strucla

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noun

A Polish poppy seed bread.

Scrabble 9

Meanings

nounstrucla (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA Polish poppy seed bread.

    Amy found a bag of poppy seeds and wants to make strucla, a kind of bread.

    1999 April 25, Betsy Carson, “Writer’s first book a raging success”, in The Herald-Sun, final edition, Durham, N.C.: Durham Herald Co., →OCLC, page G5, column 3
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    Whether it's lefsa, strucla, challah or kugelhopf, it's all a variation on a theme—a time to go all out and bake that really fancy bread.

    1996 December 22, Good Food Store, “Holiday Baking”, in Missoulian, Missoula, Mont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A15, column 4

    Sharing, in the case of this family, practices from the homeland. Sewing together, preparing for weddings, providing strength through the hard times. The church. And, yes, time-honored recipes. Strucla. Poppy seed cake.

    1998 December 27, Shirley P. Blackwell, “Enjoyable ‘Pears on a Willow Tree’ is novel of ‘cultural tussle’”, in Sun Journal, New Bern, N.C.: Freedom Communications, →OCLC, page C2, column 1

    The dishes are, […] strucla (poppy seed roll), a welcome addition to any Polish meal. […] Strucla, a poppy seed rolled cake, will be made March 19, […]

    2004 February 2, Pati LaLonde, “Polish Palate Pleasers”, in The Bay City Times, volume 131, number 33, Bay City, Mich.: Booth Newspapers, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 4A–5A

    > Can anybody recommend what's worth trying from their local East European > stores? The rye breads definitely, sauerkraut, dried mushrooms and pickles. Makowiec (poppy seed cake), strucla and mazurek (other cakes) and assorted pastries, plum jam (powidla, with a stroke through the 'l'), or other jams.

    2009 February 11, Arri London, “East European Food”, in uk.food+drink.misc (Usenet)

Origin

  1. Polishstrucla
  2. Englishstrucla

Unadapted borrowing from Polish strucla.

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