estonian spring traditions
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Estoninan spring
traditions
Mother-tongue day
● On 14 of March
● Different activities in school
Annunciation
● On 25th March.
● Important in old Estonian time.
● Celebrated different rituals.
● The day has many ritual foods.
Unleavened barley bread
Unleaved barley bread description
● One of Estonia's dessert items is this cake-like
barley bread. The recipe is hundreds of years
old and was forgotten for a long time. It is now
making its way back. The recipe is easy and
the taste is simple but different, soft and
delicious. This is what Estonia’s wealthier
ancestors ate for special occasions.Serve it
hot with this cranberry cream sauce. This
serving will be enough for 10 – 12 people.
Ingredients
● 500 g sour cream
● 1 egg
● ½ teaspoon
● 3 tablespoon sugar
● 60 g butter, melted
● 100 g whole wheat flour
● 200 g barley flour
● ½ teaspoon baking soda
● 150 g carrot (grated finely)
● 20 g butter, for sautéing
Directions
● Grate the carrot, sauté with butter on a pan, and let it cool.
● Mix soda and flours.
● Beat the eggs up, add sour cream, sugar, salt.
● Now in this mixture, add the flour mixture.
● In the end, add melted butter and carrots and mix very
well.
● Pour the whole mixture in a baking dish and bake at 180°C
for 35 – 40 minutes.
1. April
● Fools day
● Sending jokecards
St George´s Day
● On 23 of April
● All the nature is waking up
● Different sports activities
May Day
● On 30th April.
● The day of the witches and magic.
● Organized witch plays, campfires and people have the
barbecue.
Easter
● On the first Friday in April.
● Arrival of the spring.
● Colouring eggs with onionskins.
● Traditional foods are pasha and butter of eggs.
● Kicking eggs.
Pasha
Pasha description
● Pasha is a traditional Easter dessert. It is
traditionally baked in a special wooden mold that
has the orthodox Easter symbols carved into the
sides so that they are impressed on the dessert
when it is unmolded. For the clearest impression of
the designs when using a pasha mold, use no more
than two layers of cheesecloth. If you don't have a
pasha mold, a clean five to six inch clay or plastic
flower pot with drain holes on the bottom makes a
rather pretty substitute.
Ingredients
● 200 g butter
● 750 g milk curds
● 3 eggs
● 200 ml whipped cream
● 50 ml sugar
● 100 ml raisins
● 50 ml candied citrus zest
● 50 ml slivered almonds
● 2.5 ml ground ginger
● 2.5 ml ground cloves
● 2.5 ml ground cinnamon
● 10 ml lemon juice
Whip the cream
with a sugar
Added all the
others ingredients
Placeing the
mixture into the
mold
Directions
● Whip the cream with the sugar until it holds stiff peaks.
● Melt the butter; when it is hot, combine it with the milk
curds and eggs; add all the remaining ingredients; let cool;
● Gently fold the whipped cream into this mixture;
● Line a pasha mold with thin gauze or cheesecloth; place
the mixture into the mold; let drain for a day, pressing
down on it from time to time; keep in a cool place or in the
crisper of the refrigerator;
Egg wrapping
Wrapped eggs
Boiling the eggs
First we failed
Got many beautiful eggs
Egg kicking
Sprat sandwiches with eggs