pillaw

Spread me a couch here, and bring me supper here: a jar of Persian wine well cooled, a lamb stuffed with pistachio-nuts, a pillaw of a couple of turkeys, a curried kid — anything.

Burlesques 2006

These being removed, we dipped hands in Biryani, a meat pillaw, abounding in clarified butter; Kimah, finely chopped meat;

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

Fruits were then placed upon the table; plates full of pomegranate grains and dates of the finest flavour. 16 The dinner concluded with a pillaw of rice and butter, for the easier discussion of which we were provided with carved wooden spoons.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

On gala days he would have us in to dine with him, when he would regale us with lobscouse and salmagundi, or perhaps with an outland dish, a pillaw or olla podrida, or fish broiled after the fashion of the Azores, for he had a famous trick of cooking, and could produce the delicacies of all nations.

Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

The Tymor and his friends ate pillaw; they esteemed "samboyses" and

The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

The Tymor and his friends ate pillaw; they esteemed "samboyses" and "musselbits"

Captain John Smith Charles Dudley Warner 1864

Spread me a couch here, and bring me supper here: a jar of Persian wine well cooled, a lamb stuffed with pistachio-nuts, a pillaw of a couple of turkeys, a curried kid — anything.

The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan 1838

Spread me a couch here, and bring me supper here: a jar of Persian wine well cooled, a lamb stuffed with pistachio-nuts, a pillaw of a couple of turkeys, a curried kid -- anything.

Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

This genial banquet was entirely composed of sea-dishes; a huge pillaw, consisting of a large piece of beef sliced, a couple of fowls, and half a peck of rice, smoked in the middle of the board: a dish of hard fish, swimming in oil, appeared at each end; the sides being furnished with a mess of that savoury composition known by the name of lub’s-course, and a plate of salmagundy.

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004