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Estonian Secret: Kohuke. Chocolate Glazed Quark Snack

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Kohuke. Chocolate Glazed Quark Snack

Kohuke- chocolate glazed quark snack is very popular dessert for children breakfast.
Kohuke is basically freshly pressed sweet curd covered in chocolate or caramel. There are plain as well as flavoured varieties filled with things like berries, chocolate, coconut and kiwifruit.

Kohuke is popular throughout the Baltic countries and can be found in Russia and other Eastern-European states as well. These little things actually don’t have much of a history – they’re about 70 years old and were something of a cult food during the Soviet regime. They disappeared as soon as they hit the shelves of Soviet stores in the 50s due to the constant shortage,

Because of quark, Kohuke is rich with protein and because of chocolate, it is energy bar:)

Let’s do Kohuke at home as pop-cakes.

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Gingerbread Cake with Berries

Happy New Year! Head uut aastat!

Christmas and holidays are over, and at least I have still too much gingerbread.
Lets make one cake.


”Gingerbread

  • Servings: ”4-6″
  • Difficulty: ”easy”
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”Simple


– ca 200 g gingerbreads
– 250 g quark
– 200 g sour cream
– 75 g butter, melted
– ca 0,5 litre berries. If frozen, mix berries with starch
– 2 eggs
– sugar
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Rolled Cake. Rullbiskviit

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Rolled Cake. Rullbiskviit

One of my favourite cake. For better result use free range yellow eggs.

Rolled Cake. Rullbikviit

  • Servings: 4-6
  • Difficulty: easy
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A light and delicious cake

Ingredients

  • 5 eggs
  • 5 tablespoon sugar
  • 5 tablespoon flour
  • ca 300 g jam

Directions

  1. Whip eggs in mixer with sugar ca 10 minute, while you get bright and light egg foam
  2. preheat oven to 180 Cdsc01666
  3. Sift flour in to egg mix and stir carefully
  4. Pour dough in to baking paper lined oven tray
  5. Bake ca 10 minute 180 C. While biscuit is baking, prepare
  6. Put on the table “baking tray sized” baking paper and sprinkle with the sugar
  7. Take biscuit from oven and turn it back, biscuit side next to the sugar.
  8. Remove carefully baking paper  from biscuit and spread quickly with jam
  9. Roll cake and serve.


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Bubert. Semolina dessert

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Bubert

Bubert is a strange Estonian dessert because of its name. As it starts with the letter ”B” it must be a foreign originated word.As far as I know Bubert is mostly known in Latvia and Germany.

Bubert. Semolina Dessert

  • Servings: 2-3
  • Difficulty: easy
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A light semolina dessert Bubert

Ingredients

  • 0,5 litre milk
  • 2 tablespoon semolina
  • 2 eggs
  • sugar, vanilla
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Kissell

Kissell

  • Servings: 2-3
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Ingredients

  • 0,5 litre juice + water +sugar
  • 0,5-1 tablespoon strach

Directions

  1. If you using dried fruits (raisins, plums..) Put the fruits in water for half an hour. And add berries with swelling water

    2. 2. If you using fresh berries – like Cranberries. Bring  berries with some water to the boil and smash them through the sieve.

  2. Bring the juice to the boil. Mixture should be little bit “too strong”
  3. Mix the starch with cold water and
  4. Pour in to the boiling juice, stirring constantly and let simmer while Kissell is enough thick
  5. Do not let Kissell to boil
  6. Serve with whipped cream or Quark pudding or bread pudding


Soundtrack Leila Miller “Talv”

Gingerbreads. Piparkoogid.

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Ginger Bread. Piparkook

From the first Advent until Christmas every night Estonian children put their shoe on their windowsill because Päkapikud (little elves) starts visits good children and brings at night into the child slipper, some candy.

Today there are of course discussions:) Is it a good idea, that “Päkapikud” leave candy, maybe it should be carrot or raisins 🙂
And what about “not good” children. But anyway, Christmas time is started and this is means Piparkook!
In Estonian, Piparkook means, in direct translation  – pepper cake. So, nothing about ginger 🙂 Continue reading “Gingerbreads. Piparkoogid.” →

Oatmeal Cookies

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Oatmeal Cookies

Do you need baking ideas?
4 ingriedient Oatmeal Cookies is the best for unexpected guest.

Because  11th of November is Mardipäev. And probably in afternoon, bells the ring, and behind the door are singing children…:)

The ritual visit was done, singing. At first, behind the door they asked to be let in, singing. Then danced and asked for bounties (food), singing. At last they thanked and wished luck, e.g. good corn, suitors for the daughter of the family. They cursed the family if the door was not opened and they were not let in, e.g. they wished the family illnesses, hunger and other bad fortune.

The foods of St Martin’s Day were fowl (especially goose), sausages of groat and flour, scon. In the name of St Martin’s Day/Martinmas, Mardipäev, Nov 10 the pagan lore (related to the soul’s time) can redound as well as the Christian tradition. It is possible that an old pagan holiday melted into a Christian saint’s day which was in the same period of time and had a similar name.

Mardus (also marras, margus, mardo) – Estonian fairy of deaths, the predictor of deaths, in the older time probably a dead person (compare with marta – indo-iranian stem for ’mortal’).
Marraskuu (also mardakuu ) – in Finnish ’the month of the dead’, November
Originally, only the men went around as mardid, from the end of the 19th century the girls dressed as men began to do it too. On St Martin’s Day people disguise them into unknown, dark, ugly and furry male beings, using fur coats, tow, birchbark a.s.o. Masks, black and dark clothes can be associated to the cult of the dead, hairiness is associated with fertility. ( text by Taive Särg)
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Milk Kissel

dsc01082Milk Kissel is very easy to cook delicious dessert.

This is typical Estonian school lunch dessert and using this recepie, you can cook more Kissells.
Adding cacao powder, coffee extract or caramel, you get
Cacao Kissell, Coffee Kissell or Caramel Kissell.

Milk Kissel

  • Servings: 4
  • Difficulty: easy
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A fresh, light and easy to cook, dessert

Ingredients

  • 4 glass of milk
  • 4 table spoon sugar, vanilla
  • 4 table spoon strach

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Semolina Mousse. Mannavaht. Roosamanna

My Grandmother called Semolina Mousse as ” Wind Porridge”. Because it is “fills” but does not feed:)
What name to use, it depends on juice.
White Mousse is ” Mannavaht”. And Pink Mousse is ” Roosamanna”, what means ” Pink Mousse”.

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Semolina Mousse. Mannavaht. Roosamanna

Semolina Mousse. Mannavaht. Roosamanna.

  • Servings: 6-8
  • Difficulty: easy
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A fresh, light dessert

– Mix total 1,5 litre little bit too strong drink
from
natural Apple juice for Mannavaht or
from Red currant or Cranberries juice for Roosamanna
add water and sugar
– 1,5 dl semolina
– vanillasugar
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