Pastries

🇹🇷Turkey

Sigara böreği

Cigarette' böreks: thin pastry rolled around cheese and fried.

🇧🇩Bangladesh

Singara

সিঙ্গারা

Small pastry triangle filled with diced potato, peanut and cauliflower, deep-fried and eaten with tea in the afternoon.

🇸🇽Sint Maarten

Sint Maarten Guava Tart

Guava Tart

Sweet tart made with guava filling in flaky pastry crust; handcrafted by local elders on Sint Maarten and Saint-Martin

🇲🇫Saint Martin

Sint Maarten Guavaberry Tart

Guavaberry Tart

Special seasonal tart made with guavaberry jam, cinnamon, almond extract, and shortcrust pastry; closely linked to the holiday season on Sint Maarten and Saint-Martin

🇸🇽Sint Maarten

Sint Maarten Pastechi

Pastechi

Crescent-shaped deep-fried pastry with sweet dough, filled with cheese, beef, chicken, tuna, or vegetables; similar to empanadas but with wheat flour crust; a popular street food and breakfast item on Sint Maarten.

🇧🇦Belgrade, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sirnica

Sirnica is a cheese-filled filo pita. In Belgrade, the local bakery convention calls the cheese version burek even though Bosnia reserves burek for the meat filling.

🇸🇰Skalica, Slovakia

Skalica Trdelník

Skalický trdelník

Sweet dough wound round a wooden roller, baked over an open flame and rolled in walnuts and sugar — protected by origin to the town of Skalica.

🇳🇴Bergen, Norway

Skillingsboller

Bergen cinnamon rolls; link to DK kanelsnegl and SE kanelbullar in a variant family.

🇳🇴Norway

Skolebolle

School bun with vanilla custard and coconut.

🇸🇰Slovakia

Slovak Kapustník

Kapustník

A Slovak cabbage pie of yeast dough layered with sauerkraut, onion and sometimes sausage or mushrooms, baked into a savoury pastry.

🇪🇸Spain

Small Pies

Empanadillas

Small turnover pastries filled with tuna, meat, or vegetables, fried or baked, a popular tapa and snack across Spain.

🇧🇾Belarus

Smazhanka

Смажанка

An open-faced round of yeast dough baked under melted cheese with sausage, mushrooms or ham, sold hot from bakery counters and kiosks for small change.

🇧🇪Flanders, Belgium

Smoutebollen

Carnival doughnuts fried in beef dripping and dusted with sugar.

🇸🇴Somalia

Somali Samosa

Sambuusa

A Somali variation of the samosa — a triangular fried pastry filled with spiced ground meat, onions, garlic, green peppers, and traditional spices; or with lentils or vegetables; a staple at Ramadan iftar and a common street snack; crisp on the outside with a well-seasoned filling; stands apart from other samosas thanks to its own mix of Somali seasonings; served alongside bur (flour dough).

🇹🇲Turkmenistan

Somsa

Baked Central Asian pastries stuffed with minced meat and onion.

🇧🇷Brazil

Sonho

A Brazilian oval yeast doughnut filled with pastry cream or dulce de leche, dusted with sugar. A classic padaria treat.

🇦🇷Argentina

Sopaipillas

A Patagonian and Cuyo fried pumpkin dough disc, crispy outside and soft inside, served with honey or syrup. A rainy-day snack, especially in the southern Andes.

🇨🇱Chile

Sopaipillas

Fried pumpkin dough discs, served with pebre or chancaca syrup, a beloved Chilean street food and winter treat.

🇨🇱Chile

Sopaipillas Pasadas

Sopaipillas soaked in chancaca syrup with orange and cinnamon, a traditional Chilean winter dessert, warm and spiced.

🇺🇸Southwestern United States, United States

Sopapillas

Puffy, fried pastry pillows served with honey — a New Mexico dessert staple.

🇷🇸Serbia

Sour Cherry Pie

Пита са вишњама

Filo layered with sour cherries and sugar and baked until the juice soaks the bottom sheets, cut into squares and dusted with sugar.

🇺🇸United States

Sour Cream Raisin Pie

A Midwestern pie of raisins in a tangy sour-cream custard, often topped with meringue.

🇺🇸United States

Sour Orange Pie

A Florida pie made with sour oranges — tart, aromatic, and more complex than sweet oranges.

🇸🇸South Sudan

South Sudanese Mandazi

Mandazi

Fried sweet pastry topped with cinnamon sugar or honey; dough flavored with cinnamon and coconut milk; soft and fluffy inside, crispy outside; sold as street food; a popular snack across South Sudan; influenced by East African mandazi.

🇺🇸United States

Southern Butter Rolls

A Southern dessert of rolled dough baked in butter, sugar, and milk until soft and saucy.

🇬🇷Greece

Spanakopita

Σπανακόπιτα

Greek spinach pie: flaky phyllo filled with spinach, feta, and herbs, baked golden. A bakery and home classic, eaten on the go or as a meze, a national staple, savory and flaky.

🇩🇰Denmark

Spandauer

A Danish round pastry filled with custard or fruit jam, topped with icing, a wienerbrød favorite

🇦🇩Gibraltar, Andorra

Spanish French Toast

Gibraltar Torrijas

Spain's version of French toast: stale bread soaked in milk or wine with cinnamon and lemon, then fried and sweetened with honey or sugar, a Holy Week tradition.

🇪🇸Spain

Spanish Milhojas

Milhojas

Layered puff-pastry cake with cream or dulce de leche, a bakery classic across Spain.

🇸🇮Prekmurje, Slovenia

Spehovka

Spehovka is a Prekmurje savoury pastry filled with lard and onion, baked into a flaky roll or slice.

🇽🇰Kosovo

Spinach Pie

Pite me Spinaq

Flaky phyllo pie filled with spinach and cheese, a Kosovar everyday staple.

🇱🇧Lebanon

Spinach Triangles

فطاير سبانخ

Triangular pastries filled with spinach, onion and sumac, pinched into three corners and baked.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Stargazy pie

Stargazy pie is a pie from Cornwall, rooted in local cooking tradition. Distinct from food-pite.

🇬🇧United Kingdom

Steak and Ale Pie

A classic British pub pie of braised beef, onions, carrots, stock and dark brown ale baked under a flaky crust, seasoned with herbs and Worcestershire sauce.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Steak and Kidney Pie

Beef shin and ox kidney braised in stout or stock until dark, sealed under a suet or shortcrust lid and baked.

🇬🇧Scotland, United Kingdom

Steak Pie

A traditional British meat pie of stewing steak and beef gravy enclosed in a pastry shell, often served with chunky chips.