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: carrots, butter, eggs, sugar, caraway seeds, sour cream.
What it is
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: carrots, butter, eggs, sugar, caraway seeds, sour cream. Recipe: 1) Make a firm rye dough; roll small rounds with raised rims. 2) Boil and mash carrots with butter, egg and caraway. 3) Fill the discs generously. 4) Bake until the pastry is crisp and the filling bronzed. Serve: with milk or tea — the EU protects sklandrausis with a TSG label, the first Latvian product so honoured. Flavor: sweet carrot, caraway, rye depth. History: sklandrausis belongs to the Kurzeme (Courland) west; its name joins Latvian 'sklanda' (slope/fence) and 'rausis' (the baked good). See also: Pelēkie Zirņi (Grey Peas with Speck), Aukstā Zupa.
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