vzvar

His wife prepared the traditional Russian Christmas dishes: kutya, made of wheat and honey; vzvar, compote of dried fruit, and kavrishka, also a fruit dish.

1977 December 22, Donald Canter, “Christmas heritage: Russians here know Santa as Uncle Frost, a peasant”, in San Francisco Examiner, 113th year, number 167, San Francisco, Calif., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 1

In this recipe from her book, Darra Goldstein writes that trendy restaurants claim to have discovered onion jam but the Russians have known it for centuries as vzvar, a thick, sweet-and-sour vegetable comfit.

1997 March 5, Pat Dailey, “Winter weather no excuse to cut vegetable use cold”, in Corvallis Gazette-Times, 135th year, number 64, Corvallis, Ore., →ISSN, →OCLC, page C3, column 3

She remembers eating herring and drinking vodka and preparing such holiday foods as kutia, made from a^([sic]) wheat berries or rice, honey, raisins and poppy seeds, and vzvar, a compote of dried fruit.

1997 November 30, Helen Ganz Spiro, “Wish list ’97: The time of year to brighten eyes around the area”, in Tarrytown Daily News, Tarrytown, N.Y.: Gannett Suburban Newspapers, →OCLC, page 1C

You’ll see pools of kefir, sbiten, kvass, or vzvar in cavities of rocks, borscht and ukha swelling up in tree stumps, stuffed blintzes and pierogi mushrooming in flower clusters or out of tree bark or hanging from leaves, and cream-covered smetannik adorning trees like snow.

2024, Colleen Houck, “Beware of the Goat from Its Front Side, of the Horse from Its Back Side, and a Monk from Any Side”, in Tiger’s Tale, Ashland, Ore.: Blackstone Publishing, →ISBN