{"id":16841,"date":"2018-10-06T17:48:39","date_gmt":"2018-10-06T16:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=16841"},"modified":"2018-10-06T17:48:39","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T16:48:39","slug":"aebleskiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=16841","title":{"rendered":"\u00c6bleskiver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/45089166012\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"\u00c6bleskiver\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1967\/45089166012_371be4fd18_n.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"320\" alt=\"\u00c6bleskiver\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 20px;\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the Duolingo Danish lessons I&#8217;ve been doing recently a number of words have popped with which are not really translated. One I noticed today is <strong>\u00e6bleskiver<\/strong> [\u025b\u02d0bl\u0259\u02ccs\u0261i\u02d0w\u0250], which is simply translated as <strong>appleskives<\/strong>. That doesn&#8217;t really help as I don&#8217;t know what appleskives are. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an example sentence: Koen spiser mandens \u00e6bleskiver mens han kigger v\u00e6k (The cow eats the man&#8217;s appleskives while he looks away).<\/p>\n<p>From the context I guessed appleskives are something you eat and involve apples &#8211; \u00e6ble = apple, but what?<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.bab.la\/dictionary\/danish-english\/aebleskive\">bab.la dictionary<\/a> translates <strong>\u00e6bleskive<\/strong> as &#8216;pancake puff&#8217;, which doesn&#8217;t really help either.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%C3%86bleskiver\">Wikipedia<\/a>, <strong>\u00e6bleskiver<\/strong> are &#8216;Pancake Puffs&#8217; that are:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;spherical in shape. The name literally means <em>apple slices<\/em> in Danish, although apples are not usually an ingredient in present-day versions. Somewhat similar in texture to European pancakes crossed with a popover or Yorkshire pudding, \u00e6bleskiver are solid like a pancake but light and fluffy like a popover.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently they are traditionally eaten at Christmas, and are often served with gl\u00f8gg (mulled wine). They are also served at children&#8217;s birthday parties.<\/p>\n<p>This is more helpful, but what is a <strong>popover<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>A popover is &#8220;a light, hollow roll made from an egg batter similar to that of Yorkshire pudding, typically baked in muffin tins or dedicated popover pans, which have straight-walled sides rather than angled.&#8221; [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Popover\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>So now we know.<\/p>\n<p>Next time I go to Denmark, I will look out for <strong>\u00e6bleskiver<\/strong>, and try some. They sound quite tasty. I&#8217;ll have to make sure that no cows take them while I&#8217;m not looking though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Duolingo Danish lessons I&#8217;ve been doing recently a number of words have popped with which are not really translated. One I noticed today is \u00e6bleskiver [\u025b\u02d0bl\u0259\u02ccs\u0261i\u02d0w\u0250], which is simply translated as appleskives. That doesn&#8217;t really help as I don&#8217;t know what appleskives are. Here&#8217;s an example sentence: Koen spiser mandens \u00e6bleskiver mens han [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-danish","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}