What is rugelach?

Rugelach is a Jewish pastry originating in Ashkenaza or European Jewish culture. It has many alternative spelling, including rugelakh, rugulacha, rugalacha, ruggalach and rogelch in plural and rugalah and rugal in singular. The pastry is also sometimes referred to as a butter corner, walnut corner or cream cheese in the United States. Eastern European Jewish immigrants introduced the desert to the United States, where it is now popular outside the Jewish-American culture.

Rugalach is available in virtually any Jewish bakery and is consumed throughout the year, especially for holidays. You can also find it in many bakeries and food stores that specialize in Jewish cuisine. It usually consists of a rolled dough triangle around the filling. The dough is introduced in a large circle, covered with filling and then cut into triangles as a pizza so that every "slice" can rumble. Alternatively can be made by rolling large sheet dough around filling and slicing overD by baking.

Rugelch is a yiddish word that means "small corners", "small twists" or perhaps "royal". The pastry dough can be made with or without milk. According to the rules for kosher, meat and dairy products cannot be eaten together, but rugelach without milk is a suitable dessert after meat. Cream cheese is sometimes used in the body, but the dough of sour cream is considered more traditional. The version of cream cheese biscuits is generally considered to be American innovation because traditional Eastern European food does not use cream cheese.

In Rugelach, many different fillings can be found, including fruit cans, such as apricot or raspberry, chocolate, cinnamon, nuts, poppy seeds, raisins or marzipan. Almost any sweet filling and even salty fillings to turn the original can be used. The pastry is a baking of the ften brushed with egg white glaze and sometimes covered with nuts or coarse cucream. The dough can also be introduced on a mixture of cinnamon, sugar and nuts instead of flour for added taste.

rugelach has existed since at least the 18th century. According to tradition, pastry was created in memory of the exclusion of the Turks from Austria in 1783. The crescent species reflected the emblem of the Ottoman Empire so that people could symbolically absorb their enemy. In many Central European languages, Rugelch is referred to as "crescent", such as German kipferin .