pashka

British  

/ ˈpæʃkə /

noun

1. a rich Russian dessert made of cottage cheese, cream, almonds, currants, etc, set in a special wooden mould and traditionally eaten at Easter

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Example Sentences

Now the fighting has ended, and Iya — painfully withdrawn, spectrally pale and stirring to life only in Pashka’s presence — tries to pick up the fragments and move on.

From Los Angeles Times

The two women have a bond of friendship relating to the little boy, Pashka, that Beanpole looks after, and this becomes the keystone of a terrible, shared tragedy.

From The Guardian

“What if you could choose from 40 French goat cheeses? Five kinds of dried mushrooms in bulk? A dozen different clam and oyster knives? Fresh truffles and fresh quail eggs and fresh mayonnaise and fresh plums in winter and Russian pashka when it is not even Easter?”

From Washington Post

Magnus Nilsson’s incomparable Nordic Cookbook lists a recipe for it, as well as for a Finnish version of the Russian Orthodox Easter Sunday dessert: pasha or pashka, an ancient extravaganza of dried fruit, honey, nuts and curd cheese, moulded into a mound and inscribed with the first two Cyrillic letters, Х and р, of the Easter greeting, Христос βоскресе: Christ is risen.

From The Guardian

Breads Across Eastern Europe, from Georgia to Bulgaria, pashka is served with slices of kulich, or paska, as it’s known in southern Ukraine – in her first book Mamushka, Olia Hercules makes these puffy buns popping out of cleaned tomato tins, smothered in white icing and hundreds and thousands; see page 5 for the recipe.

From The Guardian