Kalach (food)
- For other meanings see kalach.
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Place of origin | Ukraine, Russia, Serbia |
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Type | Sweet bread |
Main ingredient(s) | Wheat flour |
Kalach, kolach, or colac (Ukrainian: кaлач or колач; Russian: кала́ч; Romanian: colac; Serbian: колач/kolač), is a traditional East Slavic bread, commonly served during various ritual meals.[1] The name originates from the Old Slavonic word kolo (коло) meaning "circle", "wheel".
Ukrainian tradition
Ukrainian kolachi (plural) are made by braiding dough made with wheat flour into ring-shaped or oblong forms. They are a symbol of luck, prosperity, and good bounty, and are traditionally prepared for Svyat Vechir (Holy Supper), the Ukrainian Christmas Eve ritual, most often in the form of three round bread loaves stacked one atop the other with a candle in the middle.
In the area around Kiev, it was custom for a midwife to give a kalach as a gift to parents, as part of a fertility blessing.[2] Kalaches were also used in funeral ceremonies.[3] As well in Galicia and Bukovina they were given by children to their godparents in ceremony called a кола́чини (kolachyny) or кола́чання (kolachynnya).[4]
Bread dishes such as kalach are highly prized for their artistic craftsmanship. The Bread Museum in L'viv, Ukraine, contains many examples of intricately woven kalach, paska, and babka.[5]
Russian tradition
The Russian word калач (kalách, kolach) stands for a specific type of twisted white bread. In former times калач meant any kind of white bread, and before modern methods of grinding wheat came into use, white bread was classed as a type of fancy bread.
Cultural legacy
A man who made kalaches was called a калачник (kalachnik), which sometimes by sandhi effect became калашник, and sometimes such a man's descendants thus got the surname Калачник (Kalachnik) or Калашник (Kalashnik), which in Russian became Калашников (Kalashnikov) (= "[son] of the kalach-maker").
See also
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- ↑ http://www.karpaty.info/en/uk/lv/lw/lviv/museums/hliba/
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