buchteln

English

Etymology

From German Buchteln, plural of Buchtel.

Noun

buchteln pl (plural only)

  1. Sweet rolls made of enriched yeast dough, filled with powidl, jam, chocolate, ground poppyseeds or quark, brushed with butter and baked in a large pan so that they stick together and can be pulled apart.
    • 2004 November 30, Wolfgang Puck, “Filled doughnuts offer great Hanukkah treat”, in Globe Gazette, Mason City, Ia., →ISSN, page C2, column 3:
      Turn out the buchteln onto a wire rack, place another rack on top of them, and carefully invert together so they are right side up.
    • 2015 October 21, Jane Dornbusch, “Austrian ambassador: Ursula Schersch, a journalist from Vienna, moved to Boston and discovered a cuisine worth writing back home about”, in The Boston Globe, volume 288, number 113, Boston, Mass., →ISSN, page G7, columns 2–3:
      On a recent Friday morning, in the small, bright Cambridge apartment she shares with [David] Krejci, Schersch is making buchteln, rich, tender buns enclosing a filling of apricot jam. […] Properly made, as Schersch’s surely are, buchteln are crusty on the outside, light and fluffy inside, and not overly sweet.
    • 2018 April 13, Jennifer Walker, “Take 5: Vienna coffeehouses”, in Evening Standard, London, →ISSN, page 51, column 1:
      Sit and enjoy the people-watching, and on Friday nights try the homemade buchteln: sugar-dusted splits filled with plum jam.
    • 2024 April 7, Rick Steves, “Tasting high culture in Vienna”, in Honolulu Star-Advertiser, 143rd year, number 67, Honolulu, Haw., page D3, columns 1–2:
      When Mrs. [Josefine] Hawelka died a couple of weeks after Pope John Paul II, locals suspected the pontiff wanted her much-loved buchteln (marmalade-filled doughnuts) in heaven.

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