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Shulyky (Ukrainian: шулики), shulyaky, also lamantsi, is a traditional Ukrainian dish usually eaten during the Makoviy or Spas holiday. It is a wheat-based flatbread cut into small pieces that is topped with diluted honey and poppy seeds.
The dough is typically made with flour, egg, water and washed poppy seeds. The poppy seeds are may be ground in a makitra. It is then baked in an oven and topped with a honey-poppy seed mixture.
The dough for the shulyky was made lean because there was a two-week fast on Spas.
A similar dish of unleavened bread with honey and poppy seeds is mentioned in the Deeds of Theodosius of Pechersk, dating from the 12-13th century.
Shulyky are mantioned in Ivan Kotlyarevsky's Eneida, as well as in works by Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko. A recipe of shulyky was recorded by Mykola Markevych in the mid-19th century.
