pinolatl.

Headword: 
pinolatl.
Principal English Translation: 

a beverage made from chia seeds and maize (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
pinolɑːtɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

pinolatl. beuida de mayz y chia tostado.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 82r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

no ivi mexica mocecencaoa tlatlaqua, aatli pinolatl quiy = and the Mexica likewise readied themselves and ate and drunk; they drank a maize and chia beverage.
(Mexico City, sixteenth century)
James Lockhart, We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico, Repertorium Columbianum v. 1 (Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1993), 172.
This term entered Spanish as pinole.

"Chia is a member of the sage family, whose seeds were used extensively for food."
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), 141, note 14.

themes: 
Beverages
Corn, Maize