The document summarizes some Estonian spring traditions. On Mother Tongue Day on March 14th, schools do activities in the native language. Annunciation on March 25th was historically important and involved rituals. Easter traditions include coloring eggs by boiling them with onion skins, making traditional foods like pasha dessert and butter eggs, and kicking decorated eggs. Pasha is a cheese-based dessert baked in a wooden mold with religious symbols. Other spring events discussed are April Fool's Day, St. George's Day on April 23rd celebrating nature waking up, May Day activities on April 30th, and traditional foods like unleavened barley bread and cranberry cream sauce.

1. Estoninan spring
traditions

2. Mother-tongue day
● On 14 of March
● Different activities in school

3. Annunciation
● On 25th March.
● Important in old Estonian time.
● Celebrated different rituals.
● The day has many ritual foods.

4. Unleavened barley bread

5. Unleaved barley bread description
● One of Estonia's dessert items is this cake-like
barley bread. The recipe is hundreds of years
old and was forgotten for a long time. It is now
making its way back. The recipe is easy and
the taste is simple but different, soft and
delicious. This is what Estonia’s wealthier
ancestors ate for special occasions.Serve it
hot with this cranberry cream sauce. This
serving will be enough for 10 – 12 people.

6. Ingredients
● 500 g sour cream ● 150 g carrot (grated finely)
● 1 egg ● 20 g butter, for sautéing
● ½ teaspoon
● 3 tablespoon sugar
● 60 g butter, melted
● 100 g whole wheat flour
● 200 g barley flour
● ½ teaspoon baking soda

7. Directions
● Grate the carrot, sauté with butter on a pan, and let it cool.
● Mix soda and flours.
● Beat the eggs up, add sour cream, sugar, salt.
● Now in this mixture, add the flour mixture.
● In the end, add melted butter and carrots and mix very
well.
● Pour the whole mixture in a baking dish and bake at 180°C
for 35 – 40 minutes.

8. 1. April
● Fools day
● Sending jokecards

9. St George´s Day
● On 23 of April
● All the nature is waking up
● Different sports activities

10. May Day
● On 30th April.
● The day of the witches and magic.
● Organized witch plays, campfires and people have the
barbecue.

11. Easter
● On the first Friday in April.
● Arrival of the spring.
● Colouring eggs with onionskins.
● Traditional foods are pasha and butter of eggs.
● Kicking eggs.

12. Pasha

13. Pasha description
● Pasha is a traditional Easter dessert. It is
traditionally baked in a special wooden mold that
has the orthodox Easter symbols carved into the
sides so that they are impressed on the dessert
when it is unmolded. For the clearest impression of
the designs when using a pasha mold, use no more
than two layers of cheesecloth. If you don't have a
pasha mold, a clean five to six inch clay or plastic
flower pot with drain holes on the bottom makes a
rather pretty substitute.

14. Ingredients
● 200 g butter ● 50 ml slivered almonds
● 750 g milk curds ● 2.5 ml ground ginger
● 3 eggs ● 2.5 ml ground cloves
● 200 ml whipped cream ● 2.5 ml ground cinnamon
● 50 ml sugar ● 10 ml lemon juice
● 100 ml raisins
● 50 ml candied citrus zest

15. Whip the cream
with a sugar

16. Added all the
others ingredients

17. Placeing the
mixture into the
mold

18. Directions
● Whip the cream with the sugar until it holds stiff peaks.
● Melt the butter; when it is hot, combine it with the milk
curds and eggs; add all the remaining ingredients; let cool;
● Gently fold the whipped cream into this mixture;
● Line a pasha mold with thin gauze or cheesecloth; place
the mixture into the mold; let drain for a day, pressing
down on it from time to time; keep in a cool place or in the
crisper of the refrigerator;

19. Egg wrapping

20. Wrapped eggs

21. Boiling the eggs

22. First we failed

23. Got many beautiful eggs

24. Egg kicking

25. Sprat sandwiches with eggs