Christmas eve – January 6. Traditional festive table Bashny.Net

January 6 (December 24, old style) — Christmas eve, Christmas eve

It is also called "carols". The importance of the Holy Night of the birth in the blessed land of Israel in God-chosen simple Jewish family of the infant Christ is so great that even the course of modern history and our chronology we today are just from Christmas. In Russia, this holiday is given to us by the descendants of Abraham, was especially fond of.

Christmas eve — the final day of advent. Traditionally on this day in food it was possible to accept only so-called sochivo — soaked wheat with honey and fruit. This tradition gave the name to the holiday.





On Christmas eve, before the "evening star", that is, until the evening hymns at the Service "Volsvi with a star traveling", nothing ate and did not sit down at the table. With the appearance in the sky of the first joyful twinkle that heralded once the Magi about the birth of the Savior, you can celebrate.

The main culinary event of Christmas is dinner on Christmas Eve. Our ancestors on the eve of Christmas was put on the table a bundle of fresh hay — in memory of the manger in which Jesus was born. The table was covered with a white cloth and placed it twelve dishes — the number of Christ's Apostles from the 12 — and all vegetable. But with the advent of the 7-th on the table was allowed to put meat dishes.

As soon as the first star appeared in the sky, eat meatless dishes.

Christmas eve, or more correctly Sochevnik, is the eve or vigil of the feast of the Nativity. It is the Christmas Eve is such a solemn feast, which has firmly, consistently identified the ritual, preserved by the tradition to this day by the Church both in terms of time, organization, procedure, or food dishes.

Christmas eve begins: all participants begin the meal as soon as the first evening star. This usually occurs before the onset of darkness at dusk.

According to the Church Charter on this day should be consumed sochivo, i.e., grain corn, soaked in any liquid (water, broth, gravy, honey, syte, etc.).

The Eastern Slavs (Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians) until the end of the XIX century this grain was rye, in the late XIX – early XX century, primarily wheat, and more wealthy people is rice. With regard to the composition of the liquid, it can be everything from plain water to delicious and even though not a liquid gravy, which is selected depending on the grain.

There is a ritual in the feast of Christmas eve and two or three mandatory meals. It's baked fish, preferably whole, which may be replaced by boiled whole fish, and finally a thick compote–stewed fruit (uzvar), a variety of whole or cut only in half of fruit (apples, pears, cherries, quinces, apricots, plums, raisins, figs) and the jam made from whole berries (raspberry, strawberry, strawberry, cloudberry, etc.).

Elected for this dish Mature, fully developed fruit. Sometimes, in addition of juice from whole fruit boiled still jelly from the berries – the sour kiselak.

The result is a menu full ritual of Christmas eve:

1. Sochivo (a Lenten semi-liquid pudding for Christmas eve)

2. Fish baked (boiled)

3. Kutya of wheat (rice), raisins, sauce to which is fed the honey diluted with boiled water.

4. Stewed fruit (compote, uzvar) of wholes and weak kiselak the tart from the berries.

What does this table? What are its rituals and symbolism?

The grain is soaked in water, is a symbol of germination, the beginning of life. The fruit is ripe and the fruit turned into liquid jelly, is a symbol of full maturity of life and its end. So these two dishes are the symbols of birth and death. And the fish? Its Greek name "ihtios" means the hint is the first letters in Jesus Christ. But all together it serves as a reminder of the symbols of birth and death – the grains and fruits that the wise men brought to Christ in the day of his birth.





Thus, on Christmas Eve, in fact, cope symbolically, the ritual of the birth of Jesus Christ.

In the Orthodox Christmas Eve, eat strictly ritual and, moreover, exclusively meatless meals: porridge (without oil), fish (baked or boiled, i.e., also without butter) and fruit. In other words, vegetable and fish without butter, milk and eggs.

Christmas Eve on the composition of the food according to its menu — a purely religious holiday. It is a holiday of modest, quiet passing at the table in genteel conversation, and ending very early (because it starts very early).

The main dishes on the table in the eves there are types of lean Kuti — sochivo (a semi-liquid diet pudding) and Koleva (loose pudding).

Distinguish between the lean and perilous pudding ("rich and generous"). Lenten pudding eaten in Epiphany and Christmas eves (sochivo), and memorial days (kolivo), and for christenings and other holidays — Christmas pudding-fasting (milk, cream, plenty of butter). Ritual significance is mainly of a vegetable pudding.

Part of the corner, usually prepared separately: grain or groats boiled in a large quantity of water or cook crumbly porridge, then introduced the sweet part and additives. After connecting all the components of the pudding is heated for 10 minutes (better in a clay pot).

Depending on the amount of added liquid, the pudding can be semi-solid or crumbly. A real Christmas pudding of boiled wheat grains with honey, it should be semi-liquid, and eat it with a spoon. Wheat is preliminarily prepared in the following way. First, the grain was pounded in a wooden mortar, adding a teaspoon of warm water to the shell of the grain has completely collapsed. Then the kernel is separated from the chaff, Otieva, sifting and washing. And only then cooked on water from pure grains porridge.





Here are a few recipes for ritual food for the feast on Christmas Eve.

SOCHIVO (a semi-liquid diet pudding)

Ingredients:

• 1.5 cups of wheat grains,
• 150 grams of poppy,
• 150 grams peeled walnuts,
• 5 tablespoons of honey.

Preparation:

Clear grain of wheat to separate them from the shell and boil them water gruel. Sweeten to taste.

Grind in a mortar poppy mix poppy seed porridge with honey and add to cooled porridge.

 

KOLEVA (loose lean kutia)

Ingredients:

• 250 grams of wheat grains,
• 150 grams of raisins,
• 150 grams figs,
• 100 grams of honey.

Preparation:

In cooked in water and peeled grains of wheat add cooked separately and enumerated and washed raisins and figs, sweetening with honey and mix well.

 

RICE

Rice to touch and wash thoroughly. Fill it with water, bring to boil, discard in a sieve, pour cold water, put in a saucepan, Bay plenty of water, cook until tender. Drain in a sieve and cool.

In bowl, designed to corner, put the sugar, add a little boiling water, stir to dissolve sugar, add to prepared rice, washed, scalded and dried raisins seedless.

Stir, obrovnyat from the sides, smooth the top, sprinkle lightly with sugar.

Strict proportions of rice, sugar and raisins no — select to taste.

Separately in a gravy boat to file situ (honey diluted with water)

 

FISH BAKED COLD (from old recipes)

Fresh carp, gutted and leaving them eggs, bake on a hot hearth, turning from side to side.

When baked, cut the sides and put in pan with podmostej from the splinters the bars, to dry in the oven.

Serve on a platter, when cool.

Thus bake and other fish. Some is even tastier when the oven is judges, not sheluchim not Patrushev.

 

PIKE BOILED IN SALT (from ancient recipes)

Fresh pike, gutted and not sheluchim, boil in water with salt, when ready, still hot roll into the ring, usamu tail in her teeth.

Send to the table wrapped in a napkin on a dish; to thereof, to serve horseradish dissolved in kvass or vinegar.

Hell to clean, grate, add sugar, dilute with kvass or vinegar and serve in a gravy boat.

 

STEWED FRUIT FROM DRIED FRUIT WITH CINNAMON

Ingredients:

• 500 g of dried fruit,
• 1 liter of water,
• 1 Cup sugar,
• cinnamon.

Cooking

This drink sure was served on Christmas Eve. From the usual compote stewed fruit has a higher concentration.

Dried fruit (apples, pears, cherries, plums) washed, folded into a saucepan, add a little cinnamon, pour water, bring to boil, cover and cook until soft on low heat. Cool, drain the juice, put it in the sugar, boil and pour it over the fruit.

You can apply both hot and cold. If the fruit is sour, sugar is taken half as much.

 

STEWED FRUIT FROM DRIED FRUIT

Ingredients:

• 1 kilogram of dried fruit,
• 300 grams of sugar.

Preparation:

Washed dried folded into a saucepan, add sugar, cover with water 2-3 inches above the layer of dried fruit, bring to the boil and with the lid closed on slow fire to cook until tender.

Serve hot or cold.

From the usual compote stewed fruit has a higher concentration.

 

VEGETABLE MILK

Ingredients:

• 200 grams of any nuts,
• 3 cups of boiled water,
• sugar to taste.

Preparation:

Pound and grind the nuts in a mortar, gradually adding water, then strain through cheesecloth and squeeze dry grated nuts.
Add sugar to taste.

 

PUDDING OF JUICY berries

Ingredients:

• 125 g berries,
• 125 g of sugar,
• 30 g of starch,
• 800 g of water.

Cooking

Berries (cranberry, cowberry, currant, blueberry, strawberry, BlackBerry or raspberry) wash and squeeze the juice.

Marc cook, strain, add sugar and boil.

Starch add water, stir, put in boiling syrup and stir, boil, simultaneously infusing the juice. Then cool quickly. Optionally, you can add citric acid to taste.

 

Christmas divination





1. Guessing on the ring. Mound in some deep dishes of grain, and put on the ring, and now unmarried girls take turns with one movement of the hand is dipped into the grain and gather it into a fist. Now look who got the ring. And that will be released this year married.

2. Guessing when to get married? Take a glass, fill 2/3 with water, tie to a ring (preferably smooth, without stones) thread. Now, holding the string, dip it in water as many times as you, and then hold it over the water, but in a glass, it will start to wobble and Bang on the side of the Cup. Count. In so many years you get married.

3. Christmas divination by shape. Take a clean sheet of paper, Somchai it and put it on a saucer and set fire to it. Now hold it to the wall so that was seen the shadow of a burnt lump, and turn on your imagination. In outline, you can see your future.

4. Divination of children. Take a needle, put it in the thread. Holding the thread, lower the needle between the thumb and forefinger the palm of her hand as many times as you are now. Then place the needle in the center of the palm and look carefully. If the needle will rotate in a circle, your first child is a girl, but if straight, the boy. Skip between your fingers 3 times, and again at the middle, see if you can have a second child and what sex (say this).

5. Christmas divination, what's his name? Take a basin with water, write on slips of paper the names of the men and informed of the intended marriage, roll them tubes and drop simultaneously into the water. Look, what first appears with a name and year so they will call your spouse and in that year you get married.

6. Guessing the name of her spouse. Go outside and ask the name of the first counter men. And will possibly call your boyfriend. Only one did not go, and then one friend after 4: 00 one in the yard, he asked the name of the janitor-Tajik, then has not been able to get rid of him, wanted to meet you.

7. Christmas divination about marriage. Leaving the yard, take your shoes off with one leg and drop it out, now look in which way the sock looks, if the house — expect the wedding, if the house — more like a little girls.

 

 

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8. Desire. Written on 12 pieces of paper desires that you would like to fulfill this year, before going to bed put under a pillow and in the morning, not saying a word, put my hand under my pillow and randomly get three of them. They will come true (checked).

9. Of course, guesswork, but do not forget that coffee should be brewed from ground beans, not instant. After drinking it, turn the Cup upside down on the saucer and after a while look at the precipitate on the walls of the Cup. Here you will own imagination.published

 



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