Meaning of bulochka | Babel Free

Definitions

A soft, sweet bread roll, often filled with sweet or savory ingredients, popular in Russian and Eastern European cuisine and often enjoyed as snacks or desserts.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“Kasha, holoubtsi, kissel, bulochki! It’s not a college yell but a part of the menu the University Club will serve Tuesday evening, April 11, when Ukrainian night is observed there.”

“There she was confronted with dozens of kinds of loaves and rolls from the soft, mealy black bread that is Russia’s traditional staff of life to beautiful bulochki or rolls made with cake flour and cinnamon and raisens^([sic]) and nuts.”

“Her ladyship was reduced to the pitiable choice of yesterday’s croissants or one of the nine different kinds of rolls, milk breads, sweet breads, scones, pancakes, vatrushki, kalachi, ponchiki, rogaliki and bulochki whose delicious, new-baked smell was wafting all over the house.”

“And we’ve got our Guardian agents at work spotting the best hamburgers and cherry sodas in town. Good homemade ice cream. The last word in piroshki and bulochka with macom.”

“Titles like “Tender Bulochky” from Wroxton, Saskatchewan, “Plain Krendli” and “Crackling Korzhiyky” — both specialties of North Battleford, Saskatchewan — reflect something of the nature and style of the Ukrainian communities that are spread across the western provinces.”

“Other breads include bulochky, plain or rich rolls, pyrohy, yeast-raised rolls or short pastry dainties with sweet or savory filling in a standard oblong shape tapering at the ends.”

“CINNAMON BULOCHKI / Kaldor/Joffe / These are really sweet rolls rather than cakes”

“NATASHA, You Will Always Be My Little Bulochka V.”

“The idea for rye scones comes from a Russian recipe for ‘Rye Bulochki’, which are yeast-raised rolls with a texture somewhere between bread and scone.”

“Katya would go into the bread shop. […] There were different shapes and varieties. […] Every kind of bread! […] And the many kinds of bulochki. […] And she always bought Vera a sweet bulochka as well.”

“On one expedition we were very lucky with our transaction: a peasant at one of the stalls was selling bulochky (traditional Russian breadrolls) and another sold us fine apples and strawberries.”

“But at night when they came to see me in the Ural, when they had knocked back huge amounts of Kunzevskaya and Stolichnaya and devoured piles of piroshki, oladyi, vatrushki, and bulochki with zimmes, they spoke French, English, kissed hands and paid compliments, knew the wittiest toasts, and fiddled their Russian souls inside out in order to dance on the most crooked roofs of the most Eastern shtetl at dawn. […] Everybody has longings, I said. Shit, I said, is this guy ever going to finish with the Zionist platitudes? Stuffed my mouth with bulochki and knocked back the vodka, and didn’t challenge the Israeli when he explained that longing was a German emotion; […]”

“Breakfast pastries are a special treat — when they’re good, they’re very good. A few of my personal favorites: 1 SCONES AT CONCORD TEACAKES […] 5 BULOCHKA AT BAZAAR INTERNATIONAL This Brookline Russian gourmet market makes its own yeasted pastries, with three fillings: poppy seed, farmer’s cheese, and sour cherry.”

“Lunch: beefaroni or chili mac, garden salad with croutons, assorted dressing, whole-wheat bulochky, fruit cup.”

“Plain or stuffed bulochki can be served either as snack or appetizer. […] Using the soft pastry brush, totally brush each risen bulochka (mini roll) with it.”

“He [Timothy Post] has exchanged Red Sox Nation for the Black Earth region, Newbury Street for Ulitsa Krasnaya, bagels at Baker’s Best in Newton Highlands for bulochki in this southern Russian city that bestrides the country’s breadbasket.”

“Volodya, his government-appointed driver who usually ferries him across town without comment, has offered him coffee, poppyseed bulochky that some old babusias are selling inside the station and, in desperation to get Stefko to relax, his own pack of cigarettes.”

“Kusher Bakery specializes in Ukrainian breads including, […] poppy seed strudel, caramel cookies (walnut-shaped), bulochka and rogalik.”

“Afsona, at 300 Tamiami Trail North, Naples, will be open for breakfast through May 15. From 7 a.m.-2 p.m., options include homemade beef blinis, poached eggs and bulochka.”

“She radiated health and the kind of ripe beauty that Daria often compared to a sugar bun. ‘Pretty like a bulochka,’ she would say admiringly whenever we passed tall, plump, blonde women.”

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