It was sweetened with the juice of yucca fruit.
The yucca plant is a desert lily which produces numerous creamy white flowers.
Innovative salads and hearty entrees make a full meal, but feel free to add a side of plantains, yucca, sautéed spinach or rice.
From the great juicy, leafless, branchless stalk of the yucca, soap is prepared, and strong fibres useful in making paper, rope and fabrics.
In the most arid regions there is a small growth of green in the rainy season, and a rich display of small wild-flowers, as well as the enormous flower clusters of the yucca, and blooms in pink and orange, crimson, yellow and scarlet of the giant cactus and its fellows.