{"id":3336,"date":"2011-11-15T16:59:47","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T22:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/?p=3336"},"modified":"2016-02-20T17:14:45","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T23:14:45","slug":"a-traditional-kucios-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/a-traditional-kucios-table\/","title":{"rendered":"A traditional K\u016b\u010dios table"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHRISTMAS EVE BISCUITS<\/strong>
\nK\u016b\u010diukai\/presku\u010diai\/\u0173li\u017eikai<\/em><\/p>\n

1 oz. yeast
\n1 Tbsp. sugar
\n1 cup milk
\n\u00bd tsp. salt
\n1\u00bd cup all purpose flour
\nCream yeast with sugar. Add warm milk and salt. Sift in flour. Stir thoroughly. Put in warm spot to rise a little. If necessary, add more flour to dough. Roll about \u00bd inch thick with rolling pin on floured board. Cut into finger-width strips, then into bits of \u00bd inch or less. Bake in 350 \u00b0 oven until edges are light brown, Serve with poppy seed milk.<\/p>\n

POPPY SEED MILK<\/strong>
\nAguon\u0173 pienas<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00bd lb. poppy seeds
\n2 cups boiling water
\n10 almonds
\n2 cups milk
\nWash poppy seeds in cool water. Pound them fine with a wooden pestle. Cover with boiling water. Blanch, peel and chop almonds, stir into poppy seeds. Add sugar to taste, and when cool, pour in the milk. Pour over biscuits just be- fore serving. Please note: This is a very old recipe. Modern cooks have discovered ways to simplify the process by buying almonds that are already blanched and peeled, or Solo Poppy Seed Pastry Filling instead of pounding the seeds with a wooden pestle. Others use condensed milk diluted with water for the liquid. The idea is to create a sweet poppy seed-based milky liquid in which the biscuits are submerged. Still the best way to get true poppy seed milk is to pound or grind the seeds the old-fashioned way.<\/p>\n

DRIED FRUIT COMPOTE<\/strong>
\nD\u017eiovint\u0173 vaisi\u0173 kompotas<\/em><\/p>\n

6 cups water
\n1 (8-ounce) package mixed dried fruit
\n1 cup pitted prunes
\n1 cup dried apples
\n\u00bd cup golden raisins
\n4 cloves
\nJuice of 1 lemon
\n1 cinnamon stick
\n1 cup sugar (or to taste)
\nIn large saucepan, combine water, sugar, mixed fruit, cloves and cinnamon. Bring to a boil. Simmer for 15 minutes or until fruit is soft. Remove from heat; stir in lemon juice. Refrigerate overnight and serve chilled.<\/p>\n

BEET SOUP WITH \u201cLITTLE EARS\u201d<\/strong>
\nBurok\u0117li\u0173 sriuba su ausuk\u0117mis<\/em><\/p>\n

1 qt. water
\n\u00bd onion
\n1 carrot
\n6 peppercorns
\n1 bay leaf
\n1 sprig parsley
\n\u00bd stalk celery
\n1 tsp. butter
\n1 Tbsp. flour
\n5-6 medium beets
\nBoil beets in water about for 1\u00bd hours. Peel and grate. Add pinch of sugar, salt, and \u00bd-1 tsp. lemon juice. Melt butter, stir in flour, add to beet mixture. Make broth of the first seven ingredients. Strain, keep hot. Pour broth over beets, heat, do not boil. Place \u201clittle ears\u201d in hot soup before serving.
\n\u201cLittle ears\u201d
\n\u00bd cup water
\n2 egg yolks
\nSalt
\nFlour
\n\u00bc lb. dried mushrooms
\n\u00bd Tbsp. butter
\n1 chopped onion
\nSoak mushrooms in cold water for several traditional K\u016b\u010dios table hours. Rinse thoroughly. Boil in water until fairly soft. Chop, fry in butter with onion, adding salt to taste. Make a dough of the water, egg yolks, salt, adding enough flour to roll. Roll thin on floured board. Cut into 1\u00bd inch squares. On each square put a spoonful of mush- room mixture. Moisten edges with egg white, fold over opposite sides to form triangle; press edges together tightly, Twist two ends of triangle up and over to form \u201cears\u201d. Boil about 5 minutes in plain broth in tightly covered pan. Add to beet soup.<\/p>\n

HERRING<\/strong>
\nSilk\u0117s<\/em>
\nSoak salted herring in cold water or milk for 24 hours. Drain, skin, fillet and bone. Cut into 1-inch pieces. Arrange in serving dish, pour on 1-2 Tbsps. each of vinegar and salad oil. Garnish with thinly sliced onion or minced green on- ion. Chill. Serve with rye bread or hot boiled potatoes.
\nPlease note:
\nToday you can buy herring that\u2019s already skinned, boned and filleted at many stores that sell Lithuanian, Jewish or Eastern European foods. Herring is being imported from Lithuania, and it\u2019s quite good. If you prefer a herring dish that\u2019s a little more colorful, try the following one.<\/p>\n

HERRING IN TOMATO SAUCE<\/strong>
\nSilk\u0117s pomidor\u0173 pada\u017ee<\/em>
\n4 herrings
\n3 onions
\nCoking oil
\n\u00bd bottle tomato ketchup
\n2 bay leaves
\n\u00bd tsp. sugar
\nSoak herrings in cold water for two days. Remove bones, cut each herring into four pieces. Dip in flour and fry lightly in oil. (If preferred, herring need not be fried; in that event, flour is not needed.) Slice onions, fry in oil until tender; add ketchup, bay leaves and sugar. Boil 5 minutes. Pour hot over herrings. Set in cool place overnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CHRISTMAS EVE BISCUITS K\u016b\u010diukai\/presku\u010diai\/\u0173li\u017eikai 1 oz. yeast 1 Tbsp. sugar 1 cup milk \u00bd tsp. salt 1\u00bd cup all purpose flour Cream yeast with sugar. Add warm milk and salt. Sift in flour. Stir thoroughly. Put in warm spot to rise a little. If necessary, add more flour to dough. Roll about \u00bd inch thick …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[78,137],"class_list":["post-3336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-food-cooking","tag-lith-heritage","tag-siliunas-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}