sooshka

sooshka (plural sooshkas or sooshki)

1. Alternative form of sushka.
   • 1968 November 12, D. Stroganov, V. Kozlov, Feeding Submarine Crews (Translation No. 2355), Frederick, Md.: Department of the Army, Fort Detrick, page 5:

     [F]or evening tea - snack items, pastry, sooshka, jam, rolls and buns, fresh fruits, hot drinks.

   • 1970, Trudy VII Mezhdunarodnogo kongressa antropologicheskikh i ėtnograficheskikh nauk, volume X, page 342:

     Penetration of Russian traders into the Enisei North, opening of grain storages in the hamlets, resulted in introduction of some purchased foods into the aborigines” menu: flour, sooshkas (small ring-shaped crackers), tea and, less frequently, sugar.

   • 1972, The Malahat Review, numbers 21–24, page 30:

     Next to me at a minus distance stands a country woman in a shawl and plush jacket. A string of sooshki hangs around her neck like an Olympic garland.

   • 1984 April 12, O. D. Gavrikov, quotee, “Ministries React To Complaints About Bread Quality, Variety”, in USSR Report: Consumer Goods and Domestic Trade (JPRS-UCG-84-008), Foreign Broadcast Information Service, page 37:

     Work is being completed on development of a line for the production of sooshkas [small ring-shaped cracker] at a capacity of 200 kilograms per hour.

   • 1987, Julian Semyonov [pseudonym; Yulian Semyonovich Lyandres], translated by Charles Buxton, “Konstantinov”, in TASS Is Authorized to Announce…, Oakville, Ont.: Mosaic Press, →ISBN, pages 63 and 351:

     When the secretary had brought in two cups of coffee and a plate of sooshki*, Pyotr Georgevich brought out a sheet of paper and began to sketch a figure on it.

     sooshki — small ring-shaped crackers

   • 1992, Oleg Vasilʹevich I͡Uferev, translated by Sergeĭ Alekseevich Ilʹinykh, Business Map of the USSR: Russia, the Central Region, →ISBN, page 288, column 1:

     Field bread, bakers’ wares (sooshkas, bread sticks), flour

   • 1992, Problemy t︠s︡ivilizat︠s︡ii, page 65:

     Then the bear specially sat with opened mouth and looking from one person to other and people threw sweets, cakes, honey-cakes, rolls and sooshkas.

   • 1992 December 11, “Sharp Increase in Moscow Food Prices Noted”, in FBIS Report: Central Eurasia (FBIS-USR-92-158), Foreign Broadcast Information Service, page 79, column 2:

     There has been a 9-14 percent increase in the price of beef (to R134 per kilogram on the average for Moscow), pelmeni, frozen fish, canned salmon, baked goods, sooshki [small round crackers], peas, fresh cabbage, and onions.

   • 2003, Ilya V. Loysha, “Siberia”, in edited by Solomon H. Katz and William Woys Weaver, Encyclopedia of Food and Culture (Scribner Library of Daily Life), volume 3 (Obesity to Zoroastrianism, Index), New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →ISBN, page 279, column 2:

     Other types of baked pastries included pechen’ya (cookies), prianik (a type of honey-cake), sooshka (ring-shaped pretzels, small kalatch dipped into boiling water before baking); […]

   • 2004, Ludmila Shtern, “The Golden Days”, in Brodsky: A Personal Memoir, Fort Worth, Tex.: Baskerville Publishers, →ISBN, page 78:

     The next morning, when Uncle Grisha was dipping a sooshka (ring-shaped cracker) into his tea and sucking on it with his toothless mouth, I asked him whether or not he liked the poetry.