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: getting acquainted with Lithuanian culinary and cultural peculiarities, preparation of dishes and eating.
Duration depends on selected dish / dishes.
Language: Lithuanian.
Seasonality: all year round.
Activities: preparation for bread baking - cleaning the oven, forming a bread dough loaf, baking, getting to know bread traditions, production, utensils. Tasting.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Languages: Lithuanian, Russian and English.
Seasonality: all year round.
Tree cake – is a high and empty conditery bakery, which is baked on a rotary broach by pouring thin layers of dough. The tree cake came to Lithuania from Germany at the end of the nineteenth century, and it became popular in the whole region of Suvalkija. It was begun to be baked in parsonages and monasteries. A tree cake has been an integral part of the Lithuanian festive table since ancient times. The specialty is in the appearance and taste of a tree cake. When you make a...
