Poppy seed bakery is a great dainty for Christmas and New Year holidays. If you want to treat your beloved ones with this cookery, then welcome to follow our detailed recipe for a tasty poppy seed roll. Ukrainians do love baked foods with poppy seeds and know how to cook them very well) Ingredients: Yeast dough 50 g fresh yeast (11 g dry yeast)200-250 g sugar400 ml milk900 g flour2 eggs150 g dairy butter2 tsp vanilla sugar1 lemona pinch of salt Poppy seed filling 300 g poppy seeds150 ml milk50...
Traditional drinks in Ukrainian national cuisine
You've probably already used to how rich and truly infinite Ukrainian cuisine is. The fusion of traditions and modern trends gives birth to an impressive gastronomic variety and allows the Ukrainian national cuisine to get into the TOP-20 tastiest cuisines in the world. However, in addition to delicious dishes for every taste, there are many delicious Ukrainian drinks. Believe it or not but Ukrainian drinks like meat and vegetable dishes also have rich and entertaining histories of origin. Our ancestors did not drink modern-day tea, coffee or horilka but they...
Ukrainian Christmas decoration didukh. What does it mean?
If you cook Ukrainian recipes and are interested in national culture, then you probably know that Ukrainians have a great number of traditions and talismans with some secret, hidden meanings. On New Year and Christmas holidays, we make a special decoration called didukh/diduch (wheat sheaf). Traditional talisman Didukh has many names: straw talisman, dido, snip-rai, koliada, didochok, and kolidnyk. Traditionally, the sheaf was made from the last stalk of wheat harvested during the year. It may include wheat, flax, oats, and rye. According to the biblical parable, Jesus Christ was...