Christmas night is associated with many signs and fortune-telling. This is one of the most joyful winter holidays, and Christmas Eve love to celebrate. However, have you ever wondered why the night from January 6th to 7th got such a name? The fact is that our ancestors baked hemp oil cakes called "soen" on Christmas night. Those wishing to roll out a dough for juicier people put it on their faces as masks in order to watch passers-by from the gateway. The future of the whole year was determined by the appearance of the first of them. The custom is almost forgotten, but the question remains: "How to say it right: juicy or juicy?" Let's try to figure it out.
Let's start with morphology
Currently, the word "juicer" is commonly used, which consists of two parts: the root "op" and the suffix "nick".
This noun (answers the question: who, what?), Belonging to the masculine gender, and since in declension the “juvenile” in the plural changes its form in the genitive and accusative cases, it is inanimate, refers to the 2nd declension: no (whom, what?) companions; I see (whom, what?) composers.
Let's look in the dictionary
We’ll open Max Fasmer’s dictionary and try to figure out how to do it: juic or juicer.
First, let's determine the etymology of these words. It refers to the origin of the word “sochi” in connection with the ancient custom of fortune-telling by means of a dough for tortillas cooked in hemp oil. The word is ancient Eastern Russian.
Dahl in his dictionary gives a clarifying indication of the Pskov origin of the word "sochi", and also suggests that not only lozenges can be discussed, but also a "made pie". However, thinly rolled cakes also take part in the preparation of this pie, and such a culinary product was prepared in the Olonets province.
Kulik’s research, which refers to the first mention of Sochn in Domostroy, takes us even deeper into history. There, the ancient Russian word "social" meant the same thing as "cakes."
By the way, the Rusologist Dobrovolsky believes that the kinship of the Russian and Belarusian languages ​​is evidenced by the fact that in Belarusian there is a masculine noun "sakhen" (in the plural "sachni").
In the dictionary of M. P. Fasmer we find a direct indication of the relationship between the words "Christmas Eve" and "Sok".
Thus, the Sok – Sotnik – Christmas Eve chain has been established. But this is only one part of the question.
Let's go deep into cooking
To understand the question of how to write correctly: juicy or juicy, you need to find out whether these concepts are similar in a culinary sense.
The synonym for "juicy" is "flat cake." For the preparation of juicy, it is also necessary to thinly roll out the dough and fry the resulting cakes in hemp oil. That is, there are common positions in these culinary terms.
In the culinary dictionary (there is one) about “juiciness” you can find out that we are talking about the original Russian concept related to the rolled dough of any composition and shape, regardless of its thickness. The same dictionary mentions the transformation of the ancient word "soen" into the more commonly used "pancake" or "leaf".
Of course, from a culinary point of view, these concepts are similar, but the subject of our study is different. Nevertheless, we can talk about the gradual withdrawal from everyday use of the word "soen" and its replacement with other words.
Juice Mention
D. N. Ushakov in his "Explanatory Dictionary" mentions juicily in the traditional sense related to the preparation of tortillas, but he has a significant addition: this tortilla can be baked "on juice." That is, the etymology is viewed along with the culinary implication.
Let's see where there is still a mention of juice in connection with the "juic."
In order to come to a consensus on the question of whether it is correct: juiciness or juiciness, the dictionaries were studied by Rusologists to determine the common properties of these two culinary concepts.
Firstly, Dahl, speaking of juiciness, cites two of its varieties: lean and fast. Lenten is cooked on hemp juice, and fast meat is also cooked on hemp, but butter, however, among the culinary experts of that time, it was more commonly known as "beef." So, at the top of this bastard there could be porridge, and cottage cheese, and sour cream, so Dahl draws an analogy of this product with a cheesecake.
But we know that a modern juicer is a culinary product with cottage cheese and it is prepared from flat cakes folded in half, in the middle of which there is a curd filling.
Secondly, on Christmas Eve, Dahl writes that on the eve of this holiday, juices are baked, but mainly with berries, from which the name "artisan or nomad" comes from, and sometimes there is a "juicy day". Every housewife knows that when preparing a product with berries, juice is secreted.
Speaking about Christmas Eve, Fasmer points out that his origin is based on sob made from meatless pastry, as well as the stand used for the pie - the Christmas Eve (earlier “Christmas Eve”). Recall that lean sobs were prepared with berries that allowed juice.
So, the aforementioned sequence "juice - juicy - Christmas Eve" is quite logical.
Important: “we’ll make it” could be either a finished culinary work, or a preparation in the form of a lean or fast cake, thinly (and not so) rolled out.
Mention of cottage cheese
Few people today use the word "sochi", although until the beginning of the 70s it was still in use, and even the price list of confectioneries of that time meant exactly "sochi". However, then the old-Russian word was replaced by the colloquial "composer". Forced to respond to the dilemma "sochny" or "juicer" and how to speak correctly, dictionaries began to mention the colloquial version of "juicer". However, a remark was made: it is used in colloquial speech.
Some time passed, and the word "sochn" practically disappeared from the lexicon, and the "juvenile" has not yet acquired a specific legal status. And again the question arose of how right: juiciness or juicer.
In Ozhegov, in the early editions, a fresh tortilla stuffed with berries, cottage cheese, cereal, etc., referred to as "soen" appears.
However, we note that for the transition from "juicer" to "juicer", the form "joint" is necessary, but it is not in the dictionaries of different authors. We can say that this form arose spontaneously.
Later, Ozhegov edited by Shvedova gives an interpretation of juic, which is not fundamentally different, but with an emphasis on the cake, it is with the cottage cheese, shaped in the form of a pie. And here we meet for the first time a remark where it is very identified with the writer.
However, the culinary context should be taken into account: juiciness with cottage cheese and juicy are one and the same concept. However, cake and juicer are two different concepts.
Thus, the answer to the question of how correctly: juicy or juicy will be associated with the features of the preparation of this product, as well as with the presence / absence of curd filling in it.
The root of the question
Researchers of the etymology of the word “sochi” have come across an interesting phenomenon: despite the fact that the word “juice” is the root of the word, it has a very conditional relation to it. So it’s possible to speak about the origin of “juicy” from “juice” rather conditionally, only in a culinary context.
Then where is the “juice" from? Preobrazhensky has no answer to this question in his dictionary. However, the Rusologist sees a Sanskrit trace: satas or satam, which means a vessel or receptacle of something, consisting of two parts.
Continuing this idea, we return again to the culinary dictionary and to the definition of “soen”. The result will be the following: juicier is a rolled out sheet of dough for embedding some filling. Well, and in view of the fact that such a deeper origin was lost, they began to mistakenly consider "sochi" to be derived from "juice."
So to summarize. "Sozen" or "juicer", how right? If you are talking about a cake, rolled thinly or not quite, on which the filling is placed in the form of cottage cheese, after which the cake is doubled and baked, then this is a juicer.
If you mean dough thinly rolled into a cake, fried in oil, with or without filling, then you are dealing with juic.
However, do not forget that the culinary product juicy is one of the varieties of juicy, which has now become more common.