Ancient Estonians ate usually fermented milk dipped in bread, fish or potatoes in the hot summer.
Now we are more riche 🙂 So, bread is not enough.
To make this soup use your creativity. For this soup are suitable for example:
radish, tomato, cucumber
fermented cucumber, boiled beetroot, boiled potatoes, boiled eggs
Continue reading “Estonian Cold Soup with Black Bread. Hapupiimapudi”
Today I will share the recipe, which you probably will never do. The Kama.
Kama is Estonian traditional finely milled flour mixture. Estonians buying Kama mixture from shop.. and the easiest way is to try this, probably visit Estonia. But I still give you the recipe.
Historically kama was a non-perishable, easy-to-carry food that could be quickly fashioned into a stomach-filling snack by rolling it into butter or lard; it didn’t require baking, as it was already roasted. Today Kama is a perfect summer dish. Just add some fresh or fermented milk and sugar or salt, mix, and ready!
Today Kama is used for making cakes, mousse, desserts and salty snacks…
And what is interesting. In Estonian Kama means in slang “stuff, things” and the same time Kama means ” drugs”…:) Continue reading “Estonian Secret. Kama. Estonian “muesli””
Chanterelle Sauce with fresh and boiled new potatoes in something MUST be in the summer. Fresh mushrooms and fresh potatoes and a lot of fresh dills. This is summer.
Picking wild mushrooms means the aromas of the fields and the forest.
And in July, there are not only mushrooms. Blueberries and cowberries. Hot air. The smell of the pines. Later, in autumn, the smell of wet dead leaves. Something mysterious and captivating.
When I am writing mushrooms., I mean wild mushrooms. chanterelle, boletuses, russula. And other Mushrooms that do not need blanching.
A fresh, light, chanterelle sauce is perfect for a summer dinner.
My three-year old nephew: I want to draw
I: of course. I am looking for paper and pencils
Child`s mother: Mmmm… he wants a tablet…:) 🙂
In ancient times, when drawing meant paper and colours… 🙂 we cooked for winter-time lot of preserves. This is one very old recipe.
Now, when tomatoes are available during year, now need for preserves. Cook just a delicious salad.
recipe by Milvi
1 kg tomatoes, sliced
300 g onion, sliced
5-6 cloves
1 teaspoon grounded pepper
2 tablespoon 30% vinegar
salt
3 tablespoon butter
1/2 glass sugar
Melt butter, add sugar and stew onion half-ready, add tomatoes and seasoning.
Add vinegar. Do not boil. Taste.
Continue reading “Old School Tomato and Onion Salad”
Please, turn on the kettle !, I asked the husband
Few minutes later.
I am going to the kitchen.
Pouring water in to the cup.
And leaving the tea to infuse and set.
Very carefully, blowing … and sipping
cold peppermint flavoured tap water… 🙂 🙂
It is impossible to cook a hot tea from water, forgotten to put it to boil…:)
Continue reading “Blueberry Pie with Crispy Oatmeal topping”
I believe that each Estonian has own recipe what to do with cucumbers. I already shared one recipe and I will share them more. But if you have not time and you need brine cucumbers as soon as possible. This is one option.
My father was born in 1943. So, he was a child after the war. This was a terrible time. Estonia was occupied by the Soviet Union, Hunger and poverty. In March 1949, 20,722 people (2.5% of the population) were deported to Siberia.
Started collectivization. Forcibly was established collective farms, which means that all farmers must give all animals to collective farms. All over the countryside, the establishment of kolkhozes was announced and the majority of the peasants joined ‘voluntarily’, fearing that they would be deported if they did not sign up. During the 1950s, masses of farm animals would starve to death in late winter or early spring because of a lack of fodder. Collective farmers did not get first years any salary.
Because was lack of eggs and everything, children invented ” bread”, to have something to eat. They mixed potatoes, flour and oil and baked this on to the wood burning stove iron.
Continue reading “How to make Estonian Potato Flat Bread. Kartulipletskid”
Estonian women are able to weave a cobweb.
Haapsalu shawl over 200 years old Estonian traditional lace shawl. Always knitted with fine wool, so you can pull the shawl through wedding ring. The skill has been handed down from mother to daughter, from one master knitter to another for one and half centuries.
Haapsalu, a small resort town on the west coast of Estonia, is famous for its 13th-century castle ruins, curative mud baths, and the legend of the White Lady. Created using lambs’ wool, the tradition started when members of the Russian aristocracy – including the royal Romanov family – visited the famous healing mud baths at the start of the 19th century. As they walked from the warm baths into the chilly courtyard outside, these women would fling a delicate shawl around their shoulders to keep warm.
Haapsalu shawl is something I am never able to knit, but I believe, that this cake is the most easily baked pie in the world.
My grandmother did this using barley flour. But this is same delicious with wheat or whatever flour. Continue reading “Soft and Delicious Grandmothers Apple or Rhubarb Pie”
Who Said I am not the Sharpest Pencil in the Box?
Estonian Cuisine. Eesti Toit. 