Great Lent
So, all the celebrations are over, all the singing and dancing is in the past. The Pancake week has passed – the Great Lent has come. What is Great Lent? It is a precious gift to us from our Saviour, Who Himself fasted for forty days and nights, and did not eat or drink
So, all the celebrations are over, all the singing and dancing is in the past. The Pancake week has passed – the Great Lent has come. "What is Great Lent? It is a precious gift to us from our Saviour, Who Himself fasted for forty days and nights, and did not eat or drink. It is a really precious gift for those who are looking for rescue, as pacifier of soul passions. By His word and His example God has legalized it for His followers. With what love, what divine blessed forces does God serve all those truly fasting! He visits them, purifies; renews, strengthens in struggle against passions... teaches any virtue and brings to perfection...", wrote father John of Kronshtadt.
The Great Lent is a preparation for The Resurrection by repentance, plunging into internal spiritual life, renunciation of its material side. The Great Lent is the longest of all fasts and also the most important and strict. It lasts seven weeks before Easter. First six weeks of the Lent till Friday of the sixth week have canonical name "Sacred Forty Days ". The last, seventh, week before Easter is the Holy Week, or Great Week, which gives the name to the Lent. It is recommended to do without food on the first two days and the last day of the Lent, and to be moderate and restrict yourself in foods on other days. During the Great Lent the church allows 4 degrees of fasting: "dry" you can eat bread, vegetables and fruit, fresh and marinated; "cookings without unction" - jams and vegetables without vegetable oil; - "permission for wine and unction" - wine is drunk moderately to strengthen those who observe the Lent; - "permission for fish" - fish is allowed to eat only on holidays of Annunciation and Palm Sunday. As for the vegetable oil, it can be consumed only on Saturdays and Sundays.
Pickled Beet
Ingredients
(for 4 portions)
1 beet
salt, caraway seeds
vinegar
sugar
horseradish
Cooking
Boil, peel and slice beet. Cover with marinade - 0.5L water with salt, caraway seeds, a little sugar, vinegar and shredded horseradish. Put in the fridge for 1 day. Take out of the marinade, slice coarsely and serve as a garnish to boiled potatoes on lettuce leaves.
Beet Salad With Garlic
Ingredients
(for 4 portions)
1 boiled beet
2 clove garlic
3-4 walnuts (or a few other nuts)
a handful of raisins, or cored and sliced prunes
vegetable oil
Cooking
Boil, peel and grate beet coarsely, add crushed garlic cloves, scalded and dried raisins or cored and finely sliced prunes, add crushed nuts, dress with vegetable oil and stir thoroughly. Serve in a salad bowl shaped as a hill and sprinkled with fresh parsley.
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