Illustration, gouache and watercolor on paper
New Year’s Cheese Pie
When I was a child, my grandmother and my mother would bake each year on this day our New Year’s fortune pie. Only recently in my ethnological pursuits I found out this was customary for the entire region where I was born, as part of the time renewal ritual practices. People would bake a sweet bread where they would hide a silver coin and whoever found it would be lucky the year to come. In time this sweet bread was replaced by a sweet cheese pie.
Lithuanian Honey Cake
Here is another Lithuanian festive dish, the Honey Cake.