Teiglach , also spelled taiglach or teglach (, singular teigel, literally "little dough") are small, knotted pastries boiled in a syrup.
History
Teiglach date back to the times of the Romans
who made strips of fried dough in honey called vermiculi.
Italian Jews adopted the dish but it disappeared from their repertoire in the Middle Ages. In the 12th century Franco-German rabbis mentioned eating a dish of fried or baked strips of dough covered in honey called
vermesel or
verimlish at the beginning of the
Sabbath meals. The name went through changes, being called
gremsel and then
chremsel in Eastern Europe. It is popular on Rosh Hashanah, when it is traditional to eat sweet foods made with honey to usher in a sweet new year.
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