Crossword-Solution: COMAL 5 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Phlegmatic, even comal, and most difficult to move in most things, yet any 'interference' wakes up the dormant spirit which that Prince of Orange so forcibly expressed when he said, in response to a prudent soldier's ear of consequences if resistance were persisted in, 'We can at least die in the last ditch.' Until one understands this tenacity in the Dutch character one cannot reconcile the old world methods seen all over the country with the advanced ideas expressed in conversation, books, and newspapers.

They then take some of this paste, and clap it between their hands till they form it into light round cakes, which are afterwards toasted on a smooth plate, called the _comalli_ (_comal_ they call it in Mexico), and which ought to be eaten as hot as possible.

This is kept covered by a _comal_, or a smaller _olla_, and a good hot fire of coals is kept burning within.

The _tortilla_ stone and _comal_, red earthen ollas, calabash cups, bedsteads and benches of the _cana vaquera_, a whirligig spindle, an old stringless _jarana_ or bandolon, with other like effects, lay in fragments upon the floor.

Nothing remained but to fling it on the hot surface of the comal, let it lie but for an instant, then turn it, and in a moment more it was ready for eating.