buchteln
English
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Etymology
[edit]From German Buchteln, plural of Buchtel.
Noun
[edit]buchteln pl (plural only)
- 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.
- 2004 November 30, Wolfgang Puck, “Filled doughnuts offer great Hanukkah treat”, in Globe Gazette, Mason City, Ia., →ISSN, page C2, column 3:
- 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.
- 2015 October 21, Jane Dornbusch, “Austrian ambassador: Ursula Schersch, a journalist from Vienna, moved to Boston and discovered a cuisine worth writing back home about”, in The Boston Globe, volume 288, number 113, Boston, Mass., →ISSN, page G7, columns 2–3:
- 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.
- 2018 April 13, Jennifer Walker, “Take 5: Vienna coffeehouses”, in Evening Standard, London, →ISSN, page 51, column 1:
- Sit and enjoy the people-watching, and on Friday nights try the homemade buchteln: sugar-dusted splits filled with plum jam.
- 2024 April 7, Rick Steves, “Tasting high culture in Vienna”, in Honolulu Star-Advertiser, 143rd year, number 67, Honolulu, Haw., page D3, columns 1–2:
- 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.
