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18:01 Oct 29, 2009

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Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Cooking / Culinary

Spanish term or phrase: Chipaca

Hola, estoy haciendo una traducción sobre una empresa que refina grasa animal.
Necesitaría la traducción de chipaca o al menos saber cómo explicarían el término en inglés.

Usos: Facturas de grasa, bizcochos de grasa, pan criollo, chipacas, grisines y galletas.
Gracias

aaira
Argentina

Summary of answers provided

Bran cake

Lamarche

...Typical Chipaco (cake)...

eski

Tapioca

Kate Major

Summary of reference entries provided

Esto es una chipaca

Laureana Pavon

Discussion entries: 2

Answers

4 mins confidence:

Bran cake

Explanation:
From Argentina.

Lamarche
United States
Local time: 23:54
Native speaker of:

Spanish

28 mins confidence:

Tapioca

Explanation:
It's a variety of tapioca. You could put "chipaca" in italics followed by "(tapioca)".
HTH

Tapioca
Varieties of tapioca called chip and chipaca spread throughout Southern cone due to internal migrations. In late 80's the tapioca plantation was reduced and ...
keralas.s3.amazonaws.com/tapioca - Cached - Similar -

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Note added at 1 hr (2009-10-29 19:57:50 GMT)
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Oup: Laureana that should read "not just the name of a plant" sorry. I am thinking of the ingredient, which comes in many forms including flour, pearls... Saludos.

Kate Major
Spain
Local time: 05:24
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 106

2 hrs confidence:

...Typical Chipaco (cake)...

Explanation:
A typical chipaco, traditional plate of the Argentine north. Chipaco or chipaca is a cake species, done with the same mass with which the bread with grease ...
kiwidepia.com/kiwi/Yy9oL2kvQ2hpcGFjbw== - En caché - Similares
Hi aaira;
I would use "Typical Chipaco" with an explanation in brackets; just a suggestion.

Saludos!
eski :))

eski
Mexico
Local time: 22:24
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 113

Reference comments

1 hr peer agreement (net): +2

Reference: Esto es una chipaca

Reference information:
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipaco

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Note added at 2 hrs (2009-10-29 20:05:02 GMT)
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Typically, "chipacas" are made of wheat flour.

Laureana Pavon
Uruguay
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