Pinole

noun

1. Meal made of ground corn or wheat and mesquite beans.
2. An aromatic powder used in Italy for making chocolate.
3. Maize (or, more rarely, wheat) dried, ground, and sometimes mixed with the flour of mesquitbeans, which are quite sweet: used somewhat extensively as an article of food on the borders of Mexico and California.
4. An aromatic powder used in Italy in the manufacture of chocolate.
5. Parched maize, ground, and mixed with sugar, etc. Mixed with water, it makes a nutritious beverage.