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PILAU

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 603 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PILAU  , a favourite Eastern dish, consisting essentially of

rice, boiled with mutton or other
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meat, fowl or fish, and flavoured with spices, raisins, &c . The word appears in Persian,
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Turkish and
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Urdu, and has been adopted in
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European
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languages . The form pilaff, showing the Turkish pronunciation, is also
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common .

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