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Which ritual bread, a round, ornately decorated loaf traditionally presented to newlyweds, is offered with salt as a symbol of hospitality and prosperity?

The karavai (каравай) is baked by happily married women and decorated with dough figures of doves, wheat sheaves, and sun symbols; whoever takes the largest bite without hands is said to rule the household.

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