strudel
[strood-l; German shtrood-l]
- a pastry, usually consisting of a fruit, cheese, or other mixture, rolled in a paper-thin sheet of dough and baked.
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Origin of strudel
1925–30; < German: literally, eddy, whirlpool
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Related Words for strudel
cake, doughnut, bread, croissant, pie, phyllo, delicacy, dainty, tart, Danish, strudel, patisserie, turnover, panettonestrudel
- a thin sheet of filled dough rolled up and bakedapple strudel
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Word Origin for strudel
German, from Middle High German strodel eddy, whirlpool, so called from the way the pastry is rolled
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Word Origin and History for strudel
kind of Austrian pastry, 1893, from German Strudel, literally "eddy, whirlpool," from Old High German stredan "to bubble, boil, whirl, eddy," from PIE root *ser- (2) "to flow" (see serum).
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