Latvia
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Pelēkie Zirņi (Grey Peas with Speck)
Latvia's festive grey peas: large dried grey peas simmered until tender and tossed with fried speck bacon and onions — eaten at Christmas for luck and all winter for strength. Ingredients: dried grey peas (pelēkie zirņi)…
Sklandrausis
The sun-disc of Courland: a rye-pastry tart filled with mashed carrot (or potato), caraway and egg — baked in Skrunda and Alsunga for five hundred years. Ingredients: rye flour, water, butter, salt (pastry); filling: car…
Pīrāgi
Latvia's crescent rolls: soft yeast buns shaped like moons, filled with smoked bacon and onion — the pīrāgi no celebration table can be without. Ingredients: flour, milk, butter, yeast, sugar, eggs (dough); filling: smok…
Aukstā Zupa
The pink cold soup of Latvian summer: kefir and pickled beets with cucumber, radish, dill and egg — served ice-cold when the heat arrives. Ingredients: pickled beets (with their brine), kefir or buttermilk, cucumbers, ra…
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