It is a baked pudding, in the style of the British puddings, as opposed to a light dessert such as rice or chocolate pudding Koogel actually means "ball" or "cannonball" in German It came to have this name because of the small round pot in which such puddings used to be cooked This round, covered pot would be placed in the larger pot of cholent, a slow-cooking stew of chunks of meat, marrow bones, beans, barley, potatoes and the like
(KOO-gel, KI-gel) It is a baked pudding, in the style of the British puddings, as opposed to a light dessert such as rice or chocolate pudding Koogel actually means "ball" or "cannonball" in German It came to have this name because of the small round pot in which such puddings used to be cooked This round, covered pot would be placed in the larger pot of cholent, a slow-cooking stew of chunks of meat, marrow bones, beans, barley, potatoes and the like
kugel
Etymology
[ 'kü-g&l ] (noun.) 1846. Borrowed from Yiddish or German, from the Middle High German word for ball or globe