Puláo ( "pilaff") of rice and meat, sheep or goat, the only provisions that poor Midian can afford, accompanied by onions and garlic, which are eaten like apples, washed down with bon ordinaire; followed by cheese when we have it, and ending with tea or coffee. ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)
[FN#618] Meats are rarely coloured in modern days; but Persian cooks are great adepts in staining rice for the "Puláo (which we call after its Turkish corruption" pilaff "): it sometimes appears in rainbow-colours, red, yellow and blue; and in India is covered with gold and silver leaf. ❋ Anonymous (1855)
Hasn't he been craving blood, or at least black pudding pilaff? ❋ Unknown (2011)
Sig Other muttered about the post and pointed out that when I asked for pilaff one xmas, he made it likewise when I wanted roulade, he made that. ❋ Jes (2008)
The description for the Faisan a la creme was roasted pheasant served with a rich champagne cream sauce, grapes macerated with orange zest, a savoury rice pilaff and a croustade of duck pate with red currant jelly, based on Lasserre and La Tour d'Argent restaurants, in Paris. ❋ Niki (2005)
Roasted pheasant served with a rich champagne cream sauce, grapes macerated with orange zest, a savoury rice pilaff, and a croustade of duck pate with red currant jelly ❋ Niki (2005)
The Turks mix nuts with their pilaff of rice and the Armenians add nuts to their baalghoor, a dish prepared from wheat which has been cooked and dried. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The supper at the very best will consist of hot millet or barley cakes, and the savory pilaff of minced mutton and millet or rice. ❋ John Milton Mackie (N/A)
At sunset, which is the universal dinner time in the east, I went to dine with the Governor Mohammed 'Abdu'l Hadi; it was a miserable degrading scene of gorging the pilaff with the hands and squeezing the butter of it through the fingers, without even water for drink supplied by the servants. ❋ James Finn (N/A)
The ceremony was concluded by shouts of welcome, and a huge meal of pilaff (rice and mutton upon a great tray of tinned copper) and leban, ❋ James Finn (N/A)
But even now the 'Adwan cannot come near the town; neither can they quite forget that the Saltiyeh people, during a former war, killed both the father and grandfather of Deab, and sent the head of the former to the tribe in a dish, with a pilaff of rice. ❋ James Finn (N/A)
On this particular evening Logotheti dined at home alone, chiefly on a very simple Greek pilaff, Turkish preserved rose leaves and cream cheese, which might strike a Parisian as strange fare, unless he were a gourmet of the very highest order. ❋ Horace T. [Illustrator] Carpenter (1881)
But mutton and onions and pilaff are the staple of their consumption. ❋ Unknown (1881)
There is pilaff and kebabi and a bottle of champagne. ❋ Unknown (1881)
It so happened that amongst the many dishes which were served up to us was a fine pilaff, [FN#259] of which I, according to the custom in our city, began to eat with a spoon; but she, in lieu of it pulled out an ear pick from her pocket and therewith fell to picking up the rice and ate it grain by grain. ❋ Anonymous (1855)
A good pilaff was more acceptable than some partridges dressed with oil and honey: but all Easterns are temperate, and travel teaches abstinence to the Franks. ❋ Benjamin Disraeli (1842)
The fare consisted mostly of varieties of fowl, with a pilaff of rice, in the Turkish manner, all decidedly good; but the wine rather sweet and muddy. ❋ Andrew Archibald Paton (1842)
The north has a strong Moghul influence; the food has a definite Persian feel, as in the celebrated biryani, which edges close to pilaff territory. ❋ Unknown (2011)
