picanties

Updated: May 2, 2025

Numbers of people who appeared to have nothing to do sauntered about or sat on logs. In odd corners were native women engaged in making the picanties upon which the poor largely exist; these were composed of fresh and salt meat, potatoes, crabs, the juice of bitter oranges, lard, salt, and an abundance of pepper pods. "That is the sort of thing we shall have to eat, Bertie."

G. A. (George Alfred) Henty - The Treasure of the Incas