Soviet Street Kiosk · Sugared Doughnut
Ponchiki
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Soviet-era 'ponchikovaya' stalls sold them for a few kopecks each, making the doughnut one of the cheapest hot snacks a Moscow worker could grab on a lunch break.
Ponchiki are small, round, deep-fried yeast doughnuts, plain or jam-filled, dusted heavily with powdered sugar while still hot from the fryer. Street kiosks and small stand-up counters fried them to order, handing over a paper bag that turned translucent with oil within minutes.
Why it's made this way: Cheap-fry doughnut stalls spread across Moscow and other Central Russian cities in the Soviet era, becoming one of the period's defining grab-and-go street snacks alongside pirozhki.
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