Salami

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HUNGARY AND TRANSYLVANIA:
WITH REMARKS ON THEIR CONDITION,
SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND ECONOMICAL
by John Paget
Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard
1850

VOLUME TWO
Pg. 294:
   ...we always took care to start with a good loaf of bread and a bottle of wine, besides some raw bacon and salami, which, although not the most elegant of viands, were exceedingly palatable to hungry travellers.
(...)
   It is a most villanous affair, red, tough, and tasteless, and not to be compared to an honest Magyar _gulyas has_, or _paprika hendel_.

(OED has 1852 for "salami"--ed.)