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Tatar pilmän

пилмән

SDDated textFamily C · Slavic & Baltic boiled pocket

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Region
Volga-Ural and Siberia (plus Karakalpakstan)
First record
1844 · Empires & migration
Fold
Ring
Cooked
Always served in clear broth
Wrapper
Wheat doughFilled; savory
Filling
Wheat; meat
Cooked
Always served in clear broth
Served
A "festive and to a certain extent ceremonial dish"
Size
About 4 cm across

Not known yet We don’t yet have a photo we can use, a written story, a recipe or a precise place of origin for Tatar pilmän. What we do have is below, with its sources.

Where

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From Volga Tatars (Kazan).

  • OriginTatarstan · Volga-Ural · Volga Tatars

Evidence

Fairly sure. A dated text records it by 1844.

We list 2 sources: 2 dated texts. How grading works.

First record Fuchs, Kazanskie tatary, 1844: pelmeni with beef and sour milk among the Kazan Tatars (D); first found

Sources

  • D

    Казанские татары в статистическом и этнографическом отношениях (1844); edition read: Kazan, Poznanie, 2013, 108 pp., ISBN 978-5-8399-0467-5, text 'adapted into modern Russian' by A. G. Khoroshavina

    Dated text · Karl Fuchs (K. F. Fuks); ed. I. I. Bikeev, Institute of Economics, Management and Law (Kazan) · 1844

    Dinner of prosperous Kazan Tatars: "1) пельмени с говядиной и кислым молоком (казан-бикмясы) или плов ..."; "Ужин состоит из пельменей и лапши"; poorer townsmen "за обедом едят лапшу с говядиной или пельмени"; "Обычное… Dinner of prosperous Kazan Tatars: "1) пельмени с говядиной и кислым молоком (казан-бикмясы) или плов ..."; "Ужин состоит из пельменей и лапши"; poorer townsmen "за обедом едят лапшу с говядиной или пельмени"; "Обычное татарское кушанье в деревнях – салма, пельмени, горох, забеленный сметаной"; madrasa pupils cook "салму или пельмени" in a common cauldron; pelmeni as the third course of a festive meal. Fuchs uses the Russian word "пельмени"; the Tatar form пилмән is not written (the gloss he gives is "казан-бикмясы").
  • D

    Казанские татары в статистическом и этнографическом отношениях (2013 edition)

    Dated text · Karl Fuchs; Poznanie, Kazan · 1844 (attribution of this passage unverified)

    A further passage in the same 2013 volume (near the end, in the part that also carries a text headed "E. P. Turnerelli"; authorship of this passage not checked) describes a Tatar host's meal: a broth with onion and… A further passage in the same 2013 volume (near the end, in the part that also carries a text headed "E. P. Turnerelli"; authorship of this passage not checked) describes a Tatar host's meal: a broth with onion and pepper, sometimes sour milk or vinegar, which "вместе с пирожками называется пельменями". Upgrade path to A: check the passages against a scan of the 1844 Kazan original.

Family C

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