Activities: getting acquainted with the history of gingerbread, making gingerbread, kneading dough, baking, decorating and tasting.
The duration of the training is 1-1.5 hours.
The trainings are being held in Lithuanian, Polish and Russian in Vilnius.
Seasonality: all year round.
Skėmiai Tavern: a Place of Tradition, Taste, and Entertainment
Skėmiai Tavern is a place where history, flavors, and old village traditions come alive. Since the early 19th century, this spot served as a roadside inn and a postal horse-changing station along the Kėdainiai–Baisogala route. Carriages, carts, buggies, and stagecoaches once rattled past here, while local men gathered inside to discuss community matters.
Today, visitors are greeted by four lively Skėmiai women – cheerful, musical, and full of energy – who have...
Activities: kneading the dough, making cookies, baking, tasting, listening to the stories about gingerbreads.
Duration of training: up to 3 hours.
Languages: Lithuania, Russian.
Seasonality: all year round.
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS: ”Potato buns of Dzukija“ and ” Buckwheat path from sowing to lunch “
Activities: listening to the stories about buckwheat, buckwheat babka and tea tasting. If spring – buckwheat seeding, if autumn - cutting. Then threshing, binding, grinding of grain, sifting of flour, kneading of buckwheat dough, baking, tasting.
Preparation of potato buns. Potatoes peeling, grating, forming a bun, putting into the oven....
