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Paskha (Curd Easter Cake)
curd Easter cake
also: paskha, пасха
A rich pyramidal dessert of sweetened curd cheese, butter, and dried fruit, traditionally blessed and eaten to break the Lenten fast at Easter.
Reading notes
- Zakuska (Appetizers) §15 the curd Easter cake
Paskha, a rich pyramidal dessert of sweetened curd cheese, butter, and dried fruit, traditionally blessed and eaten to break the Lenten fast at Easter -- a "fasting" (scoromnoe, i.e. non-Lenten) dish Prekrasnovkusov eats too early.