Thank You, Georgios! Happy Christmas!
Russia - the multinational state but the most part of the population - orthodox.
The calendar of orthodox church differs from Catholic, and the holiday of Christmas in Russia is marked on January, 7th.
It is the state holiday.
Both in the first, and in the second cases Christmas Eve is, first of all, a family supper. All family set the table.
And on a table there should be a hay (straw), and on hay - straw - a cloth. Or hay, in memory of a den and a day nursery. In the center it is put SOCHIVO (сочиво). Then other twelve dishes: pancakes, a fish, aspic, студень, a dairy pig, a pork head with a horse-radish, house sausage, hot, колядки, honey gingerbreads, ломанцы with a poppy and honey, взвар. On this set were applied also drinks, that already depend especially on taste and opportunities of the owner. On Belarus kvass and, strangely enough, moonshine have been widespread медовуха.
If with many traditional dishes all is clear. In sense does not cause difficulties in preparation, for example, with such as сочиво, колядки, взвар I have collided for the first time. By simple, but enough labour-consuming manipulations, me have been found and carefully summarized some recipes which I and transfer you.
So, SOCHIVO
For it 1 glass of grains of wheat, 100 gram of a poppy, 100 gram of kernels of walnuts, 2-3 table spoons of honey and sugar to taste is required.
For SOCIVO in advance prepared grain of wheat - all over again it толкут in a wooden mortar by a wooden pestle, periodically adding there water is used. This procedure is directed on clearings of grain of an environment. Then grain clean, sift, wash out in several waters, dry and cook a simple fast porridge. It should it will turn out friable. Then it cool and season with honey.
Separately pound a poppy before reception макового молочка, add honey. Everyone mix and add in a porridge. If this mix has turned out too dense, there it is possible to add waters. In last turn add kernels of nuts which can be roasted preliminary up to a crisp.
SOCHIVO it is possible to make and from fig. It is possible to add and the steamed out raisin, however is already trends of the present. Sometimes сочиво did of several groats, adding wood nuts and жженый sugar. All depend on region and taste the mistress, naturally.
KOLJADKI (Колядки).
The given food is widespread in Russia, however more and at us in some regions all the same meets. Therefore, I think, it deserves our attention.
Колядки or gates are the small baked products from the rye fresh test with various stuffings, fruit liqueurs, намазками or припеками. Колядки is both songs колядовщиков and entertainments for them.
Strangely enough, but колядки as food, are widespread enough in Finland. There them submit to coffee at breakfast, to a broth or soup at dinner, to easy evening salad by a supper, and, at last, as snack. Here all depends on structure. To a word, in Finland колядки refer to as gates and are considered as especially national dish. And in different regions of this Scandinavian country колядки look and prepare differently. Identical there is only a dough - rye and fresh.
So, we smoothly send to the test. It can be prepared from one rye flour, and can and from a mix wheaten and rye in equal proportions. For preparation of the given dish it is necessary to take 2 glasses of the flour, one glass of a liquid (water, milk, curdled milk, sour cream in any parities), it is possible to add salt on a tip of a knife.
The involved dough should be left for 20-30 minutes, having covered with a napkin. Then to unroll a dough in a plait, to cut on equal slices, to roll up balls, to unroll thin flat cakes. And here it is possible to dream. It is possible to make колядки round, it is possible - oval, triangular. Yes, what want! Then to put a stuffing and защипать or to bend edges.
Колядки it is necessary to bake at temperature 200-220 With up to readiness. Baked hot колядки to grease with the kindled oil or oil with sour cream. Колядки with porridges, a potato, mushrooms submitted to soups, a russian cabbage soup, and snow stuffings - to tea, медовухе, to milk.
Certainly, it is possible and to not prepare by tradition, but present reaction of your visitors when you will represent them so exotic for modern people, dishes. For one evening it is possible to pass for the uncommon and original person, and at the same time - the excellent mistress.
By the way, do not forget about hay - straw under a snow-white cloth!
Best wiwes once more to all from Russia, Lidia