Re: sleighing..!!!

Paul schrieb:

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And now that we are on the subject of cuisine, could someone tell me
what it was that Oliver Goldsmith had in mind when in "The School for
Scandal" he described the "Naabob from Calcutta coming home with
"crackers and sweetmeet" from India?
Did he refer to 'Samosas' by the word 'crackers'? The context is such
that I cannot think he took 'fireworks' home.

I suspect that the "cracker" referred to may be "a dry thin crispy baked bread product that may be leavened or unleavened" (as it says in the Merriaqm Webster On-Line Dictionary) rather than the firework- type cracker. I remember with some pleasure eating cream crackers with butter and cheese before I came to Germany - I also loved to eat them plain when I was a child.

Of course samosas are also have a crispy covering made from flour, but all those I've eaten also had a filling.

Regards, Einde O'Callaghan
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