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Yet whether these efforts consisted of informal discussions of family historyneighbors passing a hot afternoon in the shade, for instance, reminiscing about their grandparents between swallows of homemade mahewu (maize beer) or public debates about clan genealogy, private resumption of sacrificial offerings at ancestral burial grounds or organized revival of communal customs such as the rites of vukanyi season, men's quest for the past differed from women's in several important ways.

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· In 1981 the following foods had been produced on an industrial or semiindustrial scale: ogi, garri, palm wine, mahewu, and sorghum

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It is the major difference in separating ogi and mahewu which are otherwise similar products.

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This concentrated mahewu can then be adjusted to the normal solids content at the place where it is to be consumed merely by mixing it with the requisite amount of water.

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No technical problems arise in the spray or the roller drying of mahewu (8 per cent solids) if it is homogeneous.

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Drying in circulating hot air tray driers has the disadvantage that the layer of mahewu must be broken by mechanical means during the process, drying is slow and the mahewu becomes brown even if the temperature is kept at 50 degrees Centigrade.

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Ordinary double drum driers such as those used for milk powder cannot be used on a highly concentrated mahewu.

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The fermented mahewu is mixed with defatted soybean meal, sugar, whey or buttermilk powder and yeast.

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Mahewu powder prepared from spontaneously soured mahewu has an unsatisfactory flavour and the shelf life of the powder is very limited (two days).

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Owing to the high viscosity of concentrated mahewu, 25 per cent solids was the highest concentration which could be dried on the laboratory spray driers.

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