buchteln
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Sweet rolls made of enriched yeast dough, filled with powidl, jam, chocolate, ground poppy seeds or quark, brushed with butter and baked in a large pan so that they stick together and can be pulled apart.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "Sit and enjoy the people-watching, and on Friday nights try the homemade buchteln: sugar-dusted splits filled with plum jam."
- "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."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Buchteln