Latvian Piparkukas Recipe.

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Latvian Piparkukas Recipe.
Bread Soup (Latvian National Dessert )
Debessmanna (Whipped cranberry dessert with milk)
Layered Rye Bread Dessert
Latvian manna (Buberts)
Cottage Cheese Cake
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Latvian Piparkukas Recipe.

• Ingredients
• 100g golden syrup
• 100g dark brown soft sugar
• 100g butter (or if you want to be authentic, 50g
  butter and 50g lard)
• 2 egg yolks
• 350g plain flour
• 1tsp ground cinnamon
• 1tsp ground cloves
• 1 tsp ground cardamom
• 1 tsp ground coriander
• 1tsp ginger
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 1 tsp cream of tartar
• Zest of one lemon

Directions Melt the syrup and butter and stir in
the spices. Put this into a large bowl and mix in
the remaining ingredients until you have a fairly
stiff dough. Lightly flour your work surface,
take a workable amount of dough, and roll it out
to about 3mm. Cut out your preferred shapes using
a cutter. Lift the shapes on to a baking sheet
using your fingers or a palette knife. If you
want a luxurious finish you can glaze them at
this point using egg white whisked with a
teaspoon of sugar. Cook these for about 4 - 5
minutes in 180 degree centigrade oven.
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Bread Soup (Latvian National Dessert )

• Ingredients
• 600 g Black Rye Bread
• 8 glasses of water
• 130 g Sugar
• 100-150 g Dried fruits (raisins, apples,
  apricot, plums etc)Sour cream or Ice
• Directions
• Sliced bread put in preheated oven for
  approximately 15 minutes (180o C).
• Boil the water.
• Place bread in warm water, lid and leave it for
  about half an hour.
• Take a sieve and rub the bread, so all the liquid
  would go through it. 
• Add the sugar and all fruits mix it and boil it
  for a few minutes more.
• Put it the refrigerator to cool it.
• Serve with sour cream, ice or jam.

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Debessmanna (Whipped cranberry dessert with milk)

• Ingredients 75g (2.65oz) cranberries (or other
  berries), 200g (7oz) water, 50g (1.75oz) sugar,
  30g (1.05oz) semolina.
• Rinse cranberries. Crush and squeeze out juice.
  Place cranberry solids in a saucepan, cover with
  water, boil for five minutes and strain. Add
  sugar. Gradually add semolina, stirring
  constantly. Heat until semolina thickens, then
  add cranberry juice. Pour mixture into a bowl and
  cool rapidly. Whip mixture until it becomes light
  and airy and has doubled or tripled in volume.
  Serve in deep dessert dishes with cold milk.

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Layered Rye Bread Dessert

• Version 1 75g (2.625oz) dry rye bread, 50g
  (1.75oz) loganberry jam, 20g (0.7oz) sugar, 60g
  (2.1oz) cream, cinnamon, vanilla essence.
• Finely grate rye bread, mix with cinnamon and
  half of the sugar. Beat cream, adding sugar and
  vanilla essence gradually, until mixture forms
  stiff peaks. On a shallow dish arrange layers of
  bread, jam and whipped cream, finishing with a
  layer of bread which is decorated with whipped
  cream. Serve with a drink of milk.
• Version 2 80-100g (2.8-3.5oz) dry rye bread, 20g
  (0.7oz) sugar, 15g (5.25oz) butter, 50g (1.75oz)
  loganberry jam, 60g (2.1oz) cream, vanilla
  essence.
• Finely grate rye bread, add half of the sugar and
  fry in melted butter on the pan, stirring
  frequently. Allow mixture to cool. Beat cream
  with remaining sugar and vanilla essence. Layer
  rye bread, jam and whipped cream in serving
  dishes, sprinkle rye bread on top and decorate
  with whipped cream. Serve with a drink of milk.

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Latvian manna (Buberts)

• Buberts is a cold, creamy Latvian dessert.
• Ingredients
• 1)3 cups of Milk
• 2)1/2 cup of Cream of Wheat
• 3)2 eggs, separated
• 4)4 Tbsp. Sugar
• 5)1 tsp. Vanilla
• Directions
• 1)Heat milk.
• 2)Slowly stir in cream of Wheat.
• 3)Boil at a low heat for 5 minutes.
• 4)Remove from heat.
• 5)Whip egg yolks with 3 Tbsp of Sugar and vanilla
  
• 6)Add to cream of wheat.
• 7)Whip egg whites and remaining Tbsp. of sugar
  until firm.
• 8)Fold into cream of wheat mixture and chill.
  
• 9)Serve with cranberry jelly.

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Cottage Cheese Cake

• Ingredients
• 4 packets of biscuits Selga
• 1 kilo of cottage cheese
• 200g of butter
• 0,5 kilo of fruit jelly
• 1 liter of 35 cream
• 3 tablespoons of powdered sugar
• Directions
• 1)Rub butter with powdered sugar cottage cheese
  fruit jelly
• 2) Put a layer of biscuits
• 3) Put a layer of cottage cheese mixture with
  fruit jelly
• 4) Put a layer of biscuits
• 5) Put a layer of whipped cream with sugar
• 6) Decorate with grated chocolate, nuts, fruit
  jelly
• 7) Put the cake into the fridge for several hours