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Borodinskii bread en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative, uncountable) Alternative form of Borodinsky bread.
We dined on zakuski—pickled herring and mushrooms, caviar, slices of tongue, hard sausage, cheese, onions, dark Borodinskii bread, vodka with lemon rinds—to the accompaniment of choral music from the record player.
1988, Nicholas Daniloff, chapter 7, in Two Lives, One Russia, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, page 106:This is “Borodinskii” bread. This is Indian tea and this is China tea.
1996, James E. Brown, Alla F[edorovna] Priiatkina, “ITE-16₁: A determination of the typological classification of an object (what class of things does it belong to)”, in Informational Types of Expressions: A Handbook of Conversational Themes and Notions with Associated Grammatical Structures for Teachers and Students of Russian, Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, Inc., →ISBN, Group IV […], page 83:Borodinskii bread is, in my opinion, the best Russian dark bread. It is very dark and tastes slightly sweet and the coriander adds a delightful piquancy to the flavor bouquet.
1983, Anne Volokh, “Borodinskii Khleb: Dark Rye Bread Borodinskii”, in The Art of Russian Cuisine, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan Publishing Company, →ISBN, chapter 12 (Bread), page 487:Even today, when the range of available commodities has widened exponentially, the “Sovetskoe shampanskoe” label, many of the finer Soviet vodkas, cognacs, and liqueurs, Borodinskii bread, top-grade hard salamis, and the candies beloved by two or three generations of Russian children continue to attract buyers at a premium price.
2005 winter, Julie Hessler, “Caviar with Champagne: Common Luxury and the Ideals of the Good Life in Stalin’s Russia. By Jukka Gronow. […]”, in Slavic Review, volume 64, number 4, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 910: