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Uzvar is a Ukrainian dried-fruit drink, one of the two main dishes of the Christmas Eve Holy Supper, served beside kutia.
Skip to main content Part of our Heritage Kitchen Glossary – short guides to the ingredients and techniques behind Eastern European cooking. A biscuit named after its holiday Kūčiukai are small, hard biscuits made from a leavened wheat dough with poppy seeds. They’re baked for Kūčios, the Lithuanian Christmas Eve supper on December 24, and…
Kutia is cooked wheat with ground poppy seeds and honey, the ritual first dish of Sviata Vecheria. Where the name and the customs come from.
A sufganiyah is the fried, jam-filled Hanukkah doughnut. Where the name comes from, why it is fried, and how it reached Israel from Nuremberg and Poland.
