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palinka

British  
/ pəˈlɪŋkə /

noun

  1. a type of apricot brandy, originating in Central and Eastern Europe

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Fresh pig’s blood fried with onions and served with bread makes for a breakfast to soak up the palinka.

From Reuters

Hungarians are known for “palinka”, brandy from apricots, plums, cherries, apples or pears.

From Reuters

And to ease the exhaustion from cooking, they drink shots of plum “palinka”, a fiery fruit brandy.

From Reuters

The house pálinka, Hungary’s fabulous fruit brandy, comes from Marton and Daughters, a small, celebrated distiller in a Danube-area village.

From The Wall Street Journal

The new hotness: Good Spirit Bar, which opened last year in the Inner City with more than 350 kinds of whiskey and some 700 spirits overall, including takes on the domestic distillate palinka, made with beet, celery root and carrot.

From New York Times