For the tortillas are whizzing over the table now and round it just like boomerangs, and then the hostess's supply is exhausted.
They are a clean race, and the Mayan labourer on coming in from his work would not dream of squatting before his frugal evening meal of tortillas and beans till he has had a hot bath.
He has no love of work, and will spend the few dollars he has earned in a reckless spirit, as if he had millions: afterwards living on his tortillas till luck comes his way again.
They are a frugal race, and you were expected to throw the broken remains of yourtortillas into a pail provided for the purpose, though they do not appear again.
Tortillas and coffee, not always the latter, complete his meal.
Strung like onions, hundreds of tortillas hang festooned on strings round the shops, as if some huge type of yellow mushroom had been utilised for decoration.
The coffee is boiled, and, crouching round on their hams, the family drink it black and munch the coarsetortillas of yesterday's baking.
They had used the wild fruits in abundance, always economizing strictly with their tortillas and frijoles.
Another hundred yards and he saw crouched in an angle of the street an old woman who offered tortillas and frijoles for sale.
In the valleys Ned saw peons at work with a crooked stick as a plow, and once or twice they passed swarthy Aztec women cooking tortillas and frijoles in the open air.
Old men and old women sold sweets, hot coffee, and tortillas and frijoles, also hot, in the streets.
Benito greeted Ned with a grave salute, but said nothing until an hour later, when they sat by a fire outside the hut, eating the tortillas and frijoles which Juana had cooked for them.
They could also reckon upon further supplies from wild fruits, and perhaps more frijoles and tortillas from the people themselves.
I will take these, my mother," he said in Mexican, and leaning over he snatched up half a dozen gloriously hottortillas and frijoles.
When one side was browned the cake was turned, and as the whole process required but a few minutes we soon had a high tower of tortillas smoking on our little table.
The tortillas served for plates as well as napkins, and the whole family stood ready to wait on us, and watching our every movement with the most ludicrous interest and delight.
Rodrigo got some tortillas from a charcoal burner, and they lunched and rested within the forest's edge till dark.
They made tortillasof it for their men laboring in the hacienda fields, or on the hacienda coffee hills.
Don Esau was away at the hunting-grounds, while Don Jago was feasting on the best of tortillas and the finest Tacotitlan pulque, better no Count could have.
What would my brothers have done had they been thirsty and a-hungered, and had seen before them the skin of pulque, and the dish of tortillas and frijolos?
And tortillaswith fat chili for their food," chimed in a fourth.
In Mexican houses of the more opulent class, a woman-servant is kept for the sole purpose of preparing and baking the tortillas or maize cakes.
Here, as I sat in a fairly easy chair in the shaded corner of a barnyard among pigs, chickens, and turkeys while my tortillas were preparing, I got the first definite information as to the tramp before me.
The rain took to dripping through the mat roof, and as I turned back toward the first hut for the promised frijoles and tortillas the woman called to me to say she also could furnish me supper.
Bandit gangs were known to live in out-of-the-way corners of several mines, bringing their blankets and tortillas with them and making a business of stealing ore.
We ate two bowls of frijoles each, and many tortillas and chiles.
There was carne de carnero, tortillas and water, all for five cents.
The Laguneros maketortillas of flour obtained from an aquatic plant.
To make tortillas the maize paste is shaped into thin cakes with the palms of the hands and cooked upon a flat clay pan.
Beans, and tortillas of maize, with the inevitable chile for seasoning, and plantains or bananas are their chief food.
With this they make their tortillas and other compounds, both to eat and drink.
It was composed of a buffalo hump, a few potatoes, and maize tortillas baked on the ashes, the whole washed down with pulque.
When the gourd had gone the round several times, and the tortillas had disappeared, the newcomers lit their Indian pipes, and the Mexican rolled a papelito.
You may bake the tortillas on the iron griddle on the top of the stove or fry them in a pan, using a little shortening.
Mix to blend and then spread thetortillas with this mixture.
The best tortillas in Nicaragua were called tascalpachon.
The tamale is still a favorite dish, liketortillas and frijoles.
The poorer people had in each house a metate for grinding maize, and a few earthen dishes for cooking tortillas and frijoles.
Peter Martyr speaks of these tortillas as "bread made of Maizium.
A sauce was also made from it into which hot tortillas were dipped, and which formed a part of the seasoning in nearly every Nahua dish.
It would be difficult to name a book in any way treating of Mexico in which tortillasare not fully described.
The Indian rose and fetched a pail of goat's milk and some tortillas from the shack.
Presently he returned with a half-dozen tortillas wrapped up in an old newspaper.
How to Shape Tortillas Take piece of dough size of biscuit and press with hand into cake size of small pie plate, toast on top of stove moderately warm.
Here the children and their parents sit while they eat their simple meals of tortillas and black beans, and here they stretch themselves at night for sleep.
Besides these, there are the tortillas the Indian mothers make every day for their families.
An Indian woman was going along the trail by the river side with a basket of tortillas on her head, but she was wading in water up to her waist.
Coyote and the Tortillas Pima (Arizona) Once upon a time, a river rose very high and spread all over the land.
I should say that making tortillas was better than sitting in sloth while they are made for you!
She toasted fresh tortillasand poured the stew over them and brought the steaming dish to Porter.
Rhoda lunched on the tortillas to which Molly had clung through all the vicissitudes of flight.
Yonder is good water and I have tortillas and frijoles.
Kut-le refused the Mexican's offer of tortillas and the man sat down to enjoy their society.
She tossed the tortillas as Molly had taught her and baked them over the coals.
Captain Over, as he stood with Catalina at a booth on the platform buying substantial tortillas made of eggs, meat, and potatoes, repeated the conversation.
Thank God, a kind soul andtortillas full of beans and chili are never lacking," Anastasio Montanez said with a triumphant belch.
Indian-fashion, eating, a coarse earthenware plate in his right hand, three folded tortillas in the other.
Came a jailer with dry tortillas and water but no summons to appear before a magistrate.
On these daily visits she would draw her chair to the side of the great bed--she looked very small below the high buttress of the mattress--and while he quaffed his chicken broth and nibbled his flaky tortillas Benicia would talk.
Night came, with it three more tortillas and a bowl of carne seasoned with chili sufficient to burn the gullet of a bronze image.
Before he had gulped his coffee and tortillas the medicine man's eyes were roaming fearsomely and he whimpered snatches of sacerdotal songs as he rummaged in the pack for a wicker basket.
A man who desires to become a shaman must keep strictly to a diet of white tortillas and atole for five years.
The messengers were duly appointed, but it took them two days to prepare the tortillas they had to take along as provisions.
But--I should have to buy my fame at the price of living on tortillas and pinole and beans!
Then the meat and the tortillas are sacrificed in the following way: The shaman takes up from the ground the vessel in front of him, and lifts it three times toward heaven.
They served them in earthenware bowls with a couple of tortillas (corn cakes).
For several days the women of the household and their friends have been making tortillas and boiling beans and tamales (small quantities of unsalted ground corn, wrapped and boiled in corn-husks).
The size of the tortillas varies with the age of the person.
Opposite to this, on the west side of the place, was another altar, a smaller one, on which had been put some boiled pinole in potsherds, with tortillasand a basket of cherries.
These were employed in baking tortillas for the prisoners.
Tortillas had been baked in haste, and all the hens in the village were put in requisition to obtain eggs for the president and his officers.
We had a most amusing supper, some performing dexterously with penknives, and others using tortillas as forks.
In Mexico, tortillas and pulque are considered unfashionable, though both are to be met with occasionally, in some of the best old houses.
We breakfasted at the village of Ajuna, in a clean hut where they gave us quantities of tortillas and chile, baked by some very handsome tortilleras.
So little is necessary, when one can contentedly live on tortillas and chile, sleep on a mat, and dress in rags!
We stopped to breakfast at some huts called La Puerta de Chapultepec, where we got some tortillas from a halfcaste Indian, who was in great distress, because his wife had run off from him for the fourth time with "another gentleman!
Here we breakfasted in the little portico, which we preferred to the interior of the cottage, chiefly upon tortillas and boiled tejocotes, a fruit which grows in great abundance, and resembles a small apple.
Behind them on the croup each carried his provisions--a few strips of tasajo with some cold tortillas tied in a piece of buckskin.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tortillas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
