Christmas Eve dishes

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2. Christmas Eve dishes • Kuciukai (Christmas Eve biscuits) with Poppy Seed Milk • kisielius (cranberry pudding), a dried fruit soup or compote • a salad of winter and dried vegetables, mushrooms, boiled or baked potatoes, (without meat) and bread • In keeping with Lithuanian Christmas tradition, only the dishes as they were prepared in Lithuania for this meal should be eaten and fresh fruit, fresh vegetables, exotic seafood should be left for another meal

3. Christmas wafers

4. KŪČIUKAI (Christmas Eve biscuits)

5. Christmas evening

8. Lithuanian Christmas Eve dishes • Šližikai(Christmas Eve biscuits) with Poppy Seed Milk • 1 cup self-rising flour • 2 cups ordinary flour • 2 tbsps. powdered sugar • 1 egg • ½ lb. margarine (two sticks) • 1 cup cold water (approx.) • Mix all ingredients (margarine should be room temperature – soft), knead dough, cool in refrigerator 2-3 hours or overnight, roll into finger-width strips, cut into inch long pieces and bake on a cooky sheet at 350 ̊ oven until brown. • Poppy Seed Milk • Cover about 2 cups of dried poppy seeds with boiling water, let stand 5 minutes, drain and crush or grind the seeds in a food mill. Pour sweetened water or milk over crushed seeds to make a thin liquid. Place desired amount of šližikai in a bowl, cover with poppy seed milk and eat like cereal.

9. Christmas day

10. Straw decorations

11. Straw ornaments