Kibbe/Cubby (1846)

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TRAVELS OF LADY HESTER STANHOPE:
FORMING THE COMPLETION OF HER MEMOIRS.
Narrated by HER PHYSICIAN.
in three volumes
London: Henry Colburn
1846

   Merriam-Webster has about 1930.  OED is still drafting an entry, I suppose.  This beats my previous kibbe/kibbeh/kibbi/kibbee from the 1870s.

VOLUME ONE
Pg. 206:  The reader may be curious to know what these delicacies were,  From one it was a dish of rolled vone leaves, containing minced meat.  From another, kusas (known in England as the vegetable-marrow) stuffed with rice and minced meat.  From the third, a lamb roasted whole.  From the fourth, an immense dish of boiled rice, surrounding and covering four boiled chickens.  Besides these, there was the pilaw of the country, with morsels of meat stirred up among it.  All this made but a homely supper, yet is it the best that the culinary art of the temperate Arab is capable of furnishing.
Pg. 338:  Which was created first, the egg or the hen?
Pg. 348:  *Hadj Aly assured me that his wife, who was a Metoualy woman, made no scruple of eating raw meat; and that, when mincing mutton to make a _farce_ called _cubby_, she often are so much as to spoil her dinner.  It is plain that th Israelites did the same.  Exodus ix. 12.: "Eat not of it raw."

VOLUME TWO
Pg. 109:  After coffee, a platter of what the Arabs call _dibs_ was set on the ground, with about a dozen bread-cakes like those before described.  This dibs is the scum of boiled grapes, in French _raisine_, and has much the taste and appearance of treacle; it is a favourite dish with all the Arabs.
Pg. 145:  They feed very grossly, but less so than the Bedouins: husked wheat, raisins, dibs, eggs, and sometimes rice, are their common dishes.  They set pounded wheat to stew in a small-mouthed pipkin, or in a covered jar, and all night, and then eat of it: this they call burma.  They make _kubby_ by pounding together husked wheat and mince mutton, or goats' flesh, in a mortar: this they mould into hollow spheres, and boil or fry.
Pg. 320:  Occasionally, a pedlar selling soap, kadamy, or parched peas, and a little halawy or sweetmeat, would pass through, crying his wares....

VOLUME THREE
Pg. 12:  The cuby (or dumplings), which have been mentioned in setting out on this journey, were now becomes so dry and hard that the servants and muleteers refused to eat them.
Pg. 45:  His dinner was laid out on a mat, on the floor of a room which we passed, and consisted of six or eight messes of pilau and yakhny, which are boiled rice and a stew of small bits of meat and vegetables, and these in dishes of common queen's-ware.
Pg. 248:  All these are articles of trade with Syria; but the bulk of the cargo was rice: besides which, the sailors had filled every nook and space with baskets or parched peas, called _hammas_, (which are as much sought after by the common people throughout Turkey as Barcelona nuts are in England), and with linen and cotton cloths.
Pg. 330:  *The melinjan is a vegetable of a pear shape and of a deep lilac colour, as large as a bon-chretien pear, called in French _aubergine_.