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...
BREAD (BREWED RYE, BREWED WHEAT) AND OTHER PRODUCTS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS
Bread Road with Feast and Mill Inspection. Duration - about 3 hours.
Mill educational program with product tasting . Duration - about 1.5 hours
Activities: observing the production of rye sifting, wheat wholemeal flour and rolled flour, grains, pancakes and bread. Tasting.
The programs are being held in Lithuanian and Russian.
Seasonality: all seasons.
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....
