Meanings
- uncountableA type of ice cream made with vanilla, cream, eggs, and sugar.
[W]arm plombir drops drip on the pavement, on her bag and shoes.
2016, Anna Nemzer, translated by Ronan Quinn, “Trigger”, in Prisoner, London: Glagoslav Publications Ltd, →ISBN4 more examples
There are two dessert choices, baklava and plombir, a creamy almond ice.
1983, Alena Lasley, Paul Lasley, Frommer’s 1983-84 Guide to San Francisco, New York, N.Y.: Frommer/Pasmantier Publishers, →ISBN, page 57There were Russian hors d’oeuvres of black caviar, a roasted pheasant as an entrée, and cream plombir for dessert.
1999, Muse Norcross Kotenev, “Father Writes Books”, in Through the MOONgate, Lincoln, Neb.: toExcel Press, iUniverse.com, Inc., →ISBN, page 77For desserts there were “airy pie,” charlottes, mousses, kissel, plombir and “zephyrs.”
2003, Valentina Antonievna Seletzky, “The Evgoschino Interlude”, in Mosaic: A Child’s Recollections of the Russian Revolution, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, Inc., →ISBNYou can also use silicone baking molds or silicone ice cube trays, which allow the plombir to be easily popped out after freezing.
2017, Bonnie Frumkin Morales with Deena Prichep, “Plombir with Black Currant Tea Milk Caramel”, in Kachka: A Return to Russian Cooking, New York, N.Y.: Flatiron Books, →ISBN
Origin
- Frenchplombières“ice cream made with almond extract, kirsch, and candied fruit”
- Russianпломби́р
- Englishplombir
From Russian пломби́р (plombír), from French plombières (“ice cream made with almond extract, kirsch, and candied fruit”), possibly after the commune of Plombières-les-Bains.
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