salep

Tacca starch or Otaheite187 salep; from the tubers of tacca oceanica.

Called also salep, and salop; it was a greasy-looking beverage, sold much on stalls in the early morning.

Salep, sal′ep, n. the dried tubers of Orchis mascula: the food prepared from it.

Red Port wine was now given more freely in his medicated water; and his nourishment consisted of sago and salep.

If too much salep is added, it gives its peculiar flavour to the bread.