Pryanik

Dip the pryaniki in the glaze while they are still hot.

MOULDING BOARDS FOR PRYANIKS FROM POSHEKHONYE / The boards for moulding the Russian pryaniks (a kind of gingerbread, made of flour, honey or treacle, and spices), are interesting objects of folk art.

After his interview, Vikenty went to the Central Post Office and wired five thousand roubles to Lida for her to buy some things in the camp store—sometimes they had dried fish, and pryaniki made in the thirties—hard as iron, but spicy enough when soaked in water.

The artists who belonged to the Mir iskusstva (World of Art) group, sought new motifs in folk wood carvings, embroidery, icons, antique carpets, and figured treacle cakes (pryaniks).

Who’ll have some pryaniki with honey, who’ll have cheap ones with molasses! Buy them up, boys, give them to the pretty girls!

I will prepare Russian Pryaniks—maybe you call them honey cakes—for dessert and also lemon tarts with blueberry sauce.

Tula is a big industrial city with about 594000 inhabitants. It is famous for producing three important things: guns, samovars and traditional cakes called pryaniks.

Tea is drunk with various different accompaniments such as rolls, barankas (a dry, ring-shaped roll) or pryaniks (spice cakes), which are specially produced to be taken with tea.