant
- Beiju on brasilieninfo.ch