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A fruit spread prepared by cooking zwetschge plums, similar to jam but traditionally made in Central Europe without additional sweeteners or gelling agents..
There is also a Bohemian pastry called Buchteln in Vienna. Yeast dough filled with powidl or pot cheese, always baked, of course. Perhaps that got mixed in here, too.
They can have any filling... fruit or berries, jam, powidl (a very thick jam-like plum or prune concoction), curd cheese, any kind of kasha, potatoes, meat or poultry, mushrooms, fish (smoked salmon or lox), etc.
Bohemian recipes for powidl use prunes (dried plums).
The consistency of powidl is only achieved by evaporating water from the overcooked fruit mash. The traditional method used is to overcook and thicken the fruit mash in copper cauldrons or stone pots (Pisch 1902).
Use powidl when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Powidl means A fruit spread prepared by cooking zwetschge plums, similar to jam but traditionally made in Central Europe without additional sweeteners or gelling agents..
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There is also a Bohemian pastry called Buchteln in Vienna. Yeast dough filled with powidl or pot cheese, always baked, of course. Perhaps that got mixed in here, too.
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