pulla

A sweet, leavened baked good made of wheat and flavored with crushed cardamom, resembling very soft bread in consistency, eaten in Finland.

Noun

  1. A sweet, leavened baked good made of wheat and flavored with crushed cardamom, resembling very soft bread in consistency, eaten in Finland.
    • "Then we would all have coffee and pulla bread," recalled Hilma Wainio of Spencer. - 1986, Melissa Ladenheim, "The sauna in central New York:
    • Other locally made items include pulla, a foot-long braided bread flavored with cardamom and priced at $6 a loaf, and wood carvings. - 1991 September 22, Eleanor Charles, “Connecticut Guide”, in The New York Times:
    • Pulla is a braided yeast loaf, flavored with freshly ground cardamom and sprinkled with chopped almonds and sugar […] - 1992, Joan Potter Loveless, Three Weavers, page 29:

Origin

Borrowed from Finnish pulla, from Swedish bulle. Doublet of bowl and boule.

Forms

pullas