Crossword-Solution: BACALAO 7 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

With an appreciative and glowing eye, Miss Brewster read from her mimeographed bill of fare such legends as “_ropa con carne_,” “_bacalao secco_,” “_enchiladas_,” and meantime devoured _chechenaca_, which, had it been translated into its just and simple English of “hash,” she would not have given to her cat.

The slaves are fed with tasajo (meat dried in the sun) of Buenos Ayres and Caracas; salt-fish (bacalao) when the tasajo is too dear; and vegetables (viandas) such as pumpkins, munatos, batatas, and maize.

Fish, I think you said, abound in those waters? Bacalao--er--that is cod, is it not? Now it seems to me that our men of Bristol can go a-fishing on those banks without interference from the Hanse merchants, and we shall be less dependent on--foreign aid, for the victualing of our tables.

Estas horas se aumentaron considerablemente desde hacía algunos años, no sin que se resintiese por ello el bacalao.

Hake-fish salted and dried, as well as dried stock-fish, and bad _bacalao_, or cod, equally cheap and coarse.