tinettes

Updated: May 26, 2025

Lawrence, and huge eels, thick as the arm of the fisher who drew them up from their rich river-beds. There were sacks of meal ground in the banal mills of the seigniories for the people's bread, but the old tinettes of yellow butter, the pride of the good wives of Beauport and Lauzon, were rarely to be seen, and commanded unheard-of prices.

William Kirby - The Golden Dog