Palatschinken, Haluska, Frankfurter (Baedeker, 1911)

Mon May 6 17:06:00 UTC 2002

On Sat, 4 May 2002 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

> AUSTRIA-HUNGARY
> WITH EXCURSIONS TO CETINJE, BELGRADE, AND BUCHAREST
> HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS
> by Karl Baedeker
> Leipzig
> 1911
>
> Pg. 563 (Bucharest):
..._Ciorba_, a kind of sour soup, made with lamb or chicken

Probably the Rumanian spelling for the Turkish "chorba" = "soup" in
general. Redhouse dictionary lists the origin as Persian, "shurba" =
"broth, soup, gruel" (Steingass)

allen
maberry at u.washington.edu