BREAD II 



removing the poisonous principle contained in the juice. 

 The meal, if well dried, will keep for a year. The root in 

 the green state does not keep good for long, Ijut will do 

 so if sliced and dried in the sun. 



Bammy cake is the name of a thick kind of cassava cake, 

 made in Jamaica. These cakes are made by gently heating 

 the meal on a flat, broad, round iron, called a baking-stone, 

 and then drying in the sun. They are eaten daily in 

 Tropical America, and, if cooked till they are brown, will 

 keep sweet and wholesome many months. 



The Bitter Mandioca does not become soft by boiling. 



The poisonous principle is hydrocyanic acid (prussicacid), 

 and the highest quantity found in any variety is O'OTGO 

 per cent. Hydrocyanic acid is very soluble in water, and 

 very volatile. 



Casareep, or (^siripe, a sauce or condiment made from 

 the juice, is in the highest esteem in Guiana, South 

 America, where it is employed to flavour almost every 

 dish, and is the basis of the favourite AYest Indian dish 

 called " pepperpot." Pepperpot consists of casareep with 

 peppers (chillies), and fish. Casareep is made by evapo- 

 rating and concentrating the Bitter Mandioca juice, and 

 combining with it various spices. The poisonous principle 

 of the juice is dissipated in the evaporation, so that although 

 the juice in the fresh state is readily fatal to life, the sauce 

 is perfectly safe and wholesome. It is also a powerful 

 antiseptic, and meat can by means of it be kept quite fresh 

 for a long time, even in a tropical climate. 



