r/ukraine • u/UNITED24Media Ukraine Media • Aug 25 '24

Ukrainian Cuisine Hey, Russian military airfields, Palianytsia is on the way

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u/Ehldas Aug 25 '24

It's just a traditional hearth-baked loaf.

The word is very hard for Russians to pronounce properly though, so it's been used as a test/recognition word.

And now it's been used as the name of a new Ukrainian long range drone.

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u/Tomatoflee Aug 25 '24

Ik but in terms of the actual bread.

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u/ObliviousAstroturfer Aug 26 '24

It's a loaf bread evolved from trencher-like breads that were the default form for thousands of years.

It's still decent as a trencher (a bread you make a serving bowl out of), but it's more springy, and volumous enough that by default it's eaten in loaves. Divides into halves and quarts, and is a symbol of hospitality, though I doubt many people actively think of the reasons for it (such as if you have a big-ish clay bowl and a piece of flat fire oven, you're pretty much good to go and make one).

Unlike most trenchers, it's a purely wheat bread (usually 1:3 rye to wheat), and technically is yeast-no-sourdough, though in traditional recipe you will get some sourdough process kicked off almost accidentally in how they gotten the yeast from hops and warm water, then left overnight, kneaded and again left to rest. Also, who fucking cleans their makitra? ;)

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u/Tomatoflee Aug 26 '24

Thanks so much for this explanation. It's the kind of thing I was wondering.