DDCD 2019 - Task 2 by STOSKIENE RITA https://padlet.com/rita100/ldefsgiy2e20 Bread is important food in all cultures. What traditions, customs, believes or superstitions are there about the bread in your family? en-us 2019-07-24 06:03:04 UTC 2023-01-29 15:57:28 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/6735307/6bd3ba3450b2857b8ae116e8983f672a/hibiscus_m.gif Rita rita100 https://padlet.com/rita100/ldefsgiy2e20/wish/270665354 Lithuanian traditional story about the bread.]]> 2018-07-20 00:18:06 UTC https://padlet.com/rita100/ldefsgiy2e20/wish/270665354 Nives https://padlet.com/rita100/ldefsgiy2e20/wish/400931256
On the 10-item list of Slovene specialities one should definitley find Potica. Slovenians used to associate Potica with abundance and wealth. It is a traditional form of sweet bread/pastry that we eat on special occasions like Christmas, Easter and New Year. For centuries Potica has been prepared in Slovenian homes with great care, almost as kind of ritual. Every housewife has its own recipe that is handed down from generation to generation. Slovenian potica comes in a form of circular cake and is most typically made with walnut, hazelnut, tarragon, poppy or pork crackling filling. There are almost 100 known recipes for sweet and savory potica. 
In my family we can not imagine  holidays without Potica. My favourite is the one that my aunt or my mother makes. Potica with tarragon and cottage cheese is my favourite and the smell of that always reminds me of home.


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In Italy, there is a saying: “Senza il pane tutto diventa orfano”, without bread everyone is an orphan; bread in Italian daily life has a presence at every meal. 
Italian traditions are reverent to bread. For example, in my family, when someone inadvertently sets a piece of bread on the table crust side down, somebody else immediately turns the bread over, right side up. This, in fact, could bring bad luck. The superstition seems to be based on the religious fact that bread is considered a symbol of life: turning it over is considered disrespectful.

]]> 2019-10-27 17:46:22 UTC https://padlet.com/rita100/ldefsgiy2e20/wish/403048688 Daniela danielafunck https://padlet.com/rita100/ldefsgiy2e20/wish/404916671 In Germany bread is one of the most important food. We know more than 300 different types of bread...white, black, grey, sweet, with corn or without....with onions, nuts, potatoes and herbs..There are so many varieties: soft or strong.. A normal breakfast starts with bread or rolls, during the day most of the German people have a bread with them it's called "Pausenbrot" (break bread) or "Brotzeit" "Breadtime"and our last meal of the day is called "Abendbrot " a translation could be "evening bread" Every year we have got an exchange with a Spanish school and the students always say after their return, that Germans really eat lots of bread. For Christmas we have got some special sorts of bread it's called "Christstollen" it's very sweet with sugar and raisins and I hope you like to taste it. ]]> 2019-10-31 11:20:56 UTC https://padlet.com/rita100/ldefsgiy2e20/wish/404916671 Mateja https://padlet.com/rita100/ldefsgiy2e20/wish/405609891 Bread holds a special place in Slovenian culture because it is not just food but also symbol of happiness and peace, it prevented poverty and hunger which were quite common back in the days. People didn't eat it every day but only for special occasions. Therefore, millers were very appreciated. They milled flower in big water mills. Babič mill on the river Mura, which is in business since 1935, is the only floating mill in Slovenia. It still mills flower for clients.

Nowadays people in Slovenia make a lot of bread on daily bases an also for different holidays. For example, every family makes special bread called potica for Easter and Christmas. Despite Slovenia being a small country, we have a lot of different recepies in different regions. 

My grandma taught me how to bake bread. I helped her to bake it every Saturday when I was little. We ate that bread for the whole following week. Nowadays I ocasionally bake different kinds of breads. I bake it with yeast or I make sour dough. Bread bombs are my children's favourites. Each time I make bread at home it feels like holiday. 
]]> 2019-11-01 19:26:48 UTC https://padlet.com/rita100/ldefsgiy2e20/wish/405609891 Anders TeacherASH https://padlet.com/rita100/ldefsgiy2e20/wish/406572095 There is a saying in Sweden from the 1970s that we should eat 6 – 8 slices of bread every day and here you can see a promotional video with that government message: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L57gVaG6zy4
 
We are the country where we are eating most hard bread (or crisp bread) in the world. On the picture you can see how it was stored back in the days. I like it with cheese and pepper. There are many different kind of hard bread and some of the tastes are seasonal, Christmas is one. You can find at least three different kind of hard bread in all school restaurants in Sweden.
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