CULINARY GLOSSARY

Hamula is an old Ukrainian dessert of baked apples or dried fruit, thickened with flour.

Kulaha is a Polissia dessert of berries cooked with rye flour into a thick sweet-sour mass.

Mandryky are small curd-cheese cakes traditionally baked for the feast of Saints Peter and Paul.

Shulyky is a Poltava dessert of flatbread broken up and doused with poppy-seed milk and honey; a dish of the Makovii feast.

Uzvar is a traditional Ukrainian drink of dried fruit and berries, indispensable on Christmas Eve.

Varenukha is a traditional Ukrainian hot alcoholic drink of horilka, honey, dried fruit, and spices.