#rugelach (#rugalah, #rugulach, #rogelach, etc) /'rugələ and 'rugəlaχ in English, from Yiddish) = a small, sweet, rolled pastry, either in a crescent shape or small rectangle, filled with poppyseed paste, jam, nuts, etc. The word in Yiddish is rogal (from Polish, = crescent roll) + ech (= suffix meaning "having the shape of, like"), i.e. "in the shape of a crescent'). Very similar to many other Central and Eastern European pastries, like Hungarian kiflik and Austrian kipfels

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