Kifli

Kifli (IPA2|ˈkifli) is a traditional Hungarian pastry made by cutting sheets of soft flour dough into triangular wedges, and wrapping those wedges to create a crescent-shaped morsel, which is then baked (permitting the dough to puff). "Kifli" is consumed plain or for breakfast. Eaten for breakfast, they are often sliced horizontally, buttered and eaten with cold cuts, cheeses or with jam, honey and a cup of coffee, hot chocolate or milk.

The sweet variant of "kifli" is smaller and it is acookie, where the dough often contains vanilla (in which case it can be called a "vaníliás kifli"), and the wedges are wrapped around a filling of sweetened nuts, usually walnuts, called "diós kifli", with poppy seeds, "mákos kifli" or jam called "lekvár" (often plum or apricot jam), "lekváros kifli" and/or raisins. After baking, they are also lightly sprinkled with confectioner's sugar or cinnamon. Alternatively, they can be dipped into hot chocolate. Legend has it that the Ottoman Turks stormed a Hungarian city. The local bakers, who began their work early in the day, were able to raise the alarm and thus helped to defeat the enemy invasion. To symbolize their victory, the bakers employed the emblem of the Turkish empire, the crescent moon, out of puff pastry. The word "kifli" was first recorded in 1785, and is of an Austrian German origin, "Kipfel", having the same meaning. Hungarian plural: "kiflik".A widely popular early nineties [http://redeynet.dnsalias.net/Kifli/ pop group] was named after this pastry.

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ee also

Austrian Vanillekipferl