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Glossary entry

Portuguese term or phrase:

x.p.t.o.

English translation:

an additional and special ingredient

Added to glossary by Mark Robertson
Feb 21, 2020 17:20
4 yrs ago
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Portuguese term

x.p.t.o.

Portuguese to English Other Cooking / Culinary breadmaking
This is listed as an ingredient in a recipe for Tosta Rainha crispbreads. The recipe reads: "104 quilos de farinha, 12 quilos de açucar, 1 quilos de sal refinado, 800grs de fermento, 250grs de manteiga, 10 duzias de ovos, 5grs de x.p.t.o, 20 litros de agua".

Apart from the generic meaning of "an excellent thing", what can this mean in a recipe? Does anyone have any idea? Googling the term plus "receita" does not show it as an ingredient.
Proposed translations (English)
4 an additional and special ingredient
4 Acme
3 love for cooking
3 any type of spice
1 secret ingredient
References
Ciberduvidas explanation
Change log

Feb 28, 2020 13:38: Mark Robertson changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/8025">lexical's</a> old entry - "x.p.t.o."" to ""an additional and special ingredient""

Discussion

lexical (asker) Feb 28, 2020:
reporting back Unfortunately, the client (who is not the writer of the recipe) didn't know what it meant either, so I have chosen the answer that makes most sense to me. Thank you to everyone whocontributed.
lexical (asker) Feb 25, 2020:
@all answerers Just so you know, I have passed all your answers to the client. When I have their reply I'll report back.
Douglas Bissell Feb 21, 2020:
xpto the term xpto is an abbreviation of 'export' which used to mean 'high quality', so in this case it probably means 'love and affection'
5 grammes of love and affection, a pinch of good love?

Proposed translations

1 day 18 hrs
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an additional and special ingredient

Quando dizemos que algo é "XPTO" queremos, normalmente, dizer que algo é muito bom. Esta expressão vem de documentos medievais manuscritos, onde se usava a sigla XPTO para designar Cristo, que, por sua vez, já era uma herança de grafia grega muito comum na Idade Média (XPISTI). As pessoas não percebiam que aqueles símbolos significavam Cristo em grego e liam "XPTO" quando queriam designar alguma coisa de qualidade excelente, divina ou magnífica.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=XPTO

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.P.T.O.
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thank you. Mark. I think this comes the nearest to the sense. The term is from an industrial recipe, so it's possible that they had an ingredient which they did not want to disclose, but of which they knew the name in the factory."
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love for cooking

104 quilos de farinha, 12 quilos de açucar, 1 quilos de sal refinado, 800grs de fermento, 250grs de manteiga, 10 duzias de ovos, 5 grams of love for cooking, 20 litros de agua".

5 grammes of anything will have little of no effect on more than 110 kilos of flour and salt. It may be a joke or just say food needs a pinch of je ne sai quoi
Note from asker:
Douglas, you comment that 5 grams of anything will have little of no effect on more than 110 kilos of flour and salt is well taken. Thanks.
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1 hr

secret ingredient

Is this an actual recipe, or is the author deliberately trying to keep acertain ingredient secret?

Na Fábrica de Biscoitos Paupério, o segredo não está só na massa. Está também na dose de XPTO que está presente no processo de fabrico. O “ingrediente”, na quantidade de 100 gramas, consta da receita de bolo-rei, escrita pela mão de Mamede Figueira, neto de um dos fundadores da empresa, e que o PÚBLICO teve oportunidade de visionar.
https://www.publico.pt/2018/08/14/economia/noticia/a-diferen...
Note from asker:
Ana, this is an actual (industrial) recipe, but it's possible that this particular ingredient is a trade secret. I intend to ask the client tomorrow.
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2 hrs

any type of spice

see link
Reference:

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.P.T.O.

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5 hrs

Acme

Acme
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33 mins
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Ciberduvidas explanation

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