The pot containing the gel was then removed from the heat
source and the gel transferred to a wooden plate whose surface
had a thin layer of finger millet meal. The finger millet meal
prevents the thickened gel from sticking to the surfaces of the
plate. The gel was allowed to cool to ambient temperature
which was 25 °C and weighed in portions ranging from120 to
188 g to make a total mass of 615.64 g. The procedure was
repeated four more times to produce 3,000 g of gel. The mass
of gel was transferred to a polyethene board on which finger millet meal had been spread to form a thin layer. More finger
millet meal was added to the gel while mixing and rolling on
the board. The gel was levelled to a thin sheet using a wooden
rolling pin.More finger millet meal was added to the board to
prevent the gel from sticking to the surface of the board and
rolling pin. When a sheet of thickness of 3 mm was formed,
biscuit like units were moulded using a plastic cup of 57 mm
diameter. The biscuit like units called zvambwa were placed
on wooden plates on which finger millet meal had been spread
to prevent the products from sticking to the surfaces of the
plates. The surfaces of zvambwa units were smeared with
spared syrup of Parinari curatellifolia fruit using a pastry
food brush. Samples of zvambwa are illustrated in Fig. 2
below: