dolman.
/ˈdəʊlmə/ A Turkish dish of several ingredients (see quots.). Widespread in various Eastern European countries. Plural forms reflect local variations.
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stuffed vine leaves1939
laulau1940
sarmale1945
1889 Cent. Dict. Dolma, a Turkish dish made of vine-leaves, egg-plant, gourds, etc., stuffed with rice and chopped meat.
1935 ‘Countess Morphy’ Recipes All Nations 767 The dolmas..consists of uncooked mutton finely chopped with kidney fat, a little soaked bread, and sometimes uncooked rice, the whole highly seasoned and spiced. A teaspoon of the mixture is wrapped in either a blanched vine leaf, fig leaf, or cabbage leaf, and these are placed in a saucepan and braised.
1954 D. Dodge Lights of Skaro i. 17 A wooden tub full of dolmas, cool in their wrapping of pickled vine leaves.
1962 ‘W. Haggard’ Unquiet Sleep iv. 29 The delicacies craved by the Attic palate even in London—halva, foul medames, anari cheese, dolmades rolled in vine leaves, tinned.
1962 Listener 24 May 931/1 Among these you are certain to find dolmathes—vine leaves stuffed with various mixtures..and served in a tomato, or egg and lemon, sauce.
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