sosatien.

1833 Cape of Good Hope Lit. Gaz. 2 Sept. 138 Sasaitie, or cabobs, is really no despicable eating.

1870 Cape Monthly Mag. Oct. 224 ‘Sosaartjes’, ‘smoor-picklaar’, and all sorts of vegetable ‘breedies’, are importations from India.

1883 O. Schreiner Story Afr. Farm ii. iv. 67 I got the Hottentot girl to show me how to make ‘sar-sarties’ this morning.

1885 L. H. Meurant Sixty Years Ago 29 There existed in those days what we termed ‘Sasaatje and Rice’ houses, places where a favourite Dutch dish called ‘Sasaatjes’ was served in the evenings…two sassaatjes (diamond-shaped inch-sized pieces of mutton, curried and about half a dozen stuck upon a bamboo skewer, and then roasted upon a gridiron).

1894 Cape Argus 22 Dec. A Hittite..with a long spear and a very pronounced intention to spit you on it, like a sassatje.

a1920 O. Schreiner From Man to Man (1926) ii. ix. 318 For dinner and supper she made sosatie and bobotie.

1939 S. Cloete Watch for Dawn xxi. 310 A woman had so much to do with food. Sassaties, bobotee, snysels.

1948 H. V. Morton In Search of S. Afr. 293 Sosaties..are a popular and delicious grill which can be as simple as veal or mutton cutlets sprinkled with curry powder and roasted on a skewer over a clear wood fire, or as complex as pieces of mutton or pork soaked in wine or vinegar, spiced with coriander, turmeric, pepper, tamarind and grilled in the same way.

1953 Cape Times 21 Mar. 3/3 These [South African recipes] are destined for Holland, where they will be needed to prepare braaivleis and sasaties when the South African volkspele team visits Culemborg and holds a braaivleisaand there.

1973 Farmer's Weekly (S. Afr.) 25 Apr. At a braaivleis the sosaties are eaten straight from the grill.