guayabe

( guayabe [gwajápe] < Tewa buwayabe 'paper bread')

   New Mexico and Texas: 1850. Blevins references this term as a cornbread made by Pueblo Indians. Carlisle glosses it as cake, or hot cake in New Mexico. Hendrickson says that the term was also used in the Southwest to refer to rolls of money because of their similarity in shape to the Pueblo Indian bread. The only Spanish source to reference this term is Cobos, who indicates that it is a sort of "waferlike bread made with blue cornmeal." He also notes that the bread is called piki by the Hopi Indians and hewe by the Zuni.