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abrigos

[Deitsch] plural abrigose

Apricot

abrigosche

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Apricot

bakdaag

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A Pennsylvania Dutch expression for "baking day". Usually Friday is set aside for baking.

boova shenkel

/BOO-vah SHEHN-kuhl/
[Deitsch]

A Pennsylvania Dutch beef stew with potato dumplings.

borenjongens

/BOR-ehn yohn-guhns/
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Brandy with raisins, traditionally served at Christmas. In the United States this is a Dutch-American drink made with whisky and raisins.

flax

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Flax. The plant which produces linen and linseeds.

mossbunker

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Menhaden. An oily fish of American Atlantic waters, it has a large head with no scales and a blotch just behind the operculum with more irregular dots behind. Its back is dark, with blue or green or brown shades, and the sides are silver with a bronze sheen. Menhaden are used mainly for fertiliser or as bait being almost too oily for human consumption, though they have been tinned under various misleading names. Mossbunker is from a Dutch word for shad.