buchteln

Definitions

Sweet rolls made of enriched yeast dough, filled with powidl, jam, chocolate, ground poppyseeds or quark, brushed with butter and baked in a large pan so that they stick together and can be pulled apart.

plural, plural-only

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Examples

“Turn⟳ out the buchteln onto a wire rack, place⟳ another rack on top of them, and carefully invert together so they are right side up.”

“On a recent Friday morning, in the small, bright Cambridge apartment she shares with [David] Krejci, Schersch is making buchteln, rich, tender buns enclosing a filling of apricot jam. […] Properly made, as Schersch’s surely are, buchteln are crusty on the outside, light⟳ and fluffy inside, and not overly sweet.”

“Sit⟳ and enjoy⟳ the people-watching, and on Friday nights try⟳ the homemade buchteln: sugar-dusted splits filled with plum jam.”

“When Mrs. [Josefine] Hawelka died a couple of weeks after Pope John Paul II, locals suspected the pontiff wanted her much-loved buchteln (marmalade-filled doughnuts) in heaven.”

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