Dolma rice based filling. Egyptians call this main course mahshi (also spelled mashi or mashy). It is stuffed vine leaves but traditionally, cabbage is used in the winter and vine leaves are used in the summer. According to Anthony Khatchaturian, a member of the Armenian community in Kolkata, India, the Bengali dish "potoler dorma" (stuffed gourd) was adapted from meat-stuffed vine leaves. "Mülebbes dolma" is a historic recipe from the Ottoman era. "Halep dolması"—named for Aleppo—is a dish of eggplants stuffed with a meat and rice filling that is flavored with spices and either sour plum flavoring syrup or lemon juice.
Stuffed chine when it presents attractively contrasting stripes of pink and green. Food writer Jane Grigson gave a recipe in "The Observer" in March 1984. The poet Paul Verlaine, who in the mid-1870s spent a year as a schoolmaster just north of Boston, liked stuffed chine so much that he tried unsuccessfully to find it elsewhere in England. In 1936 the "Sunderland Daily Echo" reported that chine was a traditional dish served on Trinity Sunday in Old Clee, north-east Lincolnshire. Stuffed chine Stuffed chine is a traditional dish of salt pork filled with herbs, typically parsley, associated with the English county of