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...
SM OKED MEAT PRODUCTS AND POTATO PIE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM
Activities: getting acquainted with the history of potato pies and smoked meat products, active participation in the production process, visiting the meat smokehouse (from which the meat is taken out), tasting meat, potatoes peeling and grating, potato pie dough cooking, baking, tasting.
Duration 1-1.5 hours approx.
The educations are being held in Russian, English, Lithuanian.
Seasonality:...
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.
The manufacturers of herbal teas keep the wisdom of their two grandmothers, each taught in their own way, had their favourite herbs and access to them. Such diversity of plants in the meadow and forests of the Plunge district is not everywhere to be found. Teas and spices produced by the sisters are recognized as a national heritage product.
Activities: getting acquainted with the plants, recognizing them, making tea and tasting.
Duration of training: 2 hours.
Languages:...
