2014, Justin Marozzi, Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood, Penguin UK (→ISBN), quoting and translating an elegy by Ishak al Mosuli:
Eating it on a cold winter day is far more beneficial than eating sikbaja.
2020, Ben Wilson, Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention, Doubleday (→ISBN):
A Baghdad speciality, sikbaja was a sweet and sour meat or fish stew cooked in vinegar, honey, dried fruit and spices, and garnished with spicy sausages; ...
1871, Ibn Khallikān, Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary, page 114:
(7) The sikbaja was a dish prepared with barley-meal, minced meat and vinegar.
