The holiday that has been known and loved since ancient times is Baptism. Preparing for January 19 - this is the date of the celebration - begins in advance with cleaning and cooking traditional dishes. At Epiphany, Filippov's fast and Christmastide ends, so the festive table should be rich and satisfying.
Traditionally, on the eve of Epiphany, they ate hungry or lean kutya and drank Uzvar. Only after the rising of the first star was it allowed to sit down at a rich table. There must be 7, 9 or 12 dishes on the table. The hostesses prepared lean pies and cabbage rolls, cookies, various pancakes, sometimes fish, and dumplings.
Epiphany: what to eat, what to drink
The festive meal itself should begin after swimming in the ice-hole.
First, consecrated water is drunk, and then a variety of dishes are served on the table in huge quantities. By tradition: the more you eat on that day, the better and richer the year will be.
What should traditionally be on the table for Epiphany? Usually they prepare various cereals, pancakes with a lot of butter, jellied meat, sausage, borscht and many meat dishes, the "star" of which must be a baked pig. This is a dish that is placed in the middle of the table. The head of the family should distribute a piece of piglet to everyone close to him, be sure to break it with his hands, while the youngest child should sit under the table and grunt.
The traditional Epiphany morning meal is a lean biscuit called "Crosses." It must be washed down with blessed water.
Christening menu: what is worth serving
- Skits or borscht
- Roast suckling pig or pork. Or pork stew with beans
- Mushroom pate
- Homemade dumplings with cheese, egg or potatoes
- Fried liver.
Christening Crosses Cookies Recipe 2019
You will need the following ingredients:
- sifted wheat flour - 1 cup;
- 2 large eggs;
- 140 g butter;
- 100 g granulated sugar;
- 2 tablespoons of brandy or vodka;
- some salt, cinnamon and vanilla.
How to cook: a rather tough dough is kneaded from all the ingredients, which is then divided into parts, each of which must be rolled into a sausage. These sausages are combined in the shape of a cross and placed on a greased baking sheet. Bake Epiphany cookies in the oven until tender. Sprinkle with powdered sugar on top of the sweets.
Mushroom pate recipe
To prepare a dish for Epiphany, you must take:
- fresh mushrooms (champignons are better) - 250 grams;
- onion - 1 piece;
- 70 g butter;
- 50 g of low-fat cream;
- garlic - 1 clove;
- olive oil - 1 tablespoon;
- a sprig of rosemary (optional).
The cooking process is as follows:
- fry a little onion, garlic and rosemary;
- add finely chopped mushrooms to the frying and fry again;
- pour everything with cream and keep on fire for no more than 15 minutes;
- allow to cool slightly, add butter and mix everything with a blender or grind through a meat grinder.
