mamaligan.

1808 P. B. Campenhausen Trav. Russ. Empire in Coll. Mod. & Contemp. Voy. VIII. 54 The daily food of the peasants in Moldavia and Bessarabia, consists of a dish made of meal mixed with butter, fat, or milk, which is called Mammaliga. Such of them as are at their ease, make this dish more palatable by mixing balls of boiled millet with it, and it is then called Malay.

1878 J. W. Ozanne Three Years in Roumania 121 Maize forms the staple food of the lower classes. Every day a portion is boiled for the use of the family. It is called mamaliga, and is usually eaten alone; a little milk or a piece of salt fish being, however, sometimes added.

1897 B. Stoker Dracula i. 2 I had for breakfast more paprika, and a sort of porridge of maize flour which they said was ‘mamaliga’.

1925 J. A. Hammerton Countries of World V. 3425/1 The peasants live for the most part on mamaliga.

1970 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 12 Sept. 107/3 In Rumania, unfermented grape juice or must is sold at wooden stalls..with slices of hot mamaliga, the national dish of cornmeal mush.

1982 L. Chamberlain Food & Cooking of Russia (1983) 178 To their native kashas Russians have this century introduced southern preparations of cornmeal, the most popular of which is mamalyga.