birke

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April 5th, 2006 at 7:38 pm ok– my vote for breakfast food is a wonderfully crisp baked and warm rundstykker or birke with great danish butter, stinky cheese, and homemade strawberry preserves and a strong cuppa coffee or tea.

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The name being a combination of the words birke and stein, signifies the birchy-rock, an appellation which both now and in remote times, would appear to have justly belonged to it, for its crest is overgrown with birch trees, one at least of which is as fine a specimen of the plant as it would be easy to discover either in Bohemia or elsewhere.

Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Visited in 1837. Vol. II 1842