Kebab, Tomato Soup (Travels at Oxford, 1738)

[Laurence Horn]

At 4:16 AM -0500 3/18/02, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>
>Pg. 438:  ...they make a gatcha, or hodge-podge of flour, water,
>butter, and honey...

whence Safire's "Gatcha! Gang"

>
>Pg. 440:  The Moors have an herb called la halis, which, mingled
>with honey, they make up into balls as big as pistol bullets, and of
>these they swallow five or six at a time, which they find to procure
>appetite, further digestion, and to make frolick, amorous, and witty.
>
Sure sounds like something there'd be a market for these days if it
can do all that!