paskha

[ pahs-khuh ]

noun

, Russian Cooking.

1. an Easter dessert of pot cheese mixed with sugar, butter, cream, raisins, nuts, etc., and pressed into a pyramidal mold: usually served with kulich.

Word History and Origins

Origin of paskha¹

< Russian páskha, special use of Páskha Easter < Greek páscha; Pasch

Example Sentences

They carried baskets packed with candles, delicately dyed eggs, paskha cake, chunks of cured pork fat known as salo, and sweet Ukrainian wine called Kagor.

From New York Times

So we agreed that on Easter he would eat kulichi and paskha, the Easter cheesecake, and then he would begin his hunger strike.

From Time Magazine Archive

For paskha and koulich, the elaborate cakes which, with colored eggs, are taken to the churches to be blessed on Easter eve, white flour can be bought with ordinary ration coupons.

From Time Magazine Archive

In reality, it is a most amusing fair for toys and cheap goods suitable for Easter eggs; gay paper roses, wherewith to adorn the Easter cake; and that combination of sour and sweet cream and other forbidden delicacies, the paskha, with which the long, severe fast is to be broken, after midnight matins on Easter.

From Project Gutenberg

That's because I'd eaten something of course—too much paskha probably.

From Project Gutenberg