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Pyrohy โ€” Rusyn Filled Dough

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Half-moon boiled dumplings of wheat or wheat-and-rye dough, filled with potato and curd, potato and bryndza, soured cabbage, mushrooms, buckwheat, plums or bilberries, and served with browned onion, butter, cracklings or sour cream. โš  NAMING TRAP: Rusyn pyrohy/pirohy are what Ukrainian calls varenyky and Polish calls pierogi, while Russian pirogi are BAKED PIES, not boiled dumplings at all. The same word does not name the same object across these languages.

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Communities and languages

Languages: Rusyn

What is recorded

  • Rusyn pyrohy, Ukrainian varenyky and Polish pierogi name the same boiled filled-dough family, but Russian pirogi are baked pies. Equivalent names do not indicate identical dishes and are stored as aliases rather than merged. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • related to Polish Foodways documented

    Pierogi, varenyky and pyrohy are one boiled filled-dough family; the word does not map onto the same object in every language.

  • related to Ukrainian Foodways documented

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