www.intermarkrelocation.ru
Maslenitsa
... time to eat Pancakes
Contents: It’s Maslenitsa week in Russia! Time to eat Pancakes! 04 u Day 1 04 u Day 2 05 u Day 3 05 u Day 4 06 u Pancake recipes 07 u Day 5 07 u Day 6 08 u Pancake Slavic test 09 u Day 7 10 u TOP5 best places to taste pancakes
Happy Maslenitsa week! From February 16th till February 22nd Russia celebrates Maslenitsa. To welcome a good and hot spring - you need to eat a maximum amount of pancakes and be in a good mood all the time! And at the end of the week remember to burn something like a big handmade doll=) Maslinitsa tends to be a very happy and fun festival, most of the festivities are centered around family rituals bust most importantly it is staged to wave a big farewell to winter. Most are happy to say goodbye to the long cold winter! Usually for Maslenitsa you need to visit family and friends, sing Russian songs, drink “Medovukha”, eat pancakes, wear traditional beautiful costumes, play snow wars, c onstruct castles from snow and at the end of the week burn the Maslenitsa doll – which is the spirit of winter. Every day of the Pancake week has its own significance and a special ritual.
Day 1 Welcome day On day one all the daughter- in – laws ought to visit their husbands parents and spend the day with them eating pancakes. On this day people construct snow hills and castles (that could be very funny) and start to make pancakes. Old and unwanted things are collected up and tired up together into a Big Maslenitsa Doll. When the doll is ready people put it on a picket and take it around for all to see.
Day 2 The Flirty day Day two is the day for young people! Young single girls are introduced to young lads and they would go sliding down snowey slopes or sledding. Toboggans are very popular and of course a lot of pancakes are eaten! To welcome others, it is tradition to say: “ We have snow hills and pancakes are done, – Welcome to our home!”
04
Maslenitsa
www.intermarkrelocation.ru
Day 3 The Gourmand The third day of Maslenitsa is symbolically called “Sweet Day.” This day the married men visit their mother-in–laws. Get over fed with pancakes and enjoy day of leisure!
Day 4 The Promenade This is a day of revelry, people stop with household activities and start to really celebrate the Big Maslinitsa. A lot of outdoor activities are happening! Horseback riding, fistfights, different competitions, jumps over the fire and ice skating. The symbolism of the Promenade-day is to splash of all negative energy stocked in the wintertime, for start a clean spring.
www.intermarkrelocation.ru
Maslenitsa
05
The Recipe Try our Russian pancake recipe! Ingredients: - 500 mL milk - 3 eggs - 280g (2 Âź cups) flour - 1-2 tbsp sugar - 1 teaspoon salt - 3 tbsp vegetable or sunflower oil - butter
1) Crack the eggs into a bowl. Add sugar (1 tbsp for savoury pancakes, 2 for sweet) and salt. Mix gently with a whisk until integrated. 2) Add 200 mL milk and stir. 3) Add flour and mix until batter is formed. 4) Add remaining milk and stir until integrated. 5) Add the oil and stir. 6) Let the batter sit for 20 minutes.
06
Maslenitsa
7) Heat up your skillet and add a bit of oil to it (my preferred method is to stir around oil between each pancake using half a potato stuck on a fork, cut face down). Pour the batter into the pan (max. 1 ladle) and quickly tilt the skillet from side to side, forming an even circle. When the sides of the pancake start to look dry and a bit golden, flip the pancake over with a thin spatula. Wait about the same length of time, or slightly less, flip the pancake onto a large plate and spread a pat of butter on top.
www.intermarkrelocation.ru
Day 5 Motherin-law evening On this day the mother-inlaw visits her son-in-law whilst the daughter makes pankaces. Generally the family joins for a feast.
Day 6 Sister-inlaw gathering Young married girls invite their sister-in-laws. If she is married, the girl invites her married family members, if she’s not; the girl invites her unmarried friends. The girl makes a present to her sister-in-law
www.intermarkrelocation.ru
Maslenitsa
07
Tell me what you eat – I will tell you who you are!
Let’s try an Old slavic test, choose a flavour from the illustration and check the result below!
Results : Caviar –You are an exceptionally pragmatic person; Salmon – You are an adventurous person and always looking for exciting things to do; Cream Cheese – You are very generous and open-minded; Butter – You are affectionate and self confident; Jam – You are a loyal person but a child deep inside; Meat – You are always the first one, you like to make decisions, and you are really authoritative; Mushrooms – Be careful, people can think that you are not very sincere and open; Honey – You are romantic but sometimes building your castles on the sand. 08
Maslenitsa
www.intermarkrelocation.ru
Day 7 - Goodbye day For the last day, people ask for forgiveness from all their friends and family and go to “Bania” (steam room). After Maslinitsa the great Lent begins and lasts 40 days, so at the end of Maslinitsa all food is give away, spring cleaning is done on the house and at the end of the day the Bg Maslenitsa Doll is burnt. By burning the doll – this is how people say goodbye to winter. Times change, but Maslenitsa is always celebrated in Russia. Maybe not all rituals are respectedbut people always have great fun at Maslinitsa and begin spring with great spitits!
www.intermarkrelocation.ru
Maslenitsa
09
TOP5 Best Places to taste Pancakes You will of course find pancakes in all places of celebrations, as parks. But, you can also go in a café or Restaurant. Enjoy our TOP5 selection of places to taste the best Pancakes in Town.
Blinnaya na Taganke
Café Pushkin
The most interesting place, only there, you will find the soviet taste of pancakes for more than 50 years with an authentic interior design and cheap prices.
On June 4th, 1999 at Tverskoy Boulevard in a baroque style mansion was open the restaurant “Cafe Pushkin” – the best restaurant with the old Russian aristocratic cuisine. This is the first theatrical project with the architecture of historical atmosphere
Pancakes from 30 RUB 8, Vorontsovskaya str., m. Taganskaya
Black caviar with pancakes 4 780 RUB Sweet pancakes with cream stuffing & hot berries 720 RUB 26A, Tverskoy Boulevard, m. Pushkinskaya www.cafe-pushkin.ru
Teremok
Creperie de Paris
Dom 12
It’s a big group, you can find it everywhere in Moscow. Cheap prices – simple service.
A Maslenitsa taste with French touch. Pancakes from 290 RUB 12, Profsouznaya str., m. Akademitcheskaya 26, Rusakova str., m. Sokolniki A take away stand will be held in Patriashi Ponds on the weekend
Dom 12, a special café restaurant – the official gastronomic partner of the MAMM will offer a special Maslenitsa Menu. Here you can find interesting exhibitions, movies, markets, in two words it’s more that a simple café.
www.teremok.ru/address/ msk
www.creperie.ru
12, Mansurovskiy Pereulok, m. Kropotkinskaya www.dom12cafe.ru
Remember to catch our Moscow Digest at the end of the week with all the Best events to be for the Maslenitsa celebration 2015!!!
Maslenitsa Edition 2015 Intermark Relocation 7/1 Kropotkinsky Pereulok, Moscow, Russia, 119034 Office: +7 495 502 95 53 www.intermarkrelocation.ru www.facebook.com/IntermarkRelocation Numerous sources were referred to in the making of this publication. Photography source, not indicated inside the Edition img-fotki.yandex.ru i.artfile.ru www.coollady.ru
Follow us