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Cozonac (Romanian:) or Kozunak (Bulgarian: козунак) is a sweet yeast dough that can be used to make different traditional holiday breads and cakes.Often mixed with raisins or nuts, it can be baked as a loaf or rolled out with fillings like poppy seed or walnuts. [2]
Although the Re-latinization of Romanian created synonyms to, or replaced a number of Slavic and other loanwords in the 19th century, about 20% of the Romanian vocabulary is still of Slavic origin. [ 3 ] [ 18 ] The earliest Slavic loanwords which became part of the basic vocabulary are the most likely to have survived. [ 19 ]
The traditional Romanian and Moldovan colac is a braided bread, typically made for special occasions or holidays, such as Christmas, Easter, weddings, and funerals. [29] It is a traditional custom of Romanian rural society, on Christmas Eve, to gather in groups, to go in different houses and to sing colinde , traditional Christmas carols .
A woman grinding kasha, an 18th-century drawing by J.-P. Norblin. In Polish, cooked buckwheat groats are referred to as kasza gryczana. Kasza can apply to many kinds of groats: millet (kasza jaglana), barley (kasza jęczmienna), pearl barley (kasza jęczmienna perłowa, pęczak), oats (kasza owsiana), as well as porridge made from farina (kasza manna). [4]
The tradition is known locally by its Slavic names, all literal variants of "bread and salt": Belarusian: хлеб і соль, Bulgarian: хляб и сол, Czech: chléb a sůl, Macedonian: леб и сол, Polish: chleb i sól, Russian: хлеб-соль, Serbo-Croatian: хлеб и со, hlȅb i so, Slovak: chlieb a soľ, Slovene: kruh in sol, Ukrainian: хліб і сіль.
The bread has no set design, and the style and ornamentation of the korovai varies by region, although colors red, gold and silver were most commonly employed in decoration. [ 5 ] The bread was traditionally prepared in the home of the bride by women who sang traditional songs to guide them through the making. [ 3 ]
Romani people also cook pufe (made from fried flour), xaritsa (fried cornbread), bogacha (baked bread) and xaimoko (a meal consisting of rabbit meat). They serve their meals with kafa (coffee) and chao (tea) with sugar and milk or fruits such as strawberries, peach slices, apple slices, or lemon.
Magiun of Topoloveni - a type of plum jam, registered as a Romanian protected geographical indication (PGI) product in the European Union [16] Mucenici/sfințișori - sweet pastries (shaped like "8", made from boiled or baked dough, garnished with walnuts, sugar, or honey, eaten on a single day of the year, on 9 March) [25] Orez cu lapte - Rice ...