rogalik

plural rogaliki

1. A crescent-shaped pastry that is popular in Poland and various other Eastern European countries.

   Senior center staff will provide babka (bread) and rogaliki (poppy seed and nut roll).

   2008 May 25, “Polka party will step off”, in Courier News, Somerville, N.J.: Gannett, page B-4, column 3

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   Her ladyship was reduced to the pitiable choice of yesterday’s croissants or one of the nine different kinds of rolls, milk breads, sweet breads, scones, pancakes, vatrushki, kalachi, ponchiki, rogaliki and bulochki whose delicious, new-baked smell was wafting all over the house.

   1967, Ira J. Morris, chapter III, in The Troika Belle, London: William Heinemann Ltd, page 16

   Among the recommended desserts are strudel, rogalik and flugen, a Romanian square of walnuts, raisins and honey.

   1989 June 18, Daniel Young, “I’ll Take-out Manhattan: From Russia, with picnic”, in Daily News, New York, N.Y., page M 3

   You can start all over next weekend at the Polish Festival at Falcon Hall at 20th Street and St. Louis Avenue. […] The pastry booth will have chrusciki and rogaliki.

   2004 September 5, Tom Uhlenbrock, “Fall feasts – come and get it”, in Sunday Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Mo., page T1

   Waiting to be savored are Elena Trujillo’s made-from-scratch honey cake, rogaliki filled with chocolate, and butter cookies, baked with farmer’s cheese.

   2006 April 5, Terri Dougherty, “New taste”, in The Post-Crescent, Appleton, Wis.: Gannett, page E-1, column 3

   Rogaliki is really just one taste of the holidays in my Russia. It is traditional to do a lot of baking.

   2006 November 29, Lyubov Vyazhevich, quotee, “A cookie-cutter celebration”, in Orlando Sentinel, Orlando, Fla.: Orlando Sentinel Communications Company, page E3, column 2