Yearly Archives: 2014

Wedding round loaf of bread

Today we are going to cook the Ukrainian round loaf of bread for a wedding. It is the first bread which newlyweds should taste together.

Parents-in-law present this round loaf on a Ukrainian embroidered towel. The parents meet the happy pair with bread and salt (a traditional...

Read more

Chovlent (the cuisine of Zakarpatye)

Chovlent - is a very tasty dish in pots. The baked beef, beans, and carrot with tomato paste is delicious, nourishing, and useful.

The dish has its history. It was borrowed from the Jewish cuisine. As you know the Jewish people don’t work Saturdays....

Read more

Ukrainian pancakes Nalysnyky

Nalysnyky – the thin pancakes with curd/cottage cheese stuffing rolled up to form a tube and fried to a golden crisp. In ancient times the pancakes were baked in Ukraine on the metal sheets and that is the reason why this dish got this name. Today...

Read more

The history of wedding baking – Dyvuvannia

Dyvuvannia – is the unique decoration of a festival wedding table, the emerging of which we owe to the ancient Ukrainian traditions. This wedding bakery is considered to be a very symbolic rite which is undeservingly pushed out by the modern fashion craze.

Dyvuvannia...

Read more

Pear kysil

 

Ingredients:

  • 3 pears
  • 1 l (liter) of water
  • 100 g sugar
  • 3 tbsp potato starch
  • vanillin – to taste
  • cinnamon/ cloves – to taste
  • citric acid – to taste
Read more