khalva

We were thus obliged to enter into an agreement to eat by turns a little of every dish, and we thought this would have succeeded, till we were at last overcome by a regular course of Khalva, a preparation of honey, flour of almonds, and oil, sent up in every state; […]

1823, William Gell, Narrative of a Journey in the Morea, London: […] [F]or Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […] by A[ndrew] & R[obert] Spottiswoode, […], →OCLC, page 82

Khalva is made of flour, sugar and butter, or in some cases mutton tallow, rank and strong, made from the tails of the Camaran sheep.

1887 September 3, Olive Harper [pseudonym; Ellen Burrell D’Apery], “Some Turkish Dishes. […]”, in Omaha Daily World, volume 3, number 10, Omaha, Neb., →OCLC, page 7, column 3

Strelka (Little Arrow) and Belka (Squirrel) ate eagerly shortly after their capsule landed following its 17 trips around the earth, the Soviet news agency Tass said. It added that the space pooches preferred the sweetmeat khalva to the sausages also offered them.

1960 August 22, “Cosmic Zoo Back in Fine Condition, Russians Report”, in The Gazette, 183rd year, Montreal, Que., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 2

He jogged his memory by smoking a pipe with a two-inch portion of a cigar screwed into the bowl and by munching khalva, an orental^([sic]) pastry.

1961 April 26, “From Russian Cossack to Christian Scholar: Professor Recalls Turns on Trail of Adventure”, in The Minneapolis Star, volume LXXXIII, number 130, Minneapolis, Minn., →OCLC, page 18C, column 3

“Try this, it’s like candy,” said an Uzbek boy selling chunks of white khalva from a canvas sack. He deposited each purchase in an old newspaper shaped into a cone.

1979 August 28, Jim Gallagher, “Capitalism survives in Soviet Asia mart”, in Chicago Tribune, 132nd year, number 240, Chicago, Ill., →ISSN, →OCLC, section 1, page 4, column 1