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On Nov 6, 1:37 pm, Tracy > wrote:
> So is it some kind of barley bread?
> Just a wild guess.
>
> Or it might just mean bread crumbs. Another quick google of "amathi"
> = sand.
>
> -Tracy
> (likes to google)


And you're damn good at it. Thanks. I suspect that paxamathi are bread
crumbs made from slowly-baked (very dry bread). In English the dried
bread is called rusk which comes from the Dutch. That's got to be the
word I'm looking for.