Sushki (sg. sushka; rus, су́шки, p=ˈsuʂkʲɪ, plural; rus, су́шка, p=ˈsuʂkʌ, singular) are traditional

Eastern Europe Eastern Europe is a subregion of the European continent. As a largely ambiguous term, it has a wide range of geopolitical, geographical, ethnic, cultural, and socio-economic connotations. The vast majority of the region is covered by Russia, whi ...

an small, crunchy, mildly sweet bread rings eaten for dessert, usually with tea or coffee. () The word ''sushka'' has a common root with the Russian verb ''sushit'' (сушить) "to dry". Typical ingredients are

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, water, and salt, which are combined into a firm dough. This is then cut and rolled into thin strips of about half a centimetre thickness which are formed into rings, briefly cooked in boiling sugar water, then baked in an oven.Bublik and Sushki recipes (in Russian)
/ref> The rings are generally about 3 to 5 cm in size. Sushki are sometimes topped with

poppy seed Poppy seed is an oilseed obtained from the opium poppy ('' Papaver somniferum''). The tiny, kidney-shaped seeds have been harvested from dried seed pods by various civilizations for thousands of years. It is still widely used in many countri ...

s. Traditionally, sushki were strung on a string for selling on the street or at regional markets. Nowadays, industrially produced pre-packaged sushki are sold in food shops all over the countries of the former

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. In other countries, packaged sushki can be found in markets that sell Russian foods.

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Sushki belong to a class of Eastern European ring-shaped bread products which are briefly boiled before baking. Belarusian and Russian baranki are larger and softer, but still rather dense such that they are often dipped into tea like sushki. Ukrainian

bublik Bublik (also ''booblik'' or ''bublyk''; rus, бублик, búblik, plural: ''bubliki''; uk, бублик, lit=, translit=búblyk) is a traditional Eastern European bread roll. It is a ring of yeast-leavened wheat dough, that has been boile ...

i and Polish obwarzanki krakowski are even larger and softer, but not as soft as Jewish

bagel A bagel ( yi, בײגל, translit=beygl; pl, bajgiel; also spelled beigel) is a bread roll originating in the Jewish communities of Poland. It is traditionally shaped by hand into a roughly hand-sized ring from yeasted wheat dough that is fi ...

s. All such products are also commonly referred to as ''bubliki'' in Russian and Ukrainian. Alternatively, they are called generically ''baranki'' in Russian, ''obarinki'' in Ukrainian and ''abaranki'' in Belarusian. "Baranka-type products" ( rus, бараночные изделия, baranochnye izdeliya) is a formal designation of the product class. ''Bublitchki'', a

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of bubliki, is sometimes used to denote small-size products of this class, in particular, sushki.

Taralli Taralli are toroidal Italian snack foods, common in the southern half of the Italian Peninsula. A cracker similar in texture to a breadstick, a pretzel, a bublik, a Sushki or baranki, taralli can be sweet or savory. Sweet taralli are sometim ...

are similar Italian bread rings. File:Bublik, baranka, sushka (2).jpg, Bublik, baranka and sushka File:Сушки с маком.JPG, Poppy-seed sushki

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