A whole stuffed camel or Camalambakicken is a satirical folklore dish consisting of a camel, which is engastrated with a sheep or a lamb, then stuffed with other ingredients.Dutch, Jennifer Rachel. “Not Just for Laughs: Parody Recipes in Four Community Cookbooks.” Western Folklore 77, no. 3/4 (2018): 249–76. .)
Reference to this recipe is made in the comedic novel I Served the King of England,Hrabal, Brohumil. I Served THE KING OF ENGLAND. Picador, 1990, pp. 108-114. first published in 1971 by Czech author Bohumil Hrabal as a traditional Ethiopian dish cooked for a visit to Prague by the Emperor Haile Selassie. The novel Water Music by T. Coraghessan Boyle contains a recipe for camel stuffed with dates, plover eggs, carp, seasoned bustards, and sheep, baked for two days on hot coals in a trench.
Remastered CD versions of the Pink Floyd album Atom Heart Mother contain a card of "Breakfast Tips". On one side is a recipe for a "Traditional Bedouin Wedding Feast", detailing the stuffing of a chicken inside of a lamb, which is stuffed inside a goat, which is then stuffed inside a camel, and cooked over a charcoal fire.
See also List of stuffed dishes Turducken
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