The sea-provision of these fishermen consisted of nothing more than a cask of water, and a bag of Cassada flour, which they called Farinha de Pao, or wooden flour, which indeed is a name which very well suits its taste and appearance.
There is nothing very peculiar in her manners at table, excepting that she eats farinha with her eggs at breakfast and her fish at dinner, instead of bread, and smokes a segar after each meal; but she is very temperate.
I preferred the dish of farinha moistened with broth, not unlike brose, which was presented along with the bouillie and sliced saussage after the soup.
One night my servant woke me three or four hours before sunrise, by calling out that the rats were robbing the farinha baskets--the article at that time being scarce and dear.
We had brought with us a bag of farinha and a cup containing a lemon, a dozen or two of fiery red peppers, and a few spoonsful of salt.
The provision made for the dearth of the wet season is by this time pretty nearly exhausted; fish is difficult to procure and many of the less provident inhabitants have become reduced to a diet of fruits and farinha porridge.
A confused pile of rocks, on which many a vessel heavily laden with farinha has been wrecked, extends at the season of low water from the foot of a high bluff far into the stream.
At this time, nothing was being done at the plantations; the cacao and tobacco crops were not ripe; weeding time was over; and the only work on foot was the preparation of a little farinha by the women.
A little distance from the house were the open sheds under which the farinha for the use of the establishment was manufactured.
At first I was inclined to discredit the stories of their entering habitations and carrying off grain by grain the farinha or mandioca meal, the bread of the poorer classes of Brazil.
They carry with them all the farinha they can scrape together, this being the only article of food necessary to provide.
A spotless white cloth was laid on the mat, with a plate for each guest and a pile of fragrant, newly-made farinha by the side of it.
This, which was ready soon after I entered, consisted of boiled fowls and rice, seasoned with large green peppers and lemon juice, and piles of new, fragrant farinha and raw bananas.
It is best mixed with farinha seca and sugar, and eaten with a spoon.
The cook, who was nothing but a sick rubber-worker, had spoiled the principal part of the meal by disregarding the juices of the meat, and cooking it without salt, besides mixing the inevitable farinha with everything.
For our supper we gave the dried pirarucu flesh a boil and soaked some farinha in water, eating this tasteless repast with as much gusto as we would if it had been roast beef.
Most of the time was spent eating, walking around the malocas, looking at dugouts, and at the farinha plants.
A typical, well provided table on the Amazon would afford dryfarinha in the first place.
Over the legumes he poured farinha in the Brazilian fashion.
Tim rumbled something, solaced himself with a cigarette, then squatted and joined the others in their frugal breakfast of coffee and chibeh--a handful of farinhamixed with water in a gourd.
Had he not talked about the monkey, probably no one would have objected to the meat, which did look very nice; but Ellen and Arthur both begged to have some of the birds, with the addition of some roasted plantains and farinha cakes.
Arthur said he was hungry; and Duppo showed that he was by taking out a cake of farinha and some dried meat from his bag.
Our stock of provisions was almost exhausted; all our luxuries except coffee had come to an end, and of that we had very little, while we had only a small supply of farinha remaining.
They made signs that they had brought a present of farinha to the young white lady, as they designated Ellen; not by words, however, but by putting a piece of white bark on their own brown cheeks.
Duppo had followed our example, having brought his bag of farinha on shore.
This substitute for bread is as common among the inhabitants here as is the farinha de Pao, or mandioca, among the people of Rio de Janeiro, S.
We had only a little more farinha given us, and dirty water; indeed, it was very evident that the blacks were treating us as we should have treated them if they had been made slaves of.
When we were landed a little farinha was given us, and we were ordered to march forward, followed by a dozen guards or more.
The strong raw hides were ripped up as though slashed with a sharp knife, and the bags of beans and farinha were freely streaming their contents on the ground from innumerable rippings from the keen sharp tusks.
One night my servant woke me three or four times before sunrise by calling out that the rats were robbing the farinha baskets.
At the ferry of Maria Farinha there was a large company, which was stationed there.
The river Maria Farinha is that which runs up to Jaguaribe; its mouth is wide, and the bar will admit of craft of some size; but the port cannot be considered as being worthy of attention.
The flour which is made from this root is called farinha de pao, or stick flour[174].
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "farinha" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
