Borba, Jan 15, 2005, page 31

January, 2005. No 1

notional kitchen

Plum - Serbian National Fruit

Food, Drink and Pleasure

ASK ANY SERB WHICH IS THE FRUIT OF HIS NATION. WIT=" HOUT ANY HESITATION THEY WILL ANSWER: A PLUM. SMALL COUNTRY OF SERBIA USED TO BE THE FIRST IN THE WORLD BY NUMBER OF PLUM TREES. NOW SERBIA IS BEHIND THE USA AND CHINA. THERE ARE ABOUT 43 MILLION OF PLUMTREES NOWADAYS IN SERBIA. ONLY TWENTY YEARS AGO THERE WERE ABOUT 60 MILLION, AND IN XIX CENTURY EVEN MORE.

As a tradition, 99% plum-trees grow on private property, on small villagc households. Every Serbian house should havc at least several plum-trees, because children like to cat plums green or ripc, women cook tasty CODmjpOotcS, Drescrves, jams, and dried plum is very go0d for stomach.

'Preparing his army for a battle against powerful Austrian army in the World War ], the famous Scrbian wiarrior, Duke Zivojin Misic, proćured in surrounding villages. only onc warm drink for his soldiers - dryplum: tca, Being warmed up and relaxed by this potion,

Serbian soldicrs won this battic.

Plum is very often mentioned inm popular lovce songs, becausc young girls and boys meet in plum orchards, plum is an autumn fruit and autumn is wedding scason in Serbia...

"There is no wedding in Serbia without national drink, plum brandy, called slivovitz. Slivovitz is. produ-

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SERBIAN CITIES STREETS YOU CAN SEE PEOPLE CARRYING BUNCHES OF CABBAGE EROM THE GREEN MARKETS TO THEIR HOMES.

"hc inhabitants of Serbia can't imagine to spend thc winter without sour cabbage in thcir food storerooms. The sour cabbagc is rich with vitamin Ć and can bc caten cooked in different

ways, but also raw, as a sa-

HOW TO PREPARE PROYA (PROJA):

Mix about 1/2 kg of corn flour with 200 mi of water, 2 spoons of oil, 1 egg and 5 gr. of baking powder.

You put the mixture in an oiled cake tin and bake it in a preheated oven (220%C) for 20-25 minutes.

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lad, cut in small picces, flavoured with sunflower oil and hot red pepper powder - ALEVA PAPRIKA.

"hc sour cabbage juice,

called, RASOL, is used after long, winter parties, to hecl the usual hangovcr and to stimulate digestion.

HOW TO PREPARE SOUR CABBAGE:

'The cabbagc heads have to be properly washed and thc root parts cxtracted and filled with salt. You put the prepared cabbage hcacls in 4

ced by individual land lords of- their own plums.

Boilers for brandy distillation are moved from a house to a house, brandy is distilled followed by music, songs and conversation and cellars and pantries are filled with barrels and glass demijohns full with slivoVitZ. Slivovitz is almost ritual potion. Ncither wedding

nor funeral starts without it: neither banquet, or feast, nor visit to a friend; even cveryday's lunch begins with this drink. A bottle of slivovitz is the most appropriate and thc most practical present to a friend, a guest, it is thc best baggage to a traveler, čven sick people usc sliyovitz as cold compress to lower thc temperature...

Sour cabbage rolls (Sarma)

Ingredients: sour cabbage, 5 or 6 onions, 750 g of mixed minced pork and beef, salt, pepper, parsley etc, teacup of rice, few pieces of bacon, laurel leaves, red pepper powder

The sour cabbage leaves are washed and separated and the thick parts removed.

You cut 5 or 6 onion bulbs into small pieces, fry them in a pan and then add 750 gr. of mixed minced pork and beef, frying the mixture for next 10 minutes. ,

You add salt, pepper, mixture of spices for cabbage rolls and a teacup of rice.

You put the prepared mixture with a coffee spoon into each leaf of cabbage, rolling it tightly.

The cabbage rolls are put in a casserole, with pieces of bacon or smoked pork meet between them. You add some laurel leaves and red pepper powder and cover the rolls with water.

After 20 minutes of cooking on the stove, on moderate temperature, you put the casserole in the preheated oven (200'C) and cook them for another two hours. ~

Sour cabbage dishes are best when served with PROVYA, a kind of corn flour brend.

weeks. After 3 to 5 wecks the sour cabbage is ready for usc. If you don't havc time

to prepare it yourself, you

and add water and some more salt (50 gr. for cach liter of water). Then, thc barrcl is covered, but not her-

muotically, and the water has to be mixed over inside thc barrcl daily during thc first 2

can always buy it on any open market or in food shops.

big wooden or plastic barrel

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