Estoninan spring

traditions

Mother-tongue day

● On 14 of March

● Different activities in school

Annunciation

● On 25th March.

● Important in old Estonian time.

● Celebrated different rituals.

● The day has many ritual foods.

Unleavened barley bread

Unleaved barley bread description

● One of Estonia's dessert items is this cake-like

barley bread. The recipe is hundreds of years

old and was forgotten for a long time. It is now

making its way back. The recipe is easy and

the taste is simple but different, soft and

delicious. This is what Estonia’s wealthier

ancestors ate for special occasions.Serve it

hot with this cranberry cream sauce. This

serving will be enough for 10 – 12 people.

Ingredients

● 500 g sour cream

● 1 egg

● ½ teaspoon

● 3 tablespoon sugar

● 60 g butter, melted

● 100 g whole wheat flour

● 200 g barley flour

● ½ teaspoon baking soda

● 150 g carrot (grated finely)

● 20 g butter, for sautéing

Directions

● Grate the carrot, sauté with butter on a pan, and let it cool.

● Mix soda and flours.

● Beat the eggs up, add sour cream, sugar, salt.

● Now in this mixture, add the flour mixture.

● In the end, add melted butter and carrots and mix very

well.

● Pour the whole mixture in a baking dish and bake at 180°C

for 35 – 40 minutes.

1. April

● Fools day

● Sending jokecards

St George´s Day

● On 23 of April

● All the nature is waking up

● Different sports activities

May Day

● On 30th April.

● The day of the witches and magic.

● Organized witch plays, campfires and people have the

barbecue.

Easter

● On the first Friday in April.

● Arrival of the spring.

● Colouring eggs with onionskins.

● Traditional foods are pasha and butter of eggs.

● Kicking eggs.

Pasha

Pasha description

● Pasha is a traditional Easter dessert. It is

traditionally baked in a special wooden mold that

has the orthodox Easter symbols carved into the

sides so that they are impressed on the dessert

when it is unmolded. For the clearest impression of

the designs when using a pasha mold, use no more

than two layers of cheesecloth. If you don't have a

pasha mold, a clean five to six inch clay or plastic

flower pot with drain holes on the bottom makes a

rather pretty substitute.

Ingredients

● 200 g butter

● 750 g milk curds

● 3 eggs

● 200 ml whipped cream

● 50 ml sugar

● 100 ml raisins

● 50 ml candied citrus zest

● 50 ml slivered almonds

● 2.5 ml ground ginger

● 2.5 ml ground cloves

● 2.5 ml ground cinnamon

● 10 ml lemon juice

Whip the cream

with a sugar

Added all the

others ingredients

Placeing the

mixture into the

mold

Directions

● Whip the cream with the sugar until it holds stiff peaks.

● Melt the butter; when it is hot, combine it with the milk

curds and eggs; add all the remaining ingredients; let cool;

● Gently fold the whipped cream into this mixture;

● Line a pasha mold with thin gauze or cheesecloth; place

the mixture into the mold; let drain for a day, pressing

down on it from time to time; keep in a cool place or in the

crisper of the refrigerator;

Egg wrapping

Wrapped eggs

Boiling the eggs

First we failed

Got many beautiful eggs

Egg kicking

Sprat sandwiches with eggs