Meaning of Borodinsky bread | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A dark brown sourdough rye bread of Russian origin, traditionally sweetened with molasses and flavored with coriander and caraway seeds.
   uncountable
2. Alternative letter-case form of Borodinsky bread.
   alt-of, uncountable

Examples

“Bread is outstanding, ranging from crusty white to dark rye. One popular variety is Borodinsky bread, which can be purchased at bakeries on the Arbat in the old section of Moscow.”

“[B]lack treacly Borodinsky bread with coriander seeds, stewed courgettes from the garden dressed in oil and garlic, cooked meat,[…]: we were eating all afternoon.”

“She took two thick slices of Borodinsky bread, plastered them with butter, piled them with caviar, and pressed them into a doorstep sandwich.”

“Sasha mixed a little smetana with acacia honey and spooned it on to borodinsky''' bread, pungent with rye.”

“Sedmoi Kontinent supermarkets offer probably the best borodinsky bread in town and great Ciabatta bread, both plain and with onions and herbs.”

“But it’s not just Red Square that has teased my senses – there have been so many ‘flavours’ in Moscow I’m about to explode – the taste of honey-and-pepper vodka, the feel of caviar popping in my mouth, the grumbling of fat babushkas, the smell of freshly baked borodinsky''' bread, the sight of strapping young soldiers goose-stepping at the gates of the Kremlin.”

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