What is Tareco?

In Brazilian cuisine, Tareco is a hard biscuit that is eaten as a snack with coffee or appetizer before meals. It can also be used to prepare various desserts. These types of biscuits are very popular in Brazil and Brazilians even had poems and songs written about Tareco biscuits. It is quite easy to produce and preparation usually takes only an hour or less. Basic ingredients used to produce these types of biscuits are corn flour or wheat flour, eggs, vanilla and sugar; Cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg can also be used. The mixture is processed in a blender and then beaten until a well knit dough is formed. Apoté dough pieces have separated and are shaped into small, round and flat disks that are arranged in separate lines on the previous greased and floured baking tray. Furthermore, the discs are baked in the oven for up to ten minutes. Then they are removed, rotated and inserted back into the oven to cool; Biscuits claim how they cool down.

Hard Tareco Brazilian biscuits were probably evolved from hard biscuits; Such biscuits were the basis of food in British and Spanish naval fleets at the age of survey. At that time, people needed to have food that could be stored or preserved for a long time without cushion, and also had to survive any gross treatment and transport. It was not realistic to take fresh food for very long cruises at a time when the storage device was somewhat insufficient. The use of biscuits made of wheat or corn flour was more comfortable and reliable.

Because the biscuits are a flesh softening, as aged, biscuits must be very hard for long cruises. Generally, they went through two baking processes and sometimes they were even baked up to four times. Harden biscuits could then be safely stored in food barrels for up to a year or more. The biscuits were usually immersed in water, hairy, soups or alcohol to make them changeCZK.