Meaning of baranka | Babel Free

Definitions

A traditional Russian dough ring, somewhat smaller than a bublik, but also thinner and drier.

Examples

“How comical we should have looked on a country road in old England, as we jogged along, almost buried in our cushions, with our eggs in our fingers and the salt in a paper receptacle; and ever and anon stretching out our arms at full length for the baranki, which depended in graceful festoons over our heads!”

“I had bought some barankas—dry Russian biscuits—en route.”

“Outside the baker’s shop, beside his printed name—printed name, by the way, often quite unintelligible to himself—is a very lively picture of white loaves and rolls, biscuits, krendels, baranki, cakes.”

“Soviet machines used in making Russian national food, such as delicious patties stuffed with meat, fruit or cottage cheese, pelmeni, dumplings, boubliks and barankas, are popular in many countries. Soviet sorts of baranka-type articles, such as sushkas, can be kept for many months without going stale.”

“He had received a food parcel earlier, and so he ate only butter and ring-shaped rolls, baranki, and he quit eating black bread a week before his strike.”

“Huge samovars are kept on the boil and there are boubliks and barankas (thick, ring-shaped rolls).”

“We drop our eyes, mumble something inarticulate, add more tea to each other’s glasses, and nibble barankas.”

“We have a monopoly in Kiev on barankas and diabetic bread roll items.”

“It is quite a job baking boubliks and barankas because the dough has to be well-mixed and thick and totally free of air bubbles.”

“Tea is drunk with various different accompaniments such as rolls, barankas (a dry, ring-shaped roll) or pryaniks (spice cakes), which are specially produced to be taken with tea.”

“As a child I was often hungry and hunger made me impatient. If my mother was very late with cooking, she gave us a common flour-based snack, bubliki, baranki, sushki, suhariki or pryaniki. It was only in retrospect that I realised that all these traditional Eastern-European snacks were a variation of dried bread. When she handed out one of the treats, she said that they were meant to “kill the worm” (“zamarit chervichka” in Russian). At that time, I interpreted this literally, as I didn’t know that this was an expression that meant “to have a small bite before a proper meal”.”

“People like sushki and baranki because they are cheap and taste good.”

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