boublik

Noun

bublik (plural bubliks or bubliki)

1. A traditional Eastern European bread roll, consisting of a ring of yeast-leavened wheat dough that has been boiled in water for a short time before baking.
   • A samovar was always in the office, always on the boil, and they could offer tea and buttered bubliks to the customers. […] He would get up and dress and say his prayers, and then sit down to drink tea—he would drink up three glasses of tea and eat two large bubliks and half a French roll and...1959, Anton Chekhov, translated by Rosa Graham, “Dushechka”, in Stephen Graham, editor, Great Russian Short Stories, New York, N.Y.: Liveright Publishing Corporation, pages 577 and 584