Talk:Rugelach

The lifting of the siege in 1793? This can only be false. The first Turkish siege of Vienna was 1529, the second 1683. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.109.2.125 (talk) 22:13, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Etymology

I wonder why the author of this entry did not notice the obvious Slavic source of the word "rugelach" in Yiddish. "Róg" (pronounced "roogh") means "corner" in Polish ("roh" in Czech and Slovak), while "rogal" ("rohlik" in Czech and "rožok" in Slovak) is a pastry or bread roll in a shape of crescent (see: http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogal), whereas "rogalik" is a diminuitive of "rogal". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.77.88.183 (talk) 08:47, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

Actually, -akh is the plural suffix in Yiddish. The origin of the name is indeed in the Polish "Róg" with the Yiddish 'le diminuitive suffix. 2A02:ED2:F000:3B63:18D1:F3A2:B05B:C8DB (talk) 17:39, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

Ingredients

Sources referenced in this section overwhelmingly represent American cookbooks and therefore Jewish American cuisine (as opposed to a more well-rounded representation of rugelach in diasporic Jewish traditions). One result of this leaning is that certain ingredients like sour cream and cream cheese (popular in American recipes) are prioritized over yeasted dough recipes (popular in Israel) thus limiting the scope to Jewish American traditions. Y3Y4y (talk) 17:22, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Names

Shouldn't there be just one or two enforced names eg. rugelach and rugelakh. You don't see any other spellings to be honest and the current lead/intro to the article is very jumbled and unprofessional with all those "other spellings". Oliszydlowski (talk) 04:37, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

Why spurious?

"Some sources state that the rugelach and the French croissant share a common Viennese ancestor, crescent-shaped pastries commemorating the lifting of the Turkish siege,[8] possibly a reference to the Battle of Vienna in 1683. This appears to be an urban legend however, as both the rugelach and its supposed ancestor, the Kipferl, pre-date the Early Modern era, while the croissant in its modern form did not originate earlier than the 19th century (see viennoiserie). This leads many to believe that the croissant is simply a descendant of one of these two."

Where is the contradiction? Crescent-shaped pastries came into vogue commemorating lifting a Turkish siege at some point, and these eventually gave rise to rugelach and croissants (even 200 years later). Drsruli (talk) 06:43, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

Discussing more connections to non-Jewish pastries

I feel like this article should spend more space discussing connections to similar non-Jewish pastries. I think the similarities to other Eastern European pastries is currently mostly glossed over. 92anonymous92 (talk) 20:22, 20 January 2023 (UTC)