According to ancient traditions, for Christmas
the table did 12 dishes, including drinks. Some of them were prepared in
lean, they were served on January 6 in the evening, other dishes
used on the morning of the 7th. Some foods were required
set, the rest was chosen at its discretion.
Contents
Sochivo – zest of the Christmas table
It is often called kutya, these porridges are similar, but they have a difference.
in the appointment, consistency, some ingredients. Dish served
first on the table on Christmas night. It symbolizes
rebirth, joy, wealth, goodness and well-being. Traditional
it is cooked without fail from wheat, use is allowed
rice, bulgur. Grain is boiled, seasoned with sweet
ingredients.
What else is added to the sauce:
- boiled and crushed poppy;
- roasted nuts of different types;
- bee honey (sometimes replaced with syrup);
- dried fruits;
- spices (ginger, zest, cinnamon);
- Uzvar, he is a fruit broth.
It has a watery consistency, it is eaten with a spoon and only
after the appearance of the first asterisk in the sky. This dish helps
recuperate after the hardest and most severe day
Christmas post. In addition to the salmon, baked are served to the table
vegetables and fruits, mushrooms and similar lenten dishes. The next
day in the morning on the Christmas table, you can safely put others
breakthroughs.
Goose with apples
At the end of the Advent, it is customary to cook on the table.
the whole bird. It has long been in Russia it was a goose with apples, but also
You can cook chicken or duck. Now often pay attention
on turkey. In America, it is her roasted for her Christmas,
which is celebrated on December 25th. Regardless of the type of bird, its important
tasty cooked, preferably marinated in advance. If not
like apples, you can cook a goose with other fillings.
What can bake a bird with:
- potatoes and other vegetables;
- rice, buckwheat, various cereals;
- fresh and dry fruits, nuts;
- mushrooms with vegetables or cereals.
You can not add anything to a goose or another bird.
The main thing is to rub with spices, sauces, you can marinate in advance.
To please the dish with juiciness and tenderness, the goose is usually baked
in the sleeve or under the foil, and at the end of the process they reveal. For
fragrant crust can be doused with grease, smeared with honey or its mixture
with mustard, cognac. The bird is beautifully roasted.
Suckling pig with horseradish
For a long time one of the main dishes on the holiday table was
whole piglet roasted Sometimes it was cooked on a spit, but
more often baked on a baking sheet or in form. Like a bird, a piglet
marinated, rubbed with different seasonings, but always left
head
What can be marinated pig:
- pepper of different types;
- mayonnaise, sour cream;
- vegetable oil;
- garlic, onion;
- soy sauce;
- mustard.
For маринада можно использовать абсолютно любые приправы на свой
taste, fit and spices for kebabs. It is only important to immediately remove
large pieces, otherwise they will burn, spoil the look and crust. Served
such a pig with grated horseradish or a sauce based on it.
Aspic with garlic
Sausages and ham on the Christmas table was not like cheese.
Traditional snack food has always been jelly. Cooked it out
pork and always with garlic. In the old meat parts put on
the furnace and tomily all night, after which they were disassembled into pieces, poured
saturated decoction, sent in the canopy for solidification. If simple
jelly seems boring, then you can add eggs, peas
green carrot or other vegetables.
What traditional jelly is made from:
- legs;
- pig heads;
- knuckles.
If notт желания готовить жирный холодец из свинины, то можно
make beef jelly or aspic from poultry, fish. These dishes
will also take a worthy place on the Christmas table, but will
differ more light taste. Do not forget to prepare to submit
mustard Purchased sauce is no good. Better to make a real one and
vigorous mustard, which will delight the sharpness and punch
aroma.
Rye Pies
In addition to meat dishes, baking was always in high esteem. Cooked
big pies and pie with various fillings. Dough kneaded
yeast and always with the addition of rye flour. Baking with her
отличалась плотностью и особым aroma.
What was used for the filling:
- stewed and sauerkraut;
- fish and meat;
- mushrooms;
- eggs, onions;
- cereals.
Big cakes were put on the Christmas table, pie and
small pies were cooked for children and others who came to visit
guests. Cream cakes and pastries on the holiday table was not.
Later, they began to cook ginger pies for Christmas, and then
painted gingerbread, cookies, houses. These traditions migrated to us.
from western countries.
Uzvar: for strength, health and pleasure
The main drink on the festive table was fruit uzvar. it
not a simple compote. It was made from various dried fruits and berries,
insisted on a warm oven for at least ten hours, filed along with
fruit pieces. Uzvar used for refueling sochivka.
What is used for decoction:
- dried apples;
- pears;
- plums, prunes, cherry plums and other stone fruit;
- raisins;
- cranberries, lingonberries.
In fact, you can use any dried fruit up to
rose hips. For аромата добавляются кусочки цедры, палочки корицы,
various spices. For сладости в узвар вводится мед. If
the drink turns out to be bland, then the brightness will add lemon or
cranberry juice.
What else to cook?
In addition to the standard set for the Christmas table, you can
cook and other dishes. But they should all be simple.
No overseas and artsy ingredients. Give preference
ancient Slavic dishes and natural products.
What else can you cook:
- whole fish baked (pike, carp, carp);
- pancakes with different fillings or just with butter, sour cream;
- vinaigrette with sauerkraut;
- dumplings with different fillings;
- Sbitni, mead, jelly and other Russian drinks.
Can be put on the table, boiled apples, sauerkraut,
pickled cucumbers and mushrooms, smoked bacon, boiled tongue,
stuffed stomach. It does not matter if the result is more than 12
dishes and drinks. Let the Christmas table pamper you with generosity and
variety, and the coming year brings only joy!
