paskha

American  

[pahs-khuh] / ˈpɑs xə /

noun

Russian Cooking.

1. an Easter dessert of pot cheese mixed with sugar, butter, cream, raisins, nuts, etc., and pressed into a pyramidal mold: usually served with kulich.

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Etymology

Origin of paskha

< Russian páskha, special use of Páskha Easter < Greek páscha; see Pasch

Example Sentences

They carried baskets packed with candles, delicately dyed eggs, paskha cake, chunks of cured pork fat known as salo, and sweet Ukrainian wine called Kagor.

From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2023

For paskha and koulich, the elaborate cakes which, with colored eggs, are taken to the churches to be blessed on Easter eve, white flour can be bought with ordinary ration coupons.

From Time Magazine Archive

So we agreed that on Easter he would eat kulichi and paskha, the Easter cheesecake, and then he would begin his hunger strike.

From Time Magazine Archive

That's because I'd eaten something of course—too much paskha probably.

From The Secret City by Walpole, Hugh, Sir