Bublik and to eat them with jam (varenye), sour cream (smetana), or other similar dips. While they often accompany tea, bubliks, again unlike modern bagels, are rarely considered a breakfast food. There are number of similar bread products in Russian cuisine, and the main one of this type is baranka (pl. "baranki"), a dough ring somewhat smaller than a bublik, but much thinner and drier. While bubliki originate from Pale of Settlement (Ukraine and Belarus), baranki are an original Russian dish, their very name, baranka or baranok, being a contraction of a word obvaranok, "scalded". They are usually harder than bubliks,
Bublik generic designation for any ring-shaped product of this class. Widely believed that making bubliks first started in Smorgon (the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania, now in Belarus). The "beigl" (or bagel) spread through Poland across all areas with significant Jewish population, soon reaching Ukraine, where it was influenced by similar products and where it got its current form. These products are Russian "baranki", Greek "koulouri" (κουλούρι) or Turkish "simit". They form a dough ring about twice as big as a common bagel, usually with a denser and drier texture. Its name was also heavily russified to the current form —"bublik".