Meaning of kreplekh | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Examples

““Only Russian Cafe in St. Louis / My Grandma’s recipes for Borsht, Piroshki, Kreplekh, and home made pastries.” Ibids […] only / Russian Cafe / in St. Louis […] Borsht - Piroshki - Kreplekh”

“Daniel was pacing in front of the stove. Mama was rolling out dough for kreplekh, trying to ignore⟳ him.”

“There should be dairy dishes, cheese kreplekh. Secular Jews like⟳ fine food just as much as religious Jews.”

“The extrusive details scattered throughout the book without comment⟳ about material goods, clothes, places, and the like⟳ are valuable precisely because they are unremarked: their unquestioned acceptance by the reader (or more precisely the reader’s presumed unquestioned acceptance on the writer’s part) may suggest⟳ these items’ circulation within social discourse.⁵³”

““The stories remind⟳ us of the wide range of dairy dishes,” [Ben] Katchor writes. “The potato knishes, the milkhiker borscht, the cheese kreplekh, the varnishkes, the pirogen, blintzes, buttermilk, and for dessert pudding and poppy cakes — the food of a Jew’s pastoral dream⟳.””

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