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TRADITIONAL LATVIAN CUISINE

OLAINE SECONDARY SCHOOL No 1

OLAINE 2012

TRADITIONAL LATVIAN CUISINE

by Sabīne Fukse and Undīne Haritonova,

Form 9 b

Olaine Secondary School No 1

2012

TRADITIONAL LATVIAN FOOD IS:

• Small vegetable tart called Sklandarauši,

• Grey Peas with Bacon

• Steaming cabbage

• Bacon Buns

• Caraway cheese

• Tarts

• Curd flat breadlike cakes

SKLANDRAUŠI – SMALL VEGETABLE TARTS

Ingredients:

• rye or wheat flour• water• margarine• sugar• eggs

• honey• sour cream• salt• carrots• potatoes

•milk •butter

HOW TO COOK?

• First,make pastry for tart base.

• Then,make little bowls where later put prepared tart filling.

• After that, make tart filling - boil potatoes and carrots, then blend them separately.

• Then, previously made pastry forms fill with blended vegetables

• Finally, bake tarts in the oven.

GREY PEAS WITH BACON

• grey peas

• bacon

• onions

• black peppers

• salt

Ingredients:

HOW TO COOK?

• First, put peas into the water for about twelve hours ( it’s better to leave them in water for a night)

• Second,boil peas until they are tender.

• Then, cut bacon and onions.

• After that, fry them.

• Finally, put the ready peas in the bowl, add fried bacon and onions.

• Serve it with kefir or natural yoghurt.

STEAMING CABBAGE

•sauerkraut•bacon•garlic•bay-leaves

•sugar•black peppers

Ingredients:

HOW TO COOK?

• First, boil cabbage.

• Then, add fried bacon

• Finally, put spices.

• Serve cabbage with potatoes, meat, meatballs or sausages.

BACON BUNS

• flour• milk• yeast• butter

• eggs• sugar• salt

Ingredients:

HOW TO COOK?

• First, dissolve yeast •in warm milk.

• Second, add egg, salt, sugar and flour to yeast.

•Then, dissolve butter, add oil and mix them with milk mass.

•After that, cut bacon and onions, fry them.

• Finally, make buns filled with bacon. Then bake them in the oven.

•Serve them with tea or coffee.

CARAWAY CHEESE

• cottage cheese• milk• sour cream• eggs

• salt• caraway seeds • butter

Ingredients:

HOW TO COOK?

• First, boil milk and cottage cheese together.

• Second, wait until they separate.

• Then, pour off milk from this mass.

• After that, add eggs, caraway seeds, sugar and salt to the boiled cheese.

• Finally, put your cheese in the gauze and tie it, then put something heavy on and let it stand for a night.

• Serve it with tea, coffee, beer.

TARTS

• flour• butter• salt• eggs• sugar• milk

•yeast• cinnamon• powdered sugar• apples, cottage cheese, rhubarbs and more ...

Ingredients:

HOW TO COOK?

• First, make yeast pastry ( the same as for bacon buns).

•Cut apples or rhubarbs into the small pieces, add sugar and cinnamon.

•Add sugar and cinnamon to the cottage cheese.

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HOW TO COOK?• Roll out the ready

pastry and put it on the pan.

• Then, put apples or rhubarbs or cottage cheese on the pastry.

• Finally, put the tart in the oven to bake.

• Serve it with hot tea , coffee or milk.

CURD FLAT BREADLIKE CAKES

• cottage cheese• eggs• sugar• salt• flour• sour cream• vanilla sugar

Ingredients:

HOW TO COOK?

• First, mix cottage cheese, sugar, eggs and vanilla sugar in the bowl.

• Then, add flour and keep mixing products together.

• After that, start to fry flat breadlike cakes on the pan.

• Finally decorate it with powdered sugar.

• Serve it with jam, fresh blended berries or sour cream.

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