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Cauim (Tupinambá chewed manioc or maize beer)cauim
Cauim is the chewed root or maize beer of the Tupinambá, described by Jean de Léry in 1578. Women boiled sliced manioc roots, chewed them so that saliva would turn the starch to sugar, boiled the mass again and poured it unstrained into great earthen jars to ferment. It was thick, cloudy and sour like soured milk, and was drunk warm at feasts that could last three days. Made in 5 steps over 2 days. The longest step, pour unstrained into great jars and ferment, takes 2 days (Chacón Mayorga G.A 2021). Lactobacillus pentosus and L. plantarum, dominant throughout modern Tapirapé cassava cauim and Lactobacillus fermentum, L. paracasei and L. brevis, with yeasts Pichia guilliermondii, Kluyveromyces lactis, Candida and Saccharomyces cerevisiae do most of the fermenting.
No fixed amounts recordedNo fixed amounts. Léry saw more than thirty great jars, each said to hold more than sixty Paris pints, lined up for one feast.
Manioc (aipim and maniot) roots, or maize · Sliced as thin as turnips for the pot[lery1578]
Saliva of the women who chew the roots · Its amylase turns cooked starch into sugar[lery1578][chacon2021]
Starter: other: salivary amylase from chewing; microbes from the jars and the surroundings
Total time across the recorded steps: 2 days
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What changes:Thin slices of manioc root boil in water until soft
Step 1 of 5
Slice and boil the roots
Time
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Temperature
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Salt
None given
Acidity
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Which microbes the steps name, step by step
Lactic acid bacteria
Yeasts
Boiled until tender, then taken off the fire and left to cool a little. Output: soft, cooked root slices.
Flavour
Not documented
Texture
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Colour
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Microbes at work in this step
Not documented for this step.
Method
Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source
What makes this one different
Cauim relies on chewing instead of a mould starter or malt. The roots are boiled twice and never strained, so the beer is thick, and it was drunk warm rather than cool.
Maize cauim (ayati)Made from maize, boiled and chewed the same way.
Tapirapé cauim (modern)Cassava soaked in running water for 3–4 days, peeled, sun-dried, grated and cooked; the cooled puree is started with chewed sweet potato juice and fermented about 48 h; also made from rice, maize, peanuts, pumpkin or cotton seed, and given to small children.
CaxiriPurple cassava beer of the Juruna (Yudjá), drunk up to 120 h after making.
Safety
Modern cauim sours quickly, from pH 5.5 to 3.4 in one study, but Bacillus cereus was among the bacteria isolated from it.
Hazards the sources name: Bacillus cereus, isolated from modern cassava cauim.
Jean de Léry described cauim among the Tupinambá in his 1578 book. He saw men drink for three days and nights without eating, and compared the women's chewing to French vintners treading grapes with their feet.