Sunday, April 19, 2009
Monday, April 13, 2009
Potica
This is a recipe for Slovene traditional dessert. We prepare it for Christmas and Easter.
Ingredients:
- 1 kg of flour
- ½ l of milk
- 10 dag of sugar
- 12 dag of butter
- 1 small spoon of salt
- 2 spoons of rum
- 1 spoon of fat
- 2 egg yolks
- 3 dag of yest
Put the yeast into the warm water. Mix the warm milk, the sugar the butter, salt and the flour together. Add the yeast and the yolks. Add a spoon of fat, then mix and knead into smooth dough. Cover it with a clean cloth and leave in warm place for a while. Roll out the dough. Put the filling on the dough and roll together. Put in the baking tin and leave it rise for a while, then apply the mixture of cream and eggs on the top and bake in an oven.
Prepare the filling from:
- 3-5 dl of milk
- 2 spoons of honey
- 15-30 dag of sugar
- 50 dag of ground walnuts
- 2 spoons of breadcrumbs
- 10 dag of butter
- lemon peel
- a pinch of cinnamon
Mix the ground walnuts, the sugar and honey together. Pour hot milk over the mixture and add butter, lemon peel and cinnamon. When it cools down, add the egg yolks and the rum and some breadcrumbs.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Happy Easter from Greece
After the recipe for our good, hearty Easter soup here is what we drew for you...
HAPPY EASTER (ΚΑΛΟ ΠΑΣΧΑ)
Mageiritsa. Easter Soup.
(a recipe for six persons)
Ingredients
· liver, lungs, heart and intestines of young lamb, and lamb’s feet
· 1 cup spring onions
· 1 cup chopped dill
· ½ cup extra virgin olive oil
· 2 eggs and juice of 2-3 lemons
· 1 teaspoon oregano and ½ teaspoon fresh thyme
· 1 cup dry white wine
The making
Prepare the organs:
· blanch in boiling water for about 3 minutes
· remove from boiling water, let the meet cool and cut into small pieces in a large pot, and the extra virgin oil.
· saute lamb’s feet for 3 minutes
· add the small organ pieces and continue to sauté for another 3-4 minutes
· add 7 cups of water cover pot and cook at low temperature for 1 hour
· add the onions and dill to the pot
· cover and simmer for another 30 min until the liquid is reduced
· turn off the heat and rest for 15 min.
Prepare the Avqolemono sauce:
· beat the eggs
· add the lemon juice a little at a time beating continuously
· while beating, pour in some of the warm both from the pot blend the soup
· add slowly the egg-lemon mixture into the soup and stir lightly
· adjust to medium-heat and bring soup to a simmer without letting it boil
· add salt and pepper to taste
· remove from heat and serve.
(a recipe for six persons)
Ingredients
· liver, lungs, heart and intestines of young lamb, and lamb’s feet
· 1 cup spring onions
· 1 cup chopped dill
· ½ cup extra virgin olive oil
· 2 eggs and juice of 2-3 lemons
· 1 teaspoon oregano and ½ teaspoon fresh thyme
· 1 cup dry white wine
The making
Prepare the organs:
· blanch in boiling water for about 3 minutes
· remove from boiling water, let the meet cool and cut into small pieces in a large pot, and the extra virgin oil.
· saute lamb’s feet for 3 minutes
· add the small organ pieces and continue to sauté for another 3-4 minutes
· add 7 cups of water cover pot and cook at low temperature for 1 hour
· add the onions and dill to the pot
· cover and simmer for another 30 min until the liquid is reduced
· turn off the heat and rest for 15 min.
Prepare the Avqolemono sauce:
· beat the eggs
· add the lemon juice a little at a time beating continuously
· while beating, pour in some of the warm both from the pot blend the soup
· add slowly the egg-lemon mixture into the soup and stir lightly
· adjust to medium-heat and bring soup to a simmer without letting it boil
· add salt and pepper to taste
· remove from heat and serve.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Kengyel, Hungary
Dear Partners,
In the following video you can see how a traditional sprinkling usually takes place in Hungary.
Friday, April 3, 2009
Kengyel, Hungary
If you like the art of folding paper figures, you can try to give birth to these bunnies.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Easter celebrations in Slovenia
Easter celebrations in Slovenia start a week before Easter Sunday, on Palm Sunday. On that day we remember Jesus`s coming to Jerusalem. People, especially children bring little bundles to church to be blessed. They are made of ivy, heather, coloured wood shavings. Some people add fruit, like oranges or paper flowers.
Children who take bundles to church "earn" sweets and Easter eggs for their good deed.
The real Easter celebration starts on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. On Saturday housewives prepare Easter basket with food which they take to church to get blessing from priest. In the basket there is bread, potica, ham , horse radish and of course Easter eggs. Easter eggs can be coloured with special colour or in cooked in onion peelings.
The basket should be covered with a cloth.
On Easter Sunday most of religious people go to the morning mass and procession. Afterwards they`ve got Easter breakfast.
On Easter Monday we`ve got the day off and we go to visit relatives and friends.
In the past it was a tradition that young men used to visit their sweethearts who gave them an Easter egg.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
BULGARIA - EASTER
Dear friends,
All forward Easter. So it is in Bulgaria. But the difference in calendars is the reason we are looking forward to this holiday at different times. Here still not talking about Easter, I will suggest something that was working on my students last school year. At the end of April will see new materials.
Rositsa
Friday, March 27, 2009
Kengyel, Hungary
Easter is the most important festival in the church year. It begins with Good Friday. Christians believe in Resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his Crucifixion.
In Kengyel you can find two churches in a beautiful park opposite the Mayor's Office.
Our Church is lavishly decorated with flowers (daffodils and lilies) at Easter. On Saturday many people go to church and you can see the tradition of Easter Procession. People take their Easter ham and Easter eggs to sanctify them by the priest.
We send lots of postcards to our relatives. Traditional Easter foods are Easter egg with ham, stuffed cabbage and cold pork in aspic (meat jelly). Children believe that Easter Bunny brings the eggs. Boys go sprinkling girls in the morning. They recite a short poem:
Get up from your pillows
My violet beautiful
Look out of the window
The World is so wonderful.
I water you with some dew of sky
Let your bag fill up with red eggs of mine.
Then they sprinkle the girls using some eau de cologne. Girls welcome friends and relatives to their house. They offer them some soft drinks and cakes. Sometimes boys water them with a pail of water. It isn't very pleasant. Girls give the boys some red Easter eggs and some money, too. Many boys have got a lot of money by the end of the day. The sprinkled ones must wash their hair in the evening.
In Kengyel you can find two churches in a beautiful park opposite the Mayor's Office.
Our Church is lavishly decorated with flowers (daffodils and lilies) at Easter. On Saturday many people go to church and you can see the tradition of Easter Procession. People take their Easter ham and Easter eggs to sanctify them by the priest.
We send lots of postcards to our relatives. Traditional Easter foods are Easter egg with ham, stuffed cabbage and cold pork in aspic (meat jelly). Children believe that Easter Bunny brings the eggs. Boys go sprinkling girls in the morning. They recite a short poem:
Get up from your pillows
My violet beautiful
Look out of the window
The World is so wonderful.
I water you with some dew of sky
Let your bag fill up with red eggs of mine.
Then they sprinkle the girls using some eau de cologne. Girls welcome friends and relatives to their house. They offer them some soft drinks and cakes. Sometimes boys water them with a pail of water. It isn't very pleasant. Girls give the boys some red Easter eggs and some money, too. Many boys have got a lot of money by the end of the day. The sprinkled ones must wash their hair in the evening.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Easter in Poland
Polish Easter “Palms”
Because palms do not grow naturally in Poland, Polish people are use pussywillow or tree branches and decorate them with ribbons. Sometimes they use dried flowers to create “ palms” These are later blessed, in place of palms, on Palm Sunday at church.
Easter
The Saturday before Easter, traditional foods are taken to church to be blessed.
On Saturday people take to churches decorated baskets (Swieconka) containing a sampling of food to be blessed: eggs, ham, sausage, salt, fruit, bread and sugar Easter lamb.
Poland has its own Easter tradition of decorated eggs called “pisanki”. These may be dyed, decorated using a wax removal method, painted or colored with paper or fabric.
On Easter Sunday morning, a special Resurrection Mass is celebrated in every church in Poland. At this Mass, a procession of priests, altar boys and the people circles the church three times while the church bells peal and the organ is played for the first time since they had been silenced on Good Friday.
On the Easter table you can see colored eggs, cold meats, coils of sausages, ham, fruit cakes, poppy-seed cakes. Polish Easter Soup called Żurek or White Barscz is often served at the Easter meal, with the hard-boiled eggs and sausage.
Monday (just after aster) is a holiday in Poland and is called in polish "Lany Poniedzialek" or "Smigus- Dyngus". This is a wonderful day of fun.
The ancient Polish tradition on Easter Monday, is celebrated by everyone with enthusiasm by sprinkling each other with water or perfume. Especially kids have fun this day.
Because palms do not grow naturally in Poland, Polish people are use pussywillow or tree branches and decorate them with ribbons. Sometimes they use dried flowers to create “ palms” These are later blessed, in place of palms, on Palm Sunday at church.
Easter
The Saturday before Easter, traditional foods are taken to church to be blessed.
On Saturday people take to churches decorated baskets (Swieconka) containing a sampling of food to be blessed: eggs, ham, sausage, salt, fruit, bread and sugar Easter lamb.
Poland has its own Easter tradition of decorated eggs called “pisanki”. These may be dyed, decorated using a wax removal method, painted or colored with paper or fabric.
On Easter Sunday morning, a special Resurrection Mass is celebrated in every church in Poland. At this Mass, a procession of priests, altar boys and the people circles the church three times while the church bells peal and the organ is played for the first time since they had been silenced on Good Friday.
On the Easter table you can see colored eggs, cold meats, coils of sausages, ham, fruit cakes, poppy-seed cakes. Polish Easter Soup called Żurek or White Barscz is often served at the Easter meal, with the hard-boiled eggs and sausage.
Monday (just after aster) is a holiday in Poland and is called in polish "Lany Poniedzialek" or "Smigus- Dyngus". This is a wonderful day of fun.
The ancient Polish tradition on Easter Monday, is celebrated by everyone with enthusiasm by sprinkling each other with water or perfume. Especially kids have fun this day.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
BULGARIA - SPRING's tradition
It is ancient festival of Yough and Spring. It is related with Christian religion. Lazarki are the girls nearly young ladies. Via this ritual they say that they aren't not longer children. And today, you can see girls, dressed in national costumes with garlands of flowers on their heads. They visit the houses in the village, singing tipycal songs, dansing tipycal dances and wishing Health, Happiness and fertility.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
BULGARIA - SPRING's BULGARIAN TRADITION
SPRING is coming...
Can you feel it?
We have an old tradition in Bulgaria. It is maybe more than 1300 years.
For first day of March we twist MARTENICI from white and red threds.
We hang up them ourselves, our friends, our homes, pets.
We wear them for the HEALTH till we see the first swallow.
Then we hang them on a fruit tree.
And we enjoy to the beautiful Bulgarian Nature - the wonderful place where our country is situated.
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