Note 293 — HISTORY OF WHAT BEFEL THE FOWL-LET WITH THE FOWLER.
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
“Harísah” = meat-pudding. In Al-Hariri (Ass. xix.) where he enumerates the several kinds of dishes with their metonomies it is called the “Mother of Strengthening” (or Restoration) because it contains wheat—“the Strengthener” (as opposed to barley and holcus). So the “Mother of Hospitality” is the Sikbáj, the Persian Sikbá, so entitled because it is the principal dish set before guests and was held to be royal food. (Chenery, pp. 218, 457). For the latter see infra.