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strudel

strudel

18 3.2
A baked pastry made of thin dough rolled around a sweet or savory filling
  • noun
  • /ˈstruːdəl/
translation icon : strudel
  • After, they would have apple strudel with cream.
  • apple strudel
  • cherry strudel
  • strudel dough

Reminds me of a Raspberry toaster strudel as fudge.

Examples

  • After his lesson, Danny sat in the salon, washing bites of apple strudel down with iced lemonade and listening to Daskeh playing her Mozart.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • Apple strudel with vanilla sauce and ice cream.

  • I made some strudel for you and M.

    House of Gucci (2021)

  • Could I have a piece of apple strudel?

    Disobedience (2018)

  • I haven't had a toaster strudel in years; man, oh man, those were treats for me on a good day.

    Blog text (29)

  • That's spinach strudel, apple strudel, potato salad.

    The Zone of Interest (2023)

  • From Hungary comes strudel, the invention of which is apocryphally attributed to Lindy's restaurant in New York City.

    Academic text (2001)

  • There were aromas of paprikash and strudel, and the eternal cabbage.

    Academic text (2010)

  • And Thursday's apple strudel bread with brown sugar and blue agave was toasted in the oven.

    Blog text (28)

  • Could I have a piece of strudel?

Synonyms

pastry
vsstrudel
90 1.0

A baked item like a croissant or tart that people often eat with coffee

is a specific baked item of thin dough sheets rolled around sweet or savory filling

Surface Forms

strudel singular
strudels plural

Etymology

The word strudel comes from the German verb strudeln, which means 'whirlpool' or 'to whirl'. A helpful way to remember it is to imagine very thin dough rolled into a long, twisted swirl around the filling, like a small whirlpool, which is why the name fits this rolled pastry.