Maslenitsa - a holiday that has been preserved from the times of the pagan Slavs.It is celebrated in the last week before Lent, seven weeks before Easter.This year, Mardi Gras fell on February 28th.Despite the fact that the pancakes - the main symbol of Maslenitsa - is hardly a dietary meal, I want to celebrate it not only fun, but also with health and beauty.
Carnival is always a meeting of spring, then there is a sense of joy.In ancient times, this feast has been associated not only with the wires of winter and beginning of spring, but also the name of the god of fertility and cattle breeding of Veles.And personified the awakening of nature from the winter sleep, and the start of field work.That is why the Carnival was to be abundant and nourishing to bring the harvest in the new year.
Carnival continues seven days.Every day of Maslenitsa has its own name and its meaning:
- Monday - meeting. To this day were completed slides, swings, booths.Wealthy people began pancakes Monday.The first pancake was given to the poor in remembrance of deceased relatives.
- Tuesday - zaigryshi. this day boys and girls gather in the morning, ride the mountains and ate pancakes.Invited with relatives and friends.
- Wednesday - gourmet. this day-in-law came "to the mother-to pancakes."Also invited other guests. - Thursday - a binge. Carnival Thursday unfolded to its full width.People riding on threes, with icy mountains, arranged carnivals and sideshows, fights and everything ended in a noisy feast.
- Friday - Teschin Vecherko. this day in-law was invited to visit his tёsch and treated them pancakes. - Saturday - Zolovkina gatherings. young daughter invites to his zolovok and gave them gifts. - called Forgiveness Sunday. this day all asked each other's forgiveness.What many do now.And, of course, a variety of baked pancakes - simple, lace, by leaps and bounds, with pripёkom and fillings.
For those who care about the harmony of shapes and beauty of the face, there useful recipes of pancakes:
- Pancakes Pumpkin
1 cup of slightly warmed milk to pour into an enamel saucepan, add 10 g.yeast, 1 part-time cup of flour, knead the brew and let it go.Clear 30 oz.pumpkin, cut into its pieces and boil in salted water, then rub through a sieve.Put the pumpkin in coming up brew, add rastёrty with 1 tbsp.spoon of sugar and salt, egg yolk, 1.5 cups of milk and mix well.Egg whites whipped into a thick foam, gently put the dough and let it rise.Bake pancakes in oil.
- Carrot Fritters
Stir 1 cup carrots, grated on a grater, 1 cup flour, ½ cup sugar, 1 egg, 40 gr.melted butter, ¼ teaspoon teaspoon soda, quenched with lemon juice and 1 tbsp.a spoonful of vegetable oil.All mix and bake as usual pancakes in oil, obzharivaya on both sides.
- Oatmeal pancakes
Take 1 tbsp.a spoonful of honey, 1 cup at a coffee grinder milled oatmeal, 1 tbsp.a spoonful of vegetable oil and pour boiled water so as to obtain the consistency of pancake dough usual.Bake like regular pancakes.
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