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Palyanytsia
Palianytsia (, ) is a type of Ukrainian hearth-baked bread, made mostly of wheat flour in a home oven. The yeast hearth bread has a semi-circle cut across the top third of the loaf. Etymology The word comes from , meaning "to burn" or "to smoke". This is because, when baking the bread, the raised crust can sometimes be burned. Another version is based on the assumption that ''pOlianytsia'' is a traditional bread produced by the Polans () an early medieval tribe of Eastern Slavs. Folklorist, ethnographer, and linguist Mytrofan Dykariv ( Митрофан Дикарів) proposes that the word comes from the , which referred to round cakes offered to the gods. Recipe Traditional palyanytsya was baked from a dough made with hops, year or sourdough, wheat flour and salt and baked. According to GOST 12793-77, the bakeries of the USSR produced a standardized "Ukrainian palianytsia" baked in molds. It had a mass of 750 g to 1 kg, with a lateral cut of 3/4 of a circle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the north; Poland and Slovakia to the west; Hungary, Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov to the south and southeast. Kyiv is the nation's capital and List of cities in Ukraine, largest city, followed by Kharkiv, Odesa, and Dnipro. Ukraine's official language is Ukrainian language, Ukrainian. Humans have inhabited Ukraine since 32,000 BC. During the Middle Ages, it was the site of early Slavs, early Slavic expansion and later became a key centre of East Slavs, East Slavic culture under the state of Kievan Rus', which emerged in the 9th century. Kievan Rus' became the largest and most powerful realm in Europe in the 10th and 11th centuries, but gradually disintegrated into rival regional powers before being d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |