WE ALL CAME HERE FROM SOMEWHERE TRADITIONAL LATVIAN

WE ALL CAME HERE FROM SOMEWHERE TRADITIONAL LATVIAN CUISINE OLAINE SECONDARY SCHOOL No 1 OLAINE 2012

by Sabīne Fukse and Undīne Haritonova, Form 9 b Olaine Secondary School No 1 2012

• Small vegetable tart called Sklandarauši, • Grey Peas with Bacon • Steaming cabbage • Bacon Buns • Caraway cheese • Tarts • Curd flat breadlike cakes

Ingredients: • rye or wheat flour • water • margarine • sugar • eggs • honey • sour cream • salt • carrots • potatoes • milk • butter

• 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.

Ingredients: • grey peas • bacon • onions • black peppers • salt

• 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.

Ingredients: • sauerkraut • bacon • garlic • bay-leaves • sugar • black peppers

• First, boil cabbage. • Then, add fried bacon • Finally, put spices.

• Serve cabbage with potatoes, meatballs or sausages.

Ingredients: • flour • milk • yeast • butter • eggs • sugar • salt

• 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.

Ingredients: • cottage cheese • milk • sour cream • eggs • salt • caraway seeds • butter

• 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.

Ingredients: • flour • yeast • butter • cinnamon • salt • powdered sugar • eggs • apples, cottage cheese, • sugar rhubarbs and more. . . • milk

• 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.

• 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.

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

• 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.