Crosses are cookies. Ceremonial cookies "Voznesensky ladders"

Pass the meat through a meat grinder, add chopped cheese, garlic. Mix, adding sour cream, gradually pouring starch. Put in the cold, let stand for 30 minutes.

In the oil heated in a pan with a spoon dipped in water, spread meat mass. Fry until golden brown at both sides.

Beverages. As a sweet drink, you can serve juice cocktails, garnished with a sprig of mint, or lemonade based on sparkling water with jam syrup. Here is the composition for 3 liters: syrup 200-250 gr., Water is added to the neck of the jar. Drinks stand until ready for 5-10 minutes. in a cool place.

You can cook anything for the christening of a child, focusing on the children: buy nuts, sweets, and other sweets.

Recipes for a baby's christening

Baptism refers to important events that occur only once in a lifetime. For a long time, it has been celebrated in a wide circle of relatives and friends. One of the obligatory treats are "grandmother's" pies.

In many families, recipes for a child's christening are passed down from generation to generation. Therefore, it takes a kindred hand to make grandma's pies and cookies.

In addition to baking, there must be porridge on the table. The rest of the dishes for the christening of the child are chosen by the parents arbitrarily. Guests sit down at the table after the baptism ceremony taking place in the temple.

Salads. Salads for the christening of a child should be prepared directly on the same day. In this case, they will keep their delicate fragrance, pleasant taste. Salad "Caprice" can be called hearty.

Larks on the day of 40 martyrs, crosses, ladders and other lenten pastries are not just traditional orthodox pastry in your home, but also the opportunity to once again get together as a family for an interesting activity, to discuss the meaning of the festive event, to please loved ones. And these are the milestones of fasting that are very memorable for children.

On March 22, on the feast of the 40 Martyrs of Sebaste, larks are baked (in 2018, the holiday is postponed to March 20 due to the coincidence with the Thursday of the Great Canon). Dough birds can be made in different ways. For example, roll out a small tourniquet, tie it into a knot. Form one end of the knot in the form of a head with a beak, attach eyes - raisins, berries from jam, nuts. The second end is flattened and cut with a knife - “feathers”. Another option: sculpt a head with a beak from a piece of dough, roll out the rest, cut into 3 parts - wings and a tail. Fold the wings one on top of the other, mark the feathers on the tail.

On the Week of the Cross (in 2018 - March 11), cookies are baked in the form of crosses, raisins or nuts are pressed in place of the crossbars. On the week of John of the Ladder (in 2018 - March 18), you can bake "ladders" with an arbitrary number of steps. When to bake depending on the year - check the schedule of services.

The easiest way is to use store-bought puff or regular yeast dough. If you want to make your own dough, here are some recipes.

lean recipe yeast dough(also suitable for pies) - with dry yeast

For 2 st. flour - 1 tbsp. warm water, 1 tsp. fast acting yeast, 3 tbsp. l. vegetable oil, 1 tbsp. l. sugar, a pinch of salt. Mix the ingredients, let the dough rise a little. For sweet cakes and products, increase the amount of sugar.

Lean dough - 2 (with live yeast)

Ingredients: 1.5 cups of water (warm); 0.5 sticks of yeast (not dry!); 2 tablespoons of sugar; 1 teaspoon of salt; 3/4 cup vegetable oil (can be from 0.5 to 1 cup); flour how much will take (about 5 cups).
IN warm water dissolve the yeast with sugar, add salt, add the sifted flour gradually and simultaneously vegetable oil. Knead the dough not too dense, soft, so that it lags behind the dishes and hands. Mix well. Cover with a towel, let stand to rise properly, knead well again. When it rises a second time, knead again, after which you can roll out.

Roll not very thin. Allow pies and buns to rest for about 0.5 hours before baking.

To lubricate larks and other sweet products before planting in the oven, use sweet strong tea.

The filling for lean pies can be very different: potatoes, potatoes with mushrooms, finely chopped pickled cucumbers and herbs, cabbage, carrots, apples.

It is good to serve pies to the table, for example, on Sunday after the liturgy, in order to once again please the family and emphasize that today is a special, festive day. Or maybe it was a name day for the post? Here are some more simple quick recipes lean baking from ready-made puff pastry - it is sold in stores in frozen form, as a rule, in the form of a finished layer, it does not require rolling - defrost and create.

Sweet fruit puff pastry bagels

cut puff yeast-free dough into small rectangles. Use apple slices as filling hard pears, in season - unripe peaches, plums, you can add pieces of nuts. Put a little filling in the middle, pinch 2 opposite ends, bake in a preheated oven at a temperature of 180-200 degrees until golden color(about 15 minutes). Sprinkle hot bagels powdered sugar, you can mix the powder with cinnamon.

Sweet open pie from puff pastry

From puff yeast dough you can bake big pie. Spread the dough on a baking sheet, raise the sides, lay out fruit filling- everything is like for bagels, you can add mugs of bananas, jam (the sides will not allow it to leak out). In the photo - a cake baked on the feast of the Lord's Entry into Jerusalem, so it is decorated with a "palm branch" of dough.

pineapple rings

The option is more difficult. You will need puff pastry without yeast, 1-2 cans canned pineapple rings (depending on the volume and number of rings) and a little starch. Cut the dough into strips about 1 cm wide - so that they pass inside the ring. Dip the rings in starch so that the juice does not stand out. Wrap each ring with dough strips through the middle and bake in a preheated oven at a temperature of 180-200 degrees for about 15 minutes. In the photo, the rings are decorated with strawberries, but even without it it turns out delicious.

On January 19, the entire Orthodox world celebrates the Epiphany of the Lord. This is one of the most significant religious events.

According to the church charter, on the eve of Epiphany, a one-day fast, providing for one meal that day.

They eat hungry kutya or sochivo, which is made from honey, nuts and boiled wheat grains. Bake on Christmas Eve lenten pies and cook a hot compote of dried fruits.

In the Baptism of the Lord, one cannot eat before taking the Epiphany holy water. It is believed that she has a large healing power and can protect a person from failures, misfortunes and diseases. It is advisable to drink Epiphany holy water on an empty stomach, you can wash your face with it and wash your children.

Baptism, or Holy Theophany in Rus', has always been celebrated widely and solemnly on a grand scale. Put on the table a lot of festive delicious meals from honey, cereals, berries and meat. Our ancestors on Epiphany baked a pig and put a dish with it in the center of the table.

The head of the house would break off pieces of it with his own hands and distribute to the household members. According to tradition, the smallest member of the family at that time sat under the table and grunted softly, imitating a pig. Such was the dinner, and in the morning the holiday began with a special treat - “crosses”. These are so small lean cookies. They had to be eaten on an empty stomach and washed down with holy water.

Therefore, on January 18, all housewives must bake "crosses" - ceremonial cookies. There are many signs associated with baking this cookie. For example, if the cross is well baked, yellow-pink, then it will give success, health, well-being. The person who got such a cookie can later whole year seek sympathy, intercession, advice. If the “cross” with fractures is cracked, then it predicts changes in fate, difficulties. But a half-baked or burnt "cross" will bring sadness, mental trauma to the disease.

Such "crosses" cannot be eaten. The hostess who baked bad cookies must feed them to the birds outside. According to signs, heavenly creatures will relieve grief. The people to whom the bad cookies were intended do not need to know about the bad omen. They are treated with spare ruddy "crosses", therefore good mood no one spoils on a holiday.

After the "crosses" they served pancakes or pancakes baked with honey. There was a sign that the more you eat these pancakes, the more money you will have in the coming year. Ritual dishes were served on the festive table.

Cookies "Crosses".

• 1 cup wheat flour
• 2 eggs,
• 150g butter
• 100g sugar
• 2 tablespoons rum or cognac
• vanillin,
• salt,
• cinnamon.

Divide the resulting dough into several parts. Roll each part in the form of a sausage, divide into two parts and put them, in the form of a cross, on top of each other. Grease a baking sheet with oil and place in hot oven. Sprinkle finished "crosses" with powdered sugar.

Kutya. From the Greek "kutia" means "boiled wheat". Kutya can be prepared from any cereal.

Kutya with rice

• 1 liter of water
• 1 cup rice
• 100g honey
• ½ cup raisins
• 100g marmalade or candied fruits,
• 50g shelled walnuts.

Rinse and boil rice, add raisins. Stir honey into a small amount water and mix with crushed walnuts. Combine and mix everything. Decorate with marmalade or candied fruits.

Following Christmas is a holiday that Christmas time continues until the day of the Epiphany.
The Baptism of the Lord is one of the biggest holidays of the Orthodox Church
January 19 is celebrated in memory of the baptism of Jesus Christ in the waters of the Jordan.
In all cities and villages where there were churches, the water was holy.

The Baptism of the Lord is the third and last great holiday of the Christmas and New Year period.
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THE MAIN TRADITION OF THE FESTIVAL OF THE BAPTISM OF THE LORD IS LIGHTING THE WATER

Slavic traditions of bathing in an ice-hole date back to the time of the ancient Scythians, who dipped their babies in ice water, accustoming them to the harsh nature. In Rus', after the bath, they liked to plunge into icy water or jump into a snowdrift.

This tradition existed among other Christian peoples even before the adoption of Christianity in Rus' - for example, it is customary for the Greeks to dive into the water on the feast of Epiphany.

With the Baptism of Rus' (in 988), it gradually spread among our ancestors.

Curiously, there is no evidence that this phenomenon was widespread.
Of course, one can find references to the tradition itself in classical literature (for example, in Kuprin and Shmelev).
This allows us to say that they swam in the hole at Epiphany, but there is one caveat.

Dahl makes a reservation that "bathing" was performed strictly at a certain time and not by everyone:
In Jordan they bathe, who dressed up about Christmas time. “WHO AT THE SOLIDAYS ROYED” - that is, those who participated in mass games at Christmas time, put on masks, went caroling, in a word, sinned as best they could.
And bathing in icy water, which, as is commonly believed, becomes holy on Epiphany night, is such a way to cleanse oneself of sins.
Others didn't have to swim.

For this, a special hole is made in the river, the Jordan. At Epiphany, churches bless the water.

It has long been a custom for Orthodox Christians to bring holy water home and store it carefully. This water is considered healing, they drink it, wash their faces with it, sprinkle the house.

In ancient times, Baptism was considered a turning point. That evening they hoped for the best, made plans, made wishes. “On the Epiphany night, the sky opens,” they said among the people.

Menu holiday table on this day, as well as on the Christmas Eve preceding it, since ancient times it has been distinguished by abundance and diversity.

Traditional baptismal menu of the festive table
must include special
ceremonial pastries - cookies, pies or pancakes with honey

The meal began with holy water. Then they ate kutya ((1 glass of rice, 100 g of pitted raisins, 100 g of honey) and washed down with uzvar (dried fruits, lemon, honey, sugar, water).

ritual cooking, partially preserved to this day, keeps echoes most ancient magical rites.

; Collector of Russian folklore I.P. Sakharov noted: “In some villages, old custom prepare ... from wheat dough animals: cows, bulls, sheep and poultry, as well as figures of shepherds. Animals were put up on the windows to be shown to passers-by, they flaunted on the table in the morning for the family and in the evening were sent as a gift to relatives.

But this is already an enlightened 19th century. And the first mention of figurines made of dough are found in Russian chronicles of the 12th century.

Traditional characters - a horse, a deer, a cow, a goat, a duck, a grouse with chicks in those days, such ritual figurines of animals or birds were hung on stockyards as amulets, later, in line with the Christian tradition on Epiphany, soaked figurines were added to livestock feed to be healthy and prolific.

Also traditionally baked for baptism Cookies "Crosses"

Russian peasants believed that these cookies could help to get good harvest well-being of household and family.

First morning meal January 19 for each of the household should consist of this cookie, which is supposed to be washed down with holy water.

So the Siberians believed that the eaten "cross" gives a person health.

Cookie crosses were eaten first on an empty stomach, washed down with Epiphany water, followed by pancakes and pancakes cooked with honey.

They also baked special cookies - personalized ones. The mother of the family, when she rolls out the dough and shapes it, marks flour products: for yourself a highlight, for a husband - poppy seeds, for a son - anise, for a daughter - cumin, or simply squeezes out the first letter of the name with a knife.

These symbols, taken out of the oven, tell what kind of life cross all family members will have to bear in the coming year.

If the cross is well baked, yellow-pink, then it will give success, health, well-being.
From the person who got such a cookie, you can then look for sympathy, intercession, and advice for a whole year.

If the “cross” with fractures is cracked, then it predicts changes in fate, difficulties.
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FIGURINES

For baking figurines, I used brioche dough.

Although it would be more correct to use the dough for lean baking.

Figures can be formed from a piece of dough, or you can “cut out” using a stencil. A stencil of figurines can be taken from children's coloring books.

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COOKIES "CROSSES"

1 cup wheat flour
2 eggs
150g softened butter
100 g sugar
2 tablespoons rum, cognac (I used balm)
Vanillin
Salt
Cinnamon

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Cookie making technology:

* Softened butter rub white with sugar.

*Add beaten eggs, salt, vanilla, cinnamon, alcohol.

*Then add flour, mix quickly.

*Usually shortbread dough I keep it in the fridge for at least 3-4 hours.

* Roll out the resulting dough into a layer 0.5 cm thick.

*Then sharp knife cut into strips 2 cm wide, about 8 cm long. Other sizes can be selected.

* Lay the strips in the form of a cross, on top of each other.

* Decorate with raisins. In order for the raisins to stick well in the dough, I made indentations with the cap of a ballpoint pen at the location of the raisins.

*Bake at 200°C for about 12 minutes.

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A LOT OF REGULATIONS

SIGNS FOR BAPTISM

If on this day there is a blizzard, snow or drifting snow - be harvested.
There is little snow on the branches of trees - in the summer do not look for mushrooms or berries.
If the stars shine strongly on that night, the bread will be good.
The stars are not visible - there will be no mushrooms.
If there is a blizzard on this day, the same will happen on Shrove Tuesday; if there are strong winds from the south, the summer is stormy.

FORTUNE FOR FULFILLMENT OF WISH

On the evening before Epiphany, write twelve of your desires on pieces of paper and put them under your pillow before going to bed.

Waking up in the morning, take out three leaves at random, those desires that will be indicated on these leaves and must be fulfilled.

Scatter a handful of small items on the table, such as nuts, seeds, etc.
Make a wish and count the number of items.

If their number is even - the wish will come true, respectively, the number of items is odd - the wish will not come true.

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CONGRATULATIONS ON THE BAPTISM

On a frosty day at Epiphany
You accept the invitation:
Come to a warm house
Let's drink tea with pies!
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I hasten to congratulate you on Baptism
And wish you purity
All thoughts and all aspirations,
Health, happiness and love!

Baking cookies Crosses on Holy Week is a long-standing Russian tradition. She was well described by Ivan Shmelev in his autobiographical story "The Summer of the Lord".

The third Sunday of Great Lent is called the Adoration of the Cross (this year it is today - March 19), followed by the week of the Adoration of the Cross.

Whether to implement interesting custom baking symbolic cookies in your family is an individual matter. I have been following this tradition for about 10 years and I like it 😉 I think it is great way to interest children - under the process of family sculpting of cookies, talk about the features of worship and the meaning of this week of fasting.

You can bake Crosses cookies from different test- purchased puff (from which you can also make,), rye, gingerbread or shortbread. Of course, considered lean options. I chose the latter - a la shortbread, based on flour, starch, water and sunflower oil.

Sweet or salty?

Previously, Crosses were often baked with the addition of not only sugar, but also honey to the dough. I like unsweetened cookies more, so I decided to offer you this option.

However, if you want to cook a sweet yummy, then there is nothing easier - exclude spices from the ingredients and add sugar! How many? Depends on your preferences. For the indicated amount of ingredients, you can take from 2 tablespoons to half a glass.

My salty cookies are very good with tea, coffee, and with any juice, compote, jelly, as well as with any soup or side dish! 😉 So...

I have used the following products:

• Wheat flour in / with - 2 glasses (250 g)
• potato starch- 75 g
• filtered water - 100 ml
• sunflower oil- 100 ml
• soda - 0.5 tsp
• salt - 0.5 tsp
• universal seasoning - 1 tsp

Cooking:

Mix flour, cornstarch and soda well. I sifted them together through a sieve.

I added salt and all purpose seasoning.
Spices can be taken any other to taste.
If you have sweet cookies in your plans, add sugar at this stage. And you can dilute it in water - there is not much difference.

Thoroughly mix the starch-flour mixture with salt and spices. Added filtered water. Its temperature doesn't matter.

Then poured in sunflower oil. I took fragrant, but refined will do.

Knead a soft pliable dough.
If necessary, you can adjust the consistency by adding a little water if the dough is a little dry, or vice versa - flour if the dough sticks to your hands. In my case, this was not required.

I sprinkled the cutting board with flour and rolled out the dough on it into a not very thin layer (the thinner it is, the harder the cookies will be).

Part of the dough was cut into rectangles about 2.5 cm wide and about 10 cm long. These are blanks for the vertical part of the crosses.

In the same way, I cut slightly smaller rectangles - about 2.5 cm x 7.5-8 cm. This is for the horizontal crossbars.

I overlaid shorter rectangles in the horizontal position on the longer ones in the vertical position. Their intersection was 1/3 of the length (height of the cross) from the top.
I did not fix the intersection point, but if you wish, you can do this by pressing any nut into the dough. And in the case of a sweet option - raisins (or part of any other dried fruit), marmalade or something else.

I put the crosses on a greased baking sheet and baked at 200 "C for 12-15 minutes. It is necessary that the cookies only brown, but not fry. Then it will turn out tender and crumbly.

Here we are ready delicious pastries, which is a kind of visual aid and an external attribute of the cross week, and allows us to distinguish this event from everyday life.

Well, now is the time to treat your family to these cookies in combination with any drink or dish! However, without everything, with an appetite, it is also very tasty! ;)

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