Estonian National Cuisine

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Estonian National Cuisine
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Black Bread

• The word bread came to Estonian from Germanic
  languages.
• Traditional black bread spread in Estonia in the
  second century.
• In a peasant household people usually baked bread
  on Saturdays.

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• Depending on the size of the family, they usually
  made 6-10 loaves of bread.

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Recipe of Bread

• 51 of warm water
• 100 g leaven
• 6-7 kg rye flour
• 1 tablespoon of salt
• 2 tablespoons of fennel seeds

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Beliefs and habits

• There were many beliefs and habits related with
  bread
• If a piece of bread was dropped, it had to be
  picked up and given a kiss so that hunger would
  not come to the house.
• A loaf of bread was never put on a table upside
  crust down. That would predict a family member's
  death.
• It was not allowed to lay a loaf of bread with
  its cut side to the door, because then the house
  would run out of bread.
• People imprinted a cross on a loaf of bread
  before they baked it, because it would protect
  the family from an evil eye.
• Eating the crusty end of bread would give a girl
  nice breasts.
• Warm bread was supposed to be broken not cut.

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Christmas bread

• Christmas bread had to be different from everyday
  bread.
• It was made of rye or wheat flour and it was
  usually in the shape of a lying pig.
• Christmas bread was also fed to the animals in
  the stables and barns

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Estonia fish food
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The Baltic Herring

• The Baltic herring has been the main fish on
  Estonians table for centuries.
• It is the main fish that is caught in the Baltic
  Sea

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• The Baltic herring has become the national fish
  of Estonia.
• The Baltic herring is eaten fresh, marinated,
  smoked and tinned.

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A sprat sandwich

• black bread
• salted sprats
• boiled eggs
• All you have to do now is just make a sandwich?.

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Traditional favourites

• Marinated eel, served cold. A true Estonian
  favourite.

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Pork

• Pork has been known in the national cuisine of
  Estonia for a long time.
• Meat was eaten mostly in autumn and in winter
  with vegetables and cereals.

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The Market of Tartu City
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Beliefs and habits

• The pigs snout was given to a child, because
  people believed that it helped the child to
  become a writer.
• Eating the heart gives strength.
• The kidneys were boiled in soup and were eaten
  with somebody else to get well along with.
• These traditions are old and mostly forgotten,
  but pork has still a very important place in
  Estonian cuisine.

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Jellied meat

• In Estonian sült.
• A traditional Estonian dish - boiled pork with
  vegetables in jelly.
• The jelly is made by boiling the pig bones,
  sometimes trotters and heads.
• Estonians eat jellied meat at Christmas time, on
  Shrove Tuesday, New Years Eve and at Easter.

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Blood sausage Verivorst

• Blood and barley sausage, similar to what the
  English diplomatically call 'black pudding' due
  to its colour. In Estonia, this is traditional
  Christmas food, and is served with a red, berry
  jam. Our guests loved it.

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Sauerkraut stew
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Milk

• Milk is called piim in Estonian
• Over the times Estonians have been drinking and
  using milk (mostly cow milk but also horse and
  goat milk) as everyday food.

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• The development of Estonian milk industry began
  in the 19th century. Nowadays it is one of the
  most important lines of production in Estonian
  farming.

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Soured milk

• Soured milk is called hapupiim in Estonian
• Soured milk is a general term for milk that has
  acquired a tart taste through bacterial
  fermentation

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CurdCurd is made from soured milk by heating it
on a low temperature.Curd is a popular diet food
because of its high calcium and phosphorus
content and low energetic value.
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• Curd might be flavoured with salt or sugar and it
  is used in many different dishes like curd cheese
  patties.

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Curd snack

• A curd snack is a sweet snack about five
  centimeters long.
• It is made of milled sweet curd or curd cream and
  usually covered with chocolate glaze.

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A traditionally popular drink called Kali

• Besides the wine, the one packaged food we had
  was the very Estonian, non-alcoholic beverage
  called Kali. Referred to as "the Estonian
  Coca-Cola," Kali is a kind of unfermented beer.
  It's sweet and has a very light fizz to it.
  "Unfermented beer or liquid bread? Tastes really
  special. I like it!"

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