pirogen

Noun

pirog (countable and uncountable, plural pirogs or pirogi or pirogen or pirogn)

1. A baked case of dough with a sweet or savoury filling, popular in Eastern Europe.
   • On such a day it was the custom, some sixty years ago, to bake several immense pirogs of cake dough; one of these pirogs was stuffed with hard-boiled eggs and sometimes also with kasha, while the others had no fillings; it was these latter that were sent to various relatives as a sign of affection.1933, Nina Nikolaevna Selivanova, Dining & Wining in Old Russia, page 90

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