Pastries

🇧🇪Wallonia, Belgium

Rombosse

Rombosse is a whole apple wrapped in thin pastry and baked until the fruit softens.

🇮🇱Israel

Rugelach

רוגלך

Small rolled pastries of yeasted dough around chocolate or cinnamon filling, baked and soaked in sugar syrup while hot.

🇧🇦Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Ružice

Rolled sheets of pastry cut and shaped into roses, deep-fried and dusted with sugar or dipped in syrup.

🇸🇪Sweden

Saffron Buns

Lussekatter

S-shaped saffron-flavored buns with raisins, traditionally eaten for Saint Lucia Day on December 13th.

🇲🇫Saint Martin

Saint Martin Patties

Patties de Bœuf

Small, chunky pastry patties filled with spiced beef or fish meat; can be baked or fried, served hot or cold; great as appetizers, cocktail snacks, or side dishes; a popular street food and party snack on the French side.

🇫🇷France

Saint-Honore

Gateau Saint-Honore

Complex dessert with puff pastry base, caramel-dipped cream puffs, and chiboust cream.

🇷🇴Romania

Saints' Day Pastries

Mucenici

Figure-of-eight shapes made either as boiled dough in sweet walnut syrup in the south or as baked sweet bread in the north.

🇧🇴Bolivia

Salteñas

Juicy, slightly sweet baked empanadas filled with beef, chicken, or pork with potatoes, peas, olives, and a spicy-sweet sauce. A mid-morning street staple, eaten standing and leaning forward.

🇱🇧Lebanon

Sambousek

سمبوسك

Half-moon pastries filled with minced lamb, onion and pine nuts, crimped shut and fried or baked.

🇰🇲Comoros

Samboussa

Samoussa Comorien

A Comorian version of the samosa: a triangular pastry filled with spiced ground beef, onions, garlic, curry, cumin, cinnamon, cardamom, and saffron; wrapped in brick pastry or filo and fried or baked; a popular snack and street food.

🇩🇯Djibouti

Sambusa

ሳምቡሳ

Crispy triangular fried pastries stuffed with spiced lentils, beans or beef. The Ethiopian-Eritrean cousin of the Indian samosa, beloved at fasting tables, breakfast spreads and Ramadan iftars.

🇮🇱Israel

Sambusak

סמבוסק

Half-moon of short dough filled with chickpeas, meat or cheese, baked or fried, and sold from Iraqi and Syrian Jewish bakeries.

🇬🇵Guadeloupe

Samosa

समोसा

A crisp South Asian pastry is folded around spiced potato, peas, onion, or meat, then fried and served with chutney

🇰🇿Kazakhstan

Samsa

Самса

Samsa is a Kazakh tandoor-baked pastry filled with meat, onions, or pumpkin, with a browned shell surrounding a juicy interior.

🇩🇿Algeria

Samsa

سمسة

Triangles of malsouka pastry layered with ground almond and sesame, fried and soaked in rose or geranium syrup.

🇨🇦Canadian Prairies, Canada

Saskatoon Berry Pie

Tarte aux Saskatoon

Pie made from Saskatoon berries with sweet almond flavor, indigenous to western Canada, Prairie specialty.

🇫🇮Savonia, Finland

Savo Bilberry Pie

Savolainen mustikkakukko

Bilberry pie from Savo region, EU PGI protected product, traditional preparation with wild bilberries in rye crust.

🇪🇪Estonia

Savory Pastries

Pirukad

Stuffed dough pockets with meat, cabbage, carrots, rice or mushrooms, baked or fried, a popular street snack.

🇩🇪Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Schwäbischem salzkuchen

Schwäbischem salzkuchen is a dish made with a defined local recipe and ingredients.

🇬🇧Scotland, United Kingdom

Scotch Pie

A small straight-sided double-crust pie of spiced minced mutton, with the pastry wall standing above the lid to hold beans or gravy.

🇮🇹Sardinia, Italy

Seadas

Sardinian fried semolina fritter with pecorino and honey.

🇨🇱Chile

Seafood Empanada

Empanada de mariscos

Empanada filled with mixed seafood, onions, and seasonings, a coastal Chilean specialty, fresh and flavorful.

🇳🇵Nepal

Sel Roti

सेल रोटी

Fermented rice batter is poured in a ring into hot oil and fried into a sweet, crisp-edged bread for Nepali festivals.

🇸🇻El Salvador

Semita

A Salvadoran sweet jam-filled pastry with a lattice top, a daily and home classic

🇪🇪Estonia

Semla Bun

Vastlakukkel

Cardamom-spiced wheat bun filled with whipped cream, traditional for Shrovetide, dusted with powdered sugar.

🇨🇳Guangdong, China

Sesame Balls

煎堆

Hollow glutinous rice dough balls rolled in sesame seeds and deep-fried until they puff, filled with sweet lotus or red bean paste.

🇷🇸Serbia

Sečenica

Сеченица

Sečenica is a Vranje pie of stretched pastry filled with cheese and eggs, baked in a shallow tray.

🇸🇾Syria

Sfiha

صفيحة

Small open-faced pies of dough topped with minced lamb, tomato, onion and pomegranate molasses, baked hot and fast.

🇲🇹Malta

Sfineġ

Fritters of yeasted batter with cauliflower, anchovy or ġbejna dropped into hot oil, eaten in Lent.

🇮🇹Naples, Italy

Sfogliatella

Naples' clam-shaped pastry of many thin crisp leaves (riccia) or a softer shortcrust version (frolla), filled with semolina, ricotta, candied fruit, and cinnamon.

🇺🇸United States

Shaker Lemon Pie

A Shaker pie of paper-thin whole lemon slices — rind and all — in a custard, baked in pastry.

🇨🇾Cyprus

Shamishi

Σιάμισι

Thin dough wrapped around semolina custard and deep-fried, then rolled in sugar and eaten hot from the pan.

🇦🇿Azerbaijan

Shekerbura

Şəkərbura

Crescent pastry packed with ground almond or walnut and sugar, its surface crimped with tweezers into wheat-ear patterns.

🇺🇸United States

Shoofly Pie

A Pennsylvania Dutch molasses pie with a crumbly, cake-like top over a sticky molasses bottom.

🇦🇿Azerbaijan

Shor Gogal

Şor qoğal

Layered round bun with a savoury filling of turmeric, fennel, caraway and salt worked between the sheets of dough.

🇫🇮Finland

Shrovetide Bun

Laskiaispulla

Soft wheat bun filled with whipped cream and jam or almond paste, traditional Shrove Tuesday treat.