Shrovetide is, of course, pancakes. However, not only them everything is limited! In this article we will tell you all about how to celebrate your favorite Russian holiday, incl. and what to cook for Shrovetide to make it festive, tasty and fun!
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For some, Maslenitsa is associated with mass merry festivities, some see it as a preparation before Lent, others remember the famous cartoon by Robert Sahakyan: "Look, you, Maslenitsa." All these versions will be correct and correct, because Maslenitsa is a multifaceted holiday that contains a large number of symbols and meanings. But still, what is Maslenitsa, and how is it celebrated?
How is it traditionally celebrated and what is prepared for Shrovetide?
Shrovetide is an ancient Slavic holiday, which, according to history, has always been the longest of the year. The emergence of Shrovetide goes deep into the past, and consists of scraps of chronicles and letters. They show that the holiday originated from a pagan culture, which survived after the adoption of Christianity, and became the eve of Great Lent before Easter.
What date is Maslenitsa celebrated? It is celebrated differently every year! For example, in 2016 it is celebrated from 7 to 13 March. And in 2015 it was celebrated from 16 to 22 February.
After the adoption of Christianity, the last week before the coming Great Lent in the Orthodox Church calendar began to be called "Cheese Week". The meaning of Cheese Week is forgiveness of offenses, reconciliation of neighbors, and preparation before Great Lent. This time should be fun because there are 7 weeks of strict restrictions ahead. Each day of a given week has certain interesting customs and characteristics.
According to Christian canons, on Shrovetide it is still allowed to eat dairy products (milk, kefir, cheese, cottage cheese and eggs), fish dishes are allowed, while meat is no longer allowed. An indispensable attribute of Shrovetide - pancakes, which had ritual significance - were a symbol of the sun. They were usually baked from buckwheat, rye or wheat flour. Various seasonings and sauces were served to them.
The presence of a lot of fatty foods and intoxicating drinks at the solemn feasts was characteristic. In addition to pancakes, a variety of flour products were traditionally prepared: pancakes, cakes, flat cakes, potato pancakes, brushwood and all kinds of pies. Also Shrovetide feasts were distinguished by a large abundance of fish dishes: fried and stewed crucians and carps, salted and smoked herring and jellied fish. But the main signature dish of this holiday is still pancakes, which we are used to cooking according to our favorite recipe. Well Maslenitsa is a great opportunity to experiment and learn new amazing recipes for pancakes, because they can be not only sweet, but also vegetable, meat and fish.
Flour for pancakes: variety of types
We are usually used to baking wheat flour pancakes. However, there are other types of it: rye, oatmeal, rice, buckwheat, pea and corn flour.
- Wheat flour is obtained by grinding food grains and is the main raw material for the confectionery, bakery and pasta industries.
- Rye flour does not form gluten, but it contains more active enzymes that break down starch. Some properties prevail in it significantly more than in wheat flour, for example, iron by 30%, and magnesium and potassium - by 1.5-2 times.
- Buckwheat flour is good for allergy sufferers, but it is not very suitable for pancakes due to the lack of stickiness. Therefore, buckwheat pancakes are baked only in company with wheat flour, otherwise they will simply fall apart.
- Rice flour pancakes are a very capricious product, they do not turn out thin and transparent and will also fall apart. Therefore, it is preferable to buy them ready-made.
- Corn flour can only be combined with wheat flour, and even then, if it is of the finest grinding.
- Oat flour is great for pancakes, especially when combined with oat bran. Then the pancakes turn out to be dietary and in a beautiful small brown dot.
- Pea flour produces thin and crispy Indian-style pancakes. It can glue anything you want, so you don't even need to add eggs to the dough.
Weekly Pancake Menu
We will not deviate from the habits of our ancestors, and we will tell you how they traditionally walked and what they cooked for Shrovetide.
Monday - "meeting"
The first day of the Maslenitsa holiday begins on Monday. From old clothes, straw and other improvised materials, they made a stuffed animal of a fat and large woman, impaled it on a stake and installed it on the main square. Women, putting aside household chores, went to the inn to drink a glass, have fun, and talk about life. If men wanted to join them, then they put “pads” on their necks (small boards tied with a long ribbon). They could be removed only by exposing the maharich to the young ladies.
Also on Monday, all families began to bake pancakes, while the first baked pancake was given to a beggar, poor and needy person so that he could remember the souls of deceased relatives and loved ones. All people invited friends and relatives to taste pancakes. But the father-in-law with the mother-in-law in the morning sent the daughter-in-law to the mother and father to come to visit the matchmakers in the evening. We offer to open the butter week with yeast pancakes and milk.
Pancakes with milk: recipe
Ingredients:
- Wheat flour - 220 g
- Milk - 2 cups (400 ml)
- Powdered sugar - 2 tablespoons
- Eggs - 1 pc.
- Salt - a pinch
- Vegetable or melted butter - 2.5 tablespoons
- Stir warm milk with icing sugar and salt.
- Beat eggs with a whisk.
- Sift the wheat flour into another container and add the beaten eggs. Mix well.
- Add milk and knead to a homogeneous dough.
- Pour in oil and stir.
- Heat the pan well, brush with vegetable oil and pour a portion of the dough (one ladle) on it, distribute it in a thin layer over the entire pan in a circular motion.
- Bake pancakes on both sides until sunny.
Yeast pancakes: recipe
Ingredients:
- Flour - 300 g
- Dry fast-acting yeast - 11 g
- Milk - 300 ml
- Sugar - 60 g
- Salt - a pinch
- Water - 200 ml
- Eggs - 2-3 pcs.
- Sunflower or olive oil - 100 ml
- Combine eggs, sugar, salt and beat thoroughly.
- Add remaining ingredients (sunflower oil, milk, yeast, flour, water) and stir until smooth.
- Place the dough in a draft-free place for one hour.
- When the dough doubles in volume, stir it to release air. Leave the dough to rise again. (!) Do not interfere.
- Heat the pan and brush the bottom of the pan with a little oil.
- Scoop up the dough with a ladle and pour it into the pan, letting it spread evenly. After the surface of the pancake is dry, turn the pancake over and bake until golden.
Tuesday - "flirting"
In common people, Tuesday was called "flirtation", that is. the boys flirted with the beauties, inviting them to ride a sleigh or go down the ice slides to the fervent ringing of bells. Watching such skating, people judged the fate of a person, which was prepared for him. For example, if you slide down the hill successfully, the next year will be successful. I drove the farthest - there will be a long life.
Many Shrovetide rituals boil down to matchmaking, so on Tuesday there were still bridesmaids to celebrate the wedding at the end of Lent. The bride's parents made dumplings with cottage cheese, pies and waited for their future son-in-law to visit, and the married women again had fun in the inn. Theatrical performances and merry amusements began on the streets of the city. Noise, din and laughter came from everywhere.
Also, on the second day of Maslenitsa, they prepared national Russian dishes - tsarist pancakes: with black and red caviar - for real men, and with red fish - for intellectuals. We invite you to cook these exquisite dishes.
Pancakes with salmon
Ingredients (pancakes):
- Flour - 320 g
- Chicken eggs - 4 pcs.
- Milk - 500 ml
- Salt - a pinch
- Sour cream - 300 ml
- Smoked salmon - 200 g
- Fresh dill - bunch
- Beat flour, salt, half of the milk with a blender, breaking all the lumps.
- Add eggs and remaining milk. Beat again and let the dough sit for 15 minutes.
- In a hot skillet, bake the pancakes on both sides until golden brown.
- Cut the salmon into 1 cm cubes and mix with the chopped dill and sour cream.
- Apply the filling on the pancake, wrap it in a roll, cut into pieces with which to serve the table.
Pancakes with red (black) caviar
Ingredients:
- Flour - 250 g
- Chicken eggs - 3 pcs.
- Baked milk - 400 ml
- Sugar - 50 g
- Vegetable oil - 60 ml
- Butter - 65 g
- Salt - a pinch
- Red or black caviar - 200 g
- In a bowl, combine eggs, salt, sugar and half of the milk.
- Add flour, pour in the rest of the milk, vegetable oil in again, knead the dough well.
- Heat a frying pan and fry the pancakes on both sides until golden brown.
- Put the finished pancakes in a stack, brushing them with soft butter.
- Place 1 tablespoon on the pancake. caviar and distribute it evenly. Roll the pancakes into a roll and stack them on a plate.
Wednesday - "gourmet"
Wednesday of Shrovetide Week was called "Lakomka". Each family on this day laid a rich table and ate pancakes as much as the soul desires. Especially, on this day, mother-in-law was preparing, since on Wednesday sons-in-law came to them for pancakes. But she rested her son-in-law not only with pancakes, but also treated with sbitn and honey cakes.
Honey sbiten: step by step recipe
Sbiten is an ancient Russian drink that is especially popular on Shrovetide and honey spas. Sbiten is consumed hot and cold. It is prepared from honey and spices, and, if desired, add brewed tea, red wine or vodka.
Ingredients:
- - 150 g
- A mixture of ground spices (cloves, coriander, cinnamon, ginger) - 1 tsp
- Water - 1.5 l
- Sugar - 1.5 tablespoons
- Lemon - half
- Heat water and add honey, spices and sugar.
- Boil the food and cook at low temperature for 5-10 minutes.
- Then add the sliced \u200b\u200blemon and turn off the heat. Close the saucepan with a lid and leave the drink for 20-30 minutes.
- Then, if desired, alcoholic drinks or freshly brewed tea can be added to the sbiten to taste.
Honey gingerbread: a step by step recipe
Fragrant, beautiful and delicious honey cakes from old Russian cuisine will create a pleasant holiday mood for everyone.
Ingredients:
- Honey - 300 g
- Flour - 600 g
- Eggs - 3 yolks and 1 whole
- Vanilla - 1 tsp
- Drinking water - 1 glass
- Lemon zest and lemon juice - 0.5 lemon
- Ground spices (nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon, anise) - 1.5 tsp.
- Sugar -? glasses
- Put honey in an enamel bowl and cover with hot water. Stir until dissolved and cool.
- In another container, 3 yolks and one whole egg, mash with sugar. Add ground spices, vanillin, baking soda, zest and lemon juice. Beat the products with a mixer until firm foam.
- Pour the dissolved honey into the beaten eggs and gradually add flour.
- Put the resulting mass on a floured countertop, knead the dough that is not steep, and leave it for 5-6 hours.
- Then knead the dough again, cut it into pieces and roll it out. Cut out the shapes or shapes and place them on a floured baking sheet.
- Bake the gingerbread cookies in the oven for 40 minutes at 180 degrees. Grease them hot with an egg, and when cool, beat the egg white with sugar and draw patterns on them.
Thursday - "wide Thursday" - "revelry, break"
On Thursday, all household work stopped, especially it was forbidden to sew and spin, and a wide celebration began. People walked, had fun, fist fights, rode horses, organized competitions, which were accompanied by the use of all kinds of food and eating pancakes. Even on Thursday evening, the son-in-law should go to his mother-in-law, bow to the belt and invite her the next day to his home for a pancake dinner. On a wide Thursday, a wild day, it is customary to bake figurines from butter dough, which are the harbingers of spring: larks, doves and swallows.
Butter yeast dough on dough
Ingredients:
- Flour - 3 tbsp. l. for dough and 3 glasses for dough
- Milk - 250 ml
- Dry yeast - 30 g
- Powdered sugar - 1 tablespoon for dough and 100 g for baking
- Chicken eggs - 2 pcs.
- Vegetable oil - 1 tablespoon
- Salt - a pinch
- Butter - 120 g
- Make a dough. Put 1 tablespoon in warm milk (35–40 ° C). icing sugar, yeast, 3 tbsp. flour and stir until all ingredients are dissolved. Leave the dough for half an hour. After this time, a lush "cap" will turn out, which will later fall off, and bubbles will appear on the surface - the dough is ripe.
- In a separate bowl, combine the muffins: soft butter, eggs, sugar.
- Combine and mix: dough, pastry and flour, so that the dough becomes elastic and smooth.
- Form a soft yeast dough into a lump, place in a saucepan, cover with a clean towel and leave in a kitchen cabinet for 1–2 hours. After this time, the dough will rise well.
- Crumple the dough and form it into figures, which are put on a greased baking sheet. Bake the pastry in the oven for 40 minutes at 180 degrees. In this case, after 20 minutes, grease the product with whipped egg yolk.
Friday - "mother-in-law's evening" - "guest day"
On Friday, the mother-in-law paid a return visit to her son-in-law for the pancakes baked by her daughter. After that, in the evening, the son-in-law must roll the mother-in-law through the streets of the village or city. Moreover, the quality of skiing depends on the mother-in-law's character. The angry and grumpy is driven over bumps and uneven roads, and the kind and gentle one is driven along a smooth plain. On this day, you can bake a variety of pancakes, incl. and beer halls.
Pancakes on beer: recipe
Ingredients:
- Baked milk - 250 ml
- Honey - 4.5 tablespoons
- Salt - a pinch
- Ghee butter - 3.5 tablespoons
- Flour - 250 g
- Chicken eggs - 2 pcs.
- Beer - 200 ml
- Heat milk, honey, salt, but do not boil.
- Put butter in warm milk and stir to dissolve. Remove food from heat.
- In another container, mix flour with eggs and stirring vigorously in a thin stream, pour in the hot milk mixture. The dough should be smooth.
- Pour in beer, stir and leave the dough for 30-45 minutes.
- Heat the pan. Before baking the first pancake, brush it with butter and bake the pancakes on both sides until golden brown.
- Ready-made pancakes can be served with sour cream, honey or jam. And also you can wrap any filling in them, both sweet and salty.
Saturday - "sister-in-law's gatherings"
On Saturday evening, the main rite of Maslenitsa took place - the burning of a scarecrow. Our ancestors considered this Shrovetide fire to be some kind of magic. For example, people threw unnecessary things into the fire, and with them all the troubles of the past year. Then the ash was blown across the field, which promised a good harvest. According to old beliefs, fire possessed magical power, and cleansed a person from negativity and sorrows. On Saturday evening, the Pancake week should be bursting with an abundance of flour dishes: dumplings with cherries, chicken pies and various pies.
Cherries for dumplings can be used fresh, frozen or canned. Dumplings are steamed or boiled in water.
Ingredients:
- Flour - 300 g
- Kefir - 250 ml
- Soda -? tsp
- Salt - a pinch
- Powdered sugar - how much will it take
- Cherries - 350 g
- Pour kefir into a bowl, add salt, soda and stir.
- Add flour gradually and knead to a soft dough that does not stick to your hands.
- Make a sausage from the dough, cut it into pieces, which you flatten by hand into a thin cake 3 mm thick.
- Place 4-6 pitted cherries and 1 tsp in the middle of the flatbread. icing sugar. Pinch the edges.
- Steam the dumplings in a double boiler or water. If you want to steam, but there is no steamer, then make a steam bath as follows. Boil water in a wide saucepan with cheesecloth stretched over it. Then put the dumplings on cheesecloth, leaving 3 cm between them, cover them with a lid and cook for 5 minutes.
If you want to boil dumplings in water, then dip them in a saucepan of boiling water. Stir to keep them from sticking together and cook until they float to the surface. This usually happens in 3-5 minutes.
Kurnik
Kurnik is a Russian pie, which is called a tsar's pie, the king of pies or a festive pie. It is served on special occasions, incl. and on Shrovetide.
Ingredients:
- Butter (preferably homemade) - 100 g
- Sour cream - 110 g
- Soda - 0.5 tsp
- Salt - a pinch
- Flour - 2 cups
- Meat - 500 g
- Potatoes - 2 pcs.
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Eggs - 1 pc.
- Melt the butter and cool. Add sour cream, salt, baking soda and beat in an egg. Mix everything.
- Sift the flour, add the sour cream and butter mixture and knead a light dough, cover it with cling film and leave for 1 hour.
- In the meantime, prepare the filling. Chop the meat, potatoes and onions very finely with a sharp knife, add salt and pepper. Stir.
- Divide the dough into two parts in the following proportions: 2/3 and 1/3.
- Roll out most of it 5 mm thick and place on a baking sheet lined with parchment.
- Step 5 cm away from the edges, distribute the filling evenly.
- Roll out the second piece of dough and place on top. Pin the edges and make cuts in the center with a knife to let the steam out.
- Lubricate the chicken with a beaten egg and place in the oven for 40 minutes at 180 degrees.
Sunday - "Forgiven Sunday" - "Seeing off Shrovetide"
The last day of Cheese Week is called Forgiveness Sunday or farewell to Maslenitsa. On Sunday, the most magnificent and massive festivities, fun and games were held. We went around all relatives and friends, asked them for forgiveness for the grievances brought, so that the next day of Great Lent could begin with peace of mind. When meeting people, one had to bow three times, asking for mutual forgiveness, and kiss three times as a sign of reconciliation.
On the last Sunday of the Great Shrovetide, it is customary to gorge themselves on any goodies, because after it, Great Lent will come. In the evening, at a large table, the family got together again, where the main dish was pancakes, pancakes with cottage cheese, pancakes and pies with cabbage. And after supper they did another interesting ceremony - they rinsed their teeth. There was an opinion that if this is not done at the end of Maslenitsa, then the devils will stretch out the curd that remained in them along with their teeth.
Kefir pancakes
Ingredients:
- Kefir - 350 ml
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Flour - 200 g
- Salt - a pinch
- Powdered sugar - 2 tablespoons
- Baking soda - 1 tsp (can be replaced with baking powder)
- Lean oil - for frying
- Whisk eggs, icing sugar, salt.
- Add kefir, soda and gradually add flour. Substitute the thick dough, according to the consistency of fat sour cream.
- Heat a frying pan with butter and gently spread the dough with a tablespoon.
- Fry pancakes on both sides for 3 minutes until sunny and serve with honey or sour cream.
Pancake cake with sweet cottage cheese: recipe
Ingredients (pancakes):
- Flour - 6 tablespoons
- Chicken eggs - 3 pcs.
- Vegetable oil - 2.5 tablespoons
- Homemade milk - 500 ml
- Salt - a pinch
- Sugar or honey - 1 tablespoon
- Sweet curds - 400 g
- Sour cream or cream - 1 tablespoon
- Chicken egg - 1 pc.
- Whisk eggs, sugar, salt.
- Add flour, add vegetable oil and mix well.
- Pour in milk and stir.
- Preheat a skillet, brush it with vegetable oil (for the first pancake) and pour out the batter. Fry the pancakes on both sides until golden brown.
- Mix sweet curds, eggs and sour cream.
- Grease a baking dish well with butter. Assemble the cake by spreading cream over each pancake and brush with 2 tablespoons of the top pancake. sour cream.
- Bake the pie in the oven for 30-40 minutes until golden brown at 180 degrees. Cool it well afterwards.
Draniki: a step by step recipe
Appetizing and hot potato pancakes are an excellent solution for the last day of Shrovetide.
Ingredients:
- Potatoes - 4 pcs.
- Chicken eggs - 1 pc.
- Onion - ? PCS.
- Flour - 3 tablespoons
- Salt and ground pepper to taste
- Lean oil - for frying
- Sour cream - 2.5 tablespoons
- Grate peeled potatoes and onion or pass through a meat grinder. Squeeze out excess juice from the resulting mass.
- Beat an egg into the potato-onion mixture, add flour, salt, sour cream and ground pepper. Mix well.
- Heat a frying pan with oil. Spread out the potato dough with a tablespoon, and fry on both sides until golden brown.
- Put the finished potato pancakes on a paper towel so that it absorbs all the fat, and serve them hot with sour cream.
Ingredients:
- Fresh yeast - 30 g
- Flour - 4 glasses
- Carrots - 2 pcs.
- Powdered sugar - 2 tablespoons
- Onions - 1 pc.
- Cabbage - 300 g
- Drinking water - ? l
- Salt - 1 tsp
- Vegetable oil - 3 tablespoons
- Dissolve the yeast with warm water, add salt and powdered sugar, add oil and gradually add flour. Mix the products well so that the dough turns out to be liquid without lumps. Cover it with a napkin and let it sit for 1.5 hours.
- In a skillet in vegetable oil, fry the grated carrots and chopped onion in half rings until browning and soft. Then add the shredded cabbage. Season with salt, sugar, cover and simmer for 10-15 minutes.
- Place the matched dough on a plate sprinkled with flour, form a thick sausage, which is cut across into small pieces. Breaded each bite in flour and make a tortilla with the filling in the center. Form a patty.
- Grease a baking sheet with vegetable oil, put the pies and send them to bake in the oven for 40 minutes at 200 degrees. They can also be fried in oil in a hot skillet.
How is Maslenitsa celebrated in other countries?
The arrival of spring is celebrated in almost all of Europe. In the cities of Western Europe, Maslenitsa, or rather farewell to winter, turns into a national carnival. They forget about quarrels, and irrepressible fun and laughter reign. In Poland, on Sunday, the last day of the holiday, in a tavern, a violinist pleases unmarried girls with his light melody. In Scotland, it is customary to bake "lean cakes". In the Czech Republic, young boys smear their faces with soot and, to the music, go around the village, hanging a wooden block (klatik) around the girls' necks. In Iceland, a lavish feast is held, after which a variety of cakes are consumed. In France, winter is seen off with the Mardi Gras carnival, where pancakes and various snacks are prepared. In Switzerland and Germany, they also organize a Maslenitsa carnival along unlit streets with a theatrical procession. In schools in Denmark, costumed performances are held, where schoolchildren, through acquaintances, send comic letters to their friends, without a return address.
Pancake fortune telling on Shrovetide
The first baked pancake on the first Shrovetide day speaks of the future that awaits during the year:
- the pancake has straight edges - there will be a happy marriage. Uneven or torn - you need to think: is the narrowed one you are going to marry?
- the pancake easily turned over - marriage is ahead, and stuck to the pan - 3 years to be in the parent's house;
- a thin pancake - to a quiet life, but if thick - to hard work;
- the pancake is beautiful and ruddy - there will be a lot of health, and a pale one - to disease.
Maslenitsa - the oldest Slavic Maslenitsa holiday has come down to us with a predominance of its entertainment part, with round dances, bonfires, pancakes and indispensable invitations to visit. Even the Orthodox Church now considers Maslenitsa not a pagan holiday, but its own, Orthodox one and considers it as a preparation for a long Great Lent.
Until the 17th century, they tried to ban this holiday and persecuted those who celebrated it openly. It is clear that nothing came of this venture to eradicate "demonic fun", and the people defended their right to have fun in the last days of winter. Since the second half of the 18th century, the church "adapted" Shrovetide for its own purposes and did not forbid parishioners to participate in the general bacchanalia, while imposing certain restrictions on the composition of food suitable for food on these days, and strict "regulations" for prayers. Each of the seven (and up to the 17th century, fourteen) Shrovetide days had its own name.
By the beginning of the 20th century, all the names were mixed - ancient, church, folk, and now Maslenitsa is a celebration of the meeting of spring, cheerful, carefree, with abundant food and, most importantly, pancakes. On Shrovetide, you can eat any dishes that do not contain meat.
Fish dishes, pancakes, pies, chicken coppers, cheesecakes, pies, rolls, gingerbread, bagels.
From appetizers - caviar, pickles, cheeses, mushrooms. From drinks - sbiten, beer, kvass, fruit drink, mead, vodka.
Maslenitsa is perhaps one of the most controversial holidays of our people. Surprisingly, in our minds in this holiday merged both the pagan Komoeditsa (the holiday of the astronomical spring among the ancient Slavs), and the last of the three weeks (church weeks) before Lent, and the so-called "folk" Maslenitsa - riotous, gluttonous and, as talk, drunk holiday.
Unfortunately, it is the "people's" Maslenitsa, which was called the "All-Sense, All-Drunken and Extravagant Council" by the decree of Peter I, that now reigns in the cities and towns of our country. Shrovetide festivities are shown very brightly and prominently in the film "The Barber of Siberia". There is vodka like a river, and senseless fistfights in its severity, and penitential Forgiveness Sunday ...
Komoeditsa: the first pancake to the bear
But in ancient times Maslenitsa (more precisely, Komoeditsa) was a wonderful sunny holiday of the arrival of spring, the awakening of Nature from a long winter, and the beginning of a new year. Even the name of this holiday - Komoeditsa - was associated with the awakening ceremony of the Slavic Bear God. From early in the morning a solemn procession went into the forest: the great Honey Beast was carried "pancake sacrifices" - the first pancakes, which were laid out on the stumps. The Slavs called the bear Kom, and it was from here that the famous saying “The first pancake is coma” (that is, bears!) Originated. How interesting the language and concepts are changing ...
With the arrival of Christianity in Russia, the ancient holidays, rigidly tied to astronomical events (summer and winter solstices and spring and autumn equinoxes), were either erased from the people's memory, or replaced by church holidays that were appropriate in time.
Strictly speaking, Maslenitsa cannot be considered a holiday of spring, because it is still very far away! Shrovetide is celebrated almost a month before the astronomical spring. It had to be “moved”, otherwise the cheerful sunny holiday would have occurred in the midst of strict Great Lent. There has been a substitution of concepts that happens in the history of any country quite often, and especially in ours. One holiday of the Great October Revolution, established to replace the celebration of the day of the accession of the House of Romanov, replaced, in turn, by the Day of National Unity, which is worth it!
But be that as it may, we all love Shrovetide and celebrate it with pleasure. In the end, what is important is that this holiday brings us all joy, joy, and prepares believing citizens for the upcoming fast.
In Maslenitsa week, there are already some food restrictions in place. For example, you cannot eat meat. But you can eat plenty of pancakes, fish, eggs and dairy products.
Old cuisine for Shrovetide
Shrovetide is a great occasion to try to cook old dishes, so popular some 100-200 years ago. Old fermented milk dishes, unfortunately, are almost forgotten now, and in fact they are not only healthy, but also very tasty. You can cook varenets, kaymak or real homemade cottage cheese, which cannot be compared with the purchased one. Even the best.
The traditional dish on the Shrovetide table is, of course, pancakes. Yeast, leavened, wheat, buckwheat or millet, thick and fluffy or thin, delicate ... How many housewives - so many recipes! And the names of the old pancakes are: "lordly", "royal", "merchant", "boyar" ...
Leaven
Making sourdough for pancakes for Shrovetide
- Pour 150 ml of warm water into a 2-liter jar and add enough flour to make a dough with the consistency of thick sour cream. Cover the jar with a napkin and put in a warm place for a day. After a day, add 150 g of warm water with 1 tsp into the jar. honey, stir well and add flour to the consistency of thick sour cream.
- Cover with a napkin and place in a warm place for 12 hours. Then add 150 ml of warm water again, stir and stir in flour until thick sour cream. Put the jar in a warm place for 12 hours. After this time, the leaven is ready.
- It can be cooked with rye or wheat flour, however, wheat leaven lives much less than rye. After using the starter to make the dough, leave about 5-6 tablespoons in the jar. sourdough, add 150 ml of warm water and stir with flour until thick sour cream. Store in a cool place unless you plan to use the starter the next day.
Openwork pancakes with sourdough for Maslenitsa
You will need:
- 1 tbsp leaven,
- 2 eggs,
- 1.5 tsp honey,
- 1.5 tsp salt,
- 2 stacks flour,
- 100 ml fermented baked milk,
- 100 ml of milk
- 200 ml of water.
Preparation:
- Knead the leaven, flour, honey and salt together with fermented baked milk and 150 ml of water, mix and leave in a warm place for 1 hour. Then add 50 ml of boiling water, stir well, beat in eggs and pour in milk. Leave it on for another 1 hour. When bubbles appear on the surface, you can begin to bake the pancakes.
- But, in addition to pancakes, on the table this festive week there must certainly be cheesecakes - round and lush, also in some way a symbol of the sun, and pancake pies, a variety of dairy products, as well as egg dishes. Our site will tell you about some traditional and modern recipes for Pancake week.
Cheesecake "Tsarskaya"
You will need:
- 500 grams of low-fat cottage cheese,
- 5 eggs,
- 5-7 tbsp Sahara,
- 200 gr of butter,
- 1.5 stack. flour,
- salt to taste.
Preparation:
- Mash the egg yolks with sugar until white, beat the whites with a pinch of salt until a firm foam. Rub the curd through a sieve for a finer texture.
- Combine the yolks with cottage cheese, mix, add the whites and beat with a mixer until fluffy. Grate the frozen butter on a coarse grater, mix with flour and grind until grits are obtained.
- Pour half of the flour mixture on the bottom of the mold, put the cottage cheese and cover with the remaining crumbs. Place in an oven preheated to 180 ° C and bake until tender.
Drachena
You will need:
1.5 stack. flour,
10 yolks,
5 proteins,
1 stack heavy cream
1 tbsp butter,
1 tsp salt,
3 tbsp icing sugar.
Preparation:
- Mash the yolks with powdered sugar until they are white, gradually pour the cream into the mixture and stir until smooth. Add flour gradually and knead the dough. Season with salt and beat well. Beat the whites separately with a pinch of salt until stiff. Add gently to the dough, stirring from top to bottom.
- Pour into a greased baking dish or deep skillet and place in a hot oven for 15-20 minutes.
Kaymak
You will need:
- 3 cups cream
- 1 cup sugar
- ¼ a packet of vanilla sugar (natural),
- 1 lemon.
Preparation:
- Combine 2 cups of cream with sugar and vanilla sugar and cook over low heat until tender. The readiness of the kaymak is determined as follows: a drop immersed in cold water thickens to the consistency of sour cream. When boiling a kaymak, make sure that it does not burn. Cook best in a water bath.
- Cool the finished kaymak quickly (put the bowl in cold water), then beat with a spatula, adding lemon juice drop by drop. When the kaymak is thick and white, pour the remaining cream into it. Mix the mass well and refrigerate.
Kaimak is a great dessert that can be served alone or layered on waffles or cake.
Varenets
You will need:
- 1 liter of milk
- 250 ml cream
- ½ stack. sour cream,
- 1 yolk,
- 1 tbsp Sahara.
Preparation:
- Combine milk and cream in a saucepan and place in oven. As soon as foams appear on the surface, lower them with a spoon to the bottom and shake. Place one froth on a plate. Continue boiling milk until reduced by one third. Remove the boiled milk from the oven and cool to 40 ° C.
- Add sour cream mixed with yolk and sugar, whisk, pour into cups and place a piece of froth on top. Place in a warm place (30-40 ° C) until the varenets turn sour. Then refrigerate. Serve the varenets with sugar, cinnamon and croutons.
Cheese Shrovetide
Shrovetide is called "cheese" not because of the cheese. In ancient Russia, cheese was called cottage cheese. But nowadays there are so many wonderful cheese recipes that it is simply a sin not to use it. For example, here's a recipe for a savory cheese snack.
Cooking curdled milk and homemade cottage cheese
Cooking method:
- Boil milk (preferably rustic) and cool quickly in cold water to 35-40 ° C. Ferment the prepared milk with sour cream at the rate of ½ stack. for 1 liter of milk, pour into jars and place in a dark place at a temperature of 35-38 ° С. The yogurt will be ready in 6-10 hours.
- In order to prepare cottage cheese, first sew a special linen bag in the form of a cone and put two-day sour milk into it. Place the bag over a bowl and leave for 5-6 hours. After that, squeeze out the remaining whey by placing a bag of cottage cheese under a press weighing 3-4 kg and leave for 5-8 hours.
- As a result, you will get a delicate cottage cheese. It does not crumble, but breaks off in large plates. This is the so-called raw cottage cheese, since yogurt is not heated during its manufacture. Products made from such cottage cheese are tender, crumbly and airy.
Making Dehin from yogurt
Dehin is a traditional Indian dish, mentioned in Ayurveda. To prepare this cheese, you will need natural yogurt, and the freshest. You can make it yourself, but if you don't have yoghurt starter, buy natural yoghurt without fillers.
- Place a colander over a saucepan, line it with four-fold gauze and pour the yogurt into the colander. Wrap the ends of the fabric over the yogurt and seal the entire structure in plastic wrap.
- Refrigerate for 12-18 hours (for soft cheese) or overnight (for a denser structure). Ready-made Dekhin can be slightly salted.
Cheesecakes "Kievskie"
You will need:
- 500 gr of cottage cheese,
- ¾ stack. flour,
- 3 eggs,
- 3-4 tablespoons Sahara,
- 2-3 tbsp jam,
- 2 tbsp raisins,
- 50 grams of white crackers,
- 100 grams of butter
- 1 tbsp powdered sugar
- ½ stack. sour cream 20% fat,
- salt to taste.
Preparation:
- Rub the cottage cheese through a sieve, mix with sugar, 2 eggs, salt and flour and stir until smooth. Sort out the raisins, rinse and dry. Boil the raisins and jam until thick and cool. Divide the curd mass into pieces, roll it into round cakes 5-7 mm thick, put the boiled jam and make oval-shaped syrniki.
- Dip each cheesecake in a loose egg, bread in breadcrumbs and sauté in plenty of fat. Sprinkle with icing sugar when serving. Serve sour cream separately.
Have a bright and sunny Maslenitsa holiday!
Maslenitsa is an ancient traditional holiday of the Slavs, which has come to us since pre-Christian times. Earlier, however, it was celebrated much later, since it was with this holiday that people met spring. But now Maslenitsa begins a week before the beginning of Lent, and, in fact, this week continues. So, in 2019, the holiday begins on March 4 and will last until March 10 inclusive.
Since ancient times, the custom has been preserved to cook pancakes at this time, which symbolize the sun. According to Christian canons, it is still allowed to eat dairy products and fish on Shrovetide, but meat is no longer allowed.
Traditionally, they also cooked various flour products, fried, boiled, salted or smoked fish and put fish aspic on the table. Our editorial team has collected recipes that can be prepared on this holiday, except for pancakes.
What to cook for Shrovetide
Honey gingerbread
Shrovetide Wednesday was called "Gourmet". Especially for this day, mother-in-law was preparing, because then sons-in-law came to them for pancakes. But apart from them, mother-in-law often treated them to honey cakes.
Ingredients:
- flour - 4 1/4 cups
- sugar - 1 glass
- oil - 140 grams
- honey - 3 1/2 tbsp. spoons
- water - 1/2 cup
- soda - 1 teaspoon
- baking powder - 1 teaspoon
- salt - 1 teaspoon
- cinnamon - 1 1/2 teaspoons
- ground ginger - 1/2 teaspoon
- cloves - 1/2 teaspoon
- egg white - 1 piece
- powdered sugar - 1 1/2 cups
- lemon juice - 1 tbsp. the spoon
Recipe:
In a saucepan, stir together the sugar, honey and water. Put on medium heat and, stirring occasionally, wait for the sugar to dissolve. Then add oil and spices - cinnamon, ginger, cloves. Remove from heat when the butter has melted, then combine the flour, baking soda and baking powder in a large bowl. Next, pour a warm mixture of spices, sugar and butter into the flour. Stir and knead the dough, from which then form a ball, wrap with cling film and refrigerate overnight. The next day, you can cook gingerbread from the finished dough. Remove the dough from the refrigerator and preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Roll out the dough after it has reached room temperature, and cut the gingerbread with a special mold or knife. Cut gingerbread cookies can be sent to the oven, after covering the baking sheet with parchment paper. They are baked quite quickly - 5-6 minutes is enough for you!
Whisk the egg white, icing sugar and lemon juice until smooth. Put the mixture in a bag, at the end of which cut off the tip. Cover the gingerbread with icing and wait until it hardens.
Honey gingerbread
Sbiten
This is an old East Slavic drink made from water, honey and spices, which often included medicinal herbal preparations. It can be both alcoholic and non-alcoholic, and has completely different variations - spicy sbiten, intoxicated, winter sbiten, molasses sbiten, and the like. Let's talk about one of them - winter sbitna.
Ingredients:
- water - 4 glasses
- sugar - 0.5 cups
- honey - 5 tbsp. spoons
- cloves - 1 pc.
- cinnamon - 1 pc.
- bay leaf - 1 pc.
- cardamom - 2-3 pcs.
Recipe:
Pour 4 cups of water into a saucepan, put on fire and bring to a boil. Then add half a glass of sugar, 5 tablespoons of honey and various spices (cloves, cinnamon, bay leaves, cardamom) to boiling water. Boil for 10-15 minutes. Strain. Serve hot in a jug.
Sbiten
Dough figurines
You can also pamper with seven different figurines made from butter dough: larks, doves and swallows. It was customary to cook such products especially on Thursday - "Razgulyay", as it was called.
Ingredients:
- flour - 3 tbsp. l. for dough and 3 glasses for dough
- milk - 250 ml
- dry yeast - 30 g
- icing sugar - 1 tablespoon for dough and 100 g for baking
- chicken eggs - 2 pcs.
- sunflower oil - 1 tablespoon
- salt - a pinch
- butter - 120 g
Recipe:
First, prepare the dough: put the icing sugar, yeast, flour in warm milk (35-40 ° C) and stir until all products are completely dissolved. Leave the dough for half an hour. After this time, a lush "cap" will turn out, which will later fall off, and bubbles will appear on the surface - the dough is ripe.
In a separate bowl, combine the muffins: soft butter, eggs, sugar. Combine and mix: dough, pastry and flour, so that the dough becomes elastic and smooth. Form a soft yeast dough into a lump, put in a saucepan, cover with a clean towel and leave for 1-2 hours for the dough to come up. Then knead the dough into shapes and place on a greased baking sheet. Bake the bun for 40 minutes at 180 degrees. In this case, after 20 minutes, grease the product with whipped egg yolk.
Dough figurines can be decorated with glaze
Jerk off or Brawl
This dish is made with flour, eggs and milk. In some cases, jerky is very similar to an omelet, in others it is tougher - like baked cakes. The jerk off also had a ritual meaning: on the days of the commemoration, they went with her to the cemetery.
Ingredients:
- flour - 1.5 sc.
- yolks - 10 pcs.
- squirrels - 5 pcs
- fat cream - 1 sc.
- butter - 1 tablespoon
- salt - 1 tsp
- icing sugar - 3 tablespoons
Recipe:
Mash the yolks with powdered sugar until they are white, gradually pour the cream into the mixture and stir until smooth. Add flour gradually and knead the dough. Season with salt and beat well. Beat the whites separately with a pinch of salt until stiff. Add gently to the dough, stirring from top to bottom.
Pour into a greased baking dish or deep skillet and place in a hot oven for 15-20 minutes.
Wanked
Kurnik
According to custom on Saturday - "sister-in-law's gatherings", or rather, on Saturday evening the table was filled with flour dishes: dumplings with cherries, chicken pies and a variety of pies. By the way, the ritual of burning a scarecrow took place at the same time. People believed that fire possessed magical powers and cleansed a person from everything bad. Kurnik is also called the king's pie, the king of pies and festive. Although it is not customary in Christianity to eat meat during this period, if you do not follow these rules, you can try to cook it.
Ingredients:
- butter (preferably homemade) - 100 g
- sour cream - 110 g
- soda - 0.5 tsp.
- salt - a pinch
- flour - 2 cups
- meat - 500 g
- potatoes - 2 pcs.
- onion - 1 pc.
- eggs - 1 pc.
Recipe:
Melt the butter and cool. Add sour cream, salt, baking soda and beat in an egg. Mix everything. Knead a light dough. To do this, sift the flour, add the sour cream-oil mixture. Cover the dough with cling film and leave for an hour. Meanwhile, prepare the filling. Grind the meat, potatoes and onions very finely with a sharp knife, add salt and pepper. Stir.
Divide the dough into two parts in the following proportions: 2/3 and 1/3. Roll out most of it 5 mm thick and place on a baking sheet lined with parchment. Step 5 cm away from the edges, distribute the filling evenly. Roll out the second slice of dough and place on top. Sew the edges and make cuts in the center with a knife to release steam. Lubricate the chicken with a beaten egg and place in the oven for 40 minutes at 180 degrees.
Chicken pie
Red fish pie
This is an incredibly delicious dish. It can be served hot or cold. According to the proposed recipe, frozen puff pastry is quite suitable for making fish pie, so it can be prepared quite easily and quickly.
Ingredients:
- salmon or lightly salted trout - 300 - 400 m
- puff yeast dough
- eggs - 4 pcs.
- green onions - 1 bunch
- rice - 1 glass
Recipe:
First, cook the rice in advance so that it has time to cool. Line a baking dish with baking paper and rub with butter. Then roll out two sheets of dough. Place one sheet on the bottom of the mold. Peel the fish and cut into small pieces. After that, boil the hard-boiled eggs and chop the onion.
Now lay the pie filling in layers on the base: a layer of rice, then onions and eggs. The last one is the fish layer. Cover with the other half of the dough on top. Pinch a pie dough around the edges, spread butter and sugar on top of the pie. To get steam out, make a few holes with a knife. In an oven preheated to 180 degrees, you can send a pie for 40 minutes.
Fish pie
Kaymak
Kaymak is rarely found on store shelves. This is a dairy product. Delicate, sweet or salty mass is a cross between curd, sour cream and butter.
Ingredients:
- cream - 3 tbsp.
- sugar - 1 tbsp.
- vanilla sugar (natural) - ¼ sachet
- lemon - 1 pc.
Recipe:
Combine two glasses of cream with sugar and vanilla sugar and simmer until tender (a drop dipped in cold water should thicken to the consistency of sour cream). When boiling a kaymak, make sure that it does not burn.
Cool the finished kaymak quickly (put the vessel in cold water), then beat with a spatula, adding lemon juice drop by drop. When the kaymak is thick and white, gently add the cream to it. Mix the mixture well and refrigerate. Kaymak can be served separately or added as a layer for waffles or cake.
Kaymak
Varenets
This fermented milk drink is made from baked cow's milk (fermented baked milk), using sour cream as a sourdough.
Ingredients:
- milk - 1 l
- cream - 250 ml
- sour cream - ½ tbsp.
- yolk - 1 piece
- sugar - 1 tablespoon
Recipe:
Combine milk and cream in a saucepan and place in oven. As soon as peaks appear on the surface, lower them with a spoon to the bottom and shake. Set aside one spade on a plate. Continue baking the milk until it has reduced by one third. Remove the baked milk from the oven and cool to 40 ° C.
Add sour cream mixed with yolk and sugar, whisk, pour into cups and place a piece of froth on top. Place in a warm place (30-40 ° C) until the varenets turn sour. Then refrigerate. Serve the varenets with sugar, cinnamon and croutons.
Cheesecakes "Kievskie"
Shrovetide is sometimes called Cheese Week. On this holiday, various dishes were prepared from cottage cheese, in particular, cheese cakes.
Ingredients:
- homemade cheese - 500 g,
- flour - ¾ tbsp.
- eggs - 3 pcs.
- sugar - 3-4 tablespoons
- jam - 2-3 tbsp.
- raisins - 2 tablespoons
- white crackers - 50 g
- butter - 100 g
- icing sugar - 1 tablespoon
- sour cream 20% fat - ½ sc.
- salt to taste
Recipe:
Rub the cottage cheese through a sieve, mix with sugar, two eggs, salt and flour and stir until smooth. Sort the raisins, rinse and dry. Boil raisins and jam until thick and refrigerate. Divide the curd mass into pieces, roll it into round cakes 5-7 mm thick, put the boiled jam and make oval-shaped cheesecakes. Dip each cheesecake in a loose egg, bread in breadcrumbs and sauté in plenty of oil. Sprinkle with icing sugar when serving. Serve sour cream separately.
Cheesecakes
Enjoy your meal!
© DepositphotosA traditional dish for Shrovetide is. But you won't feed your family and treat your friends with pancakes all week, even if you cook them according to various recipes.
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From Monday, that is, from today, until Sunday inclusive, we bake pancakes, eat them and treat each other! Shrovetide has come. But to treat yourself to pancakes all week - won't you get bored? Not at all! Shrovetide has its own strict schedule, each day of the week has its own symbolic meaning. And every day you can cook something festive, Shrovetide, but original!
In the pagan past of Maslenitsa, one of the "duties" of the holiday was not so much the farewell to winter, but a guarantee of fertile abundance in all aspects of life - on the field and in bed; that's why even now on Shrovetide you need to bake a lot of pancakes. Sooooo many pancakes. Highly! As the saying goes, "it's not oily without a pancake." However, pancakes can get boring, so it is very important to diversify the menu; with pancakes, this is easy enough. Filling, dough and even shape - you can be creative in everything and please family and friends.
Oil Week Monday: Meeting
On Monday, pancakes begin to bake and the first pancake is given to the poor - in remembrance of deceased relatives. The daughter-in-law goes to visit her parents, and in the evening the father-in-law and the mother-in-law visit the matchmakers. You can surprise relatives with a pancake cake, disguising it with sour cream, chocolate or curd cream so that you would not immediately guess that it is based on traditional pancakes. can be sweet or savory, with mushroom, fish, caviar, cranberry, strawberry, apple filling - decide for yourself.
The main thing, remember - meat filling of pancakes is not allowed on Shrovetide, since Shrovetide, or Cheese Week, is the last week before Lent, and the "relaxation of the flesh" is only allowed for dairy products. As the saying goes, "the Maslena River is wide - even Great Lent was flooded."
On Monday they are making a Maslenitsa effigy. If you suddenly do not have the opportunity to plant this stuffed animal on a stake and carry it around the streets in a sleigh, you can, in the spirit of the Volga region traditions, make a straw oil doll on Monday and throw it into the fire at the end of the week, "so that all adversity will burn out, as the doll burns out" ...
Butter Week Tuesday: Flirt
On Tuesday, the groom's parents went to the bride's bridegroom to come to an agreement and after Great Lent sit down with an honest feast and for a wedding. Considering that you definitely need to take pancakes with you, you can make them easy to transport, namely, turn them into pancake rolls with caviar or salmon. Such a filling will definitely make a good impression!
On Tuesday, friends and relatives are invited to visit, treating them with pancakes. “Our snowy mountains are ready and pancakes are baked - we ask for your favor!”. Since you are going to the snow slides (that is, you took tickets to the skating rink), it is best to make sweet pancakes that are easily absorbed and provide a supply of energy for the most virtuoso figure skating - for example, chocolate pancakes, French, American hotcake pancakes with maple syrup, or English thin pancakes with berry filling.
Wednesday of Oil Week: Gourmands
On Wednesday, the son-in-law goes to visit his mother-in-law for the proverbial “mother-in-law's pancakes”. The mother-in-law must show her son-in-law all her cordiality and hospitality. "Son-in-law on the doorstep - pie on the table", or "Son-in-law comes - where to get sour cream?"
If the mother-in-law wants to feed her son-in-law well, it is worth making hearty, or, or, or classic merchant pancakes with salmon and traditional ones.
Well, in order to confirm the name of this Shrovetide day - Gourmands - cook, or.
Oily Week Thursday: Revelry
Thursday is called "revelry". On this day, there are no guests at home, everyone is on the street - to skate, take the snow town by storm, visit the fair, participate in wall-to-wall fistfights ... uh, the latter, it seems, should be deleted from the entertainment list. Although the "revelry" of this day, as well as of the entire Maslenitsa, was created in order to brightly, with noise and sparks in the eyes, throw out all the melancholy and anger accumulated over the dark and cold winter.
Prepare bright and unusual pancakes on Thursday - Moroccan pancakes with semolina flour, Belarusian pumpkin pancakes, Arabian pancakes kataf with custard, Japanese cabbage pancakes ...
Or surprise everyone with your binge, treating yourself to the most luxurious pancakes: for example, or gorgeous.
Since Thursday is a real revelry, you can set the table (and right in the cold!) Mountains of a wide variety of pancakes!
Oil Week Friday: Mother-in-law's evening
On Friday, the mother-in-law strikes back, that is, a visit, which is why Friday was called “mother-in-law's evening”. Pancakes for a treat should be prepared by the daughter. How to surprise mom with your culinary skills? For example, you can make lush and fragrant Ukrainian nalistiny with cottage cheese, which are served in a deep earthen bowl that retains the heat and aroma. Or serve fluffy and soft ones - also Ukrainian, or, or fragrant, or tender ...
Traditional and other classic options that have not left the Russian table for centuries look great on a generous table:,….
However, the culinary portal Gratin offers you only an approximate menu, and you, who are already familiar with, decide for yourself what to cook!
Oily Week Sunday: Seeing Off
Sunday is the apotheosis of the whole Shrovetide. On this day, everyone asks each other for forgiveness for the wrongs, they go to the bathhouse to cleanse themselves not only physically, but also spiritually. The rite of forgiveness is performed in the church: the abbot and believers ask for forgiveness from each other, in response to the request, answering “God will forgive”. Prepare those pancakes that your family liked the most over the previous six days of the holiday!
And in the evening - the festivities and the burning of the effigy of Maslenitsa. By the way, all the half-eaten, fast food is thrown into the fire, so that on Monday, when Lent begins, tasty leftovers do not tempt the fasting people.
We sincerely wish you on Shrovetide "to ride on the slides, roll in pancakes!"
