tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8986048791171437584.post537576870131843721..comments2024-03-17T15:09:03.222-04:00Comments on Femme au foyer: A Baltic Christmas Day 5 - Piparkūkas!Lienehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07479489443374383602noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8986048791171437584.post-36896344617256354522021-09-13T14:54:35.390-04:002021-09-13T14:54:35.390-04:00Hope they turned out!!Hope they turned out!!Lienehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07479489443374383602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8986048791171437584.post-36130818825168365112021-09-13T14:53:05.257-04:002021-09-13T14:53:05.257-04:00Thank you, happy holidays to you and your family a...Thank you, happy holidays to you and your family as well!Lienehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07479489443374383602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8986048791171437584.post-4317641322180358302020-12-16T13:26:14.594-05:002020-12-16T13:26:14.594-05:00Hello! I wanted to add a comment and say thank you...Hello! I wanted to add a comment and say thank you for this recipe. I have been using it for the past three years to bake and share with my family. It was tradition to make Piparkūkas with my father every year. And since his passing, I have been keeping with the tradition. You have brought a lot of smiles to my family. Happy Holidays from New York!Melissanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8986048791171437584.post-45777945644923980172020-12-13T09:05:18.590-05:002020-12-13T09:05:18.590-05:00Wonderful post! I, too, am a first-generation Lat...Wonderful post! I, too, am a first-generation Latvian, and have never been a fan of piparkūkas. My childhood memory of these cookies--eaten at my grandmother's house as my Mom is not a baker--is that they are hard as rock and difficult to eat! My dear Godparent's daughter inspired me this year to make them myself so I'll discover the previous childhood batches were not made correctly. My dough has been curing in the fridge all week, and I've pulled out my pasta maker for it's inaugural use. . .wish me luck! :) Keenie28https://www.blogger.com/profile/05655582889952541789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8986048791171437584.post-56860063519623980202014-12-16T19:56:17.466-05:002014-12-16T19:56:17.466-05:00Thank you Ērik! Despite having a Kitchen-Aid rolle...Thank you Ērik! Despite having a Kitchen-Aid roller, we still roll out by hand because my results always came out in pieces. I have decided to give it another try!Lienehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07479489443374383602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8986048791171437584.post-30384007938032482262014-12-16T19:51:56.574-05:002014-12-16T19:51:56.574-05:00Ēriks "the roller" writing: Great post!...Ēriks "the roller" writing: Great post! <br />FWIW, last year's dough was tucked away in the freezer and forgotten about.... but rolled out beautifully on our hand-crank pasta roller once warmed to room temp and kneaded a bit to soften the structure.<br />For both hand-crank and Kitchen-Aid pasta rolling, thickness setting #4 works well, but anything faster than speed 1 on the Kitchen Aid makes things happen too quickly.... <br />The pre-rolling is necessary (after a bit of hand kneading to warm the dough if it has cooled) so the pasta rollers will 'pull in' the dough. Too thick and the rollers won't pull, too thin, and the sheet falls apart before the rollers can do their job. The pre-shaped dough is rolled out onto parchment paper strips - about 3 ft. long is a convenient length to work with. A strip of 1/8" plywood under the parchment paper makes handling the strips much easier. <br />The greatest advantage of the pasta rollers is to make piparkūka thickness uniform - which helps standardize baking time. <br />Kudos to Inga for sharing her love of Latvian cooking traditions!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8986048791171437584.post-31724723143026202872014-12-10T07:18:21.859-05:002014-12-10T07:18:21.859-05:00I imagine it might be harder to work with, more fr...I imagine it might be harder to work with, more fragile during rolling? I think if it weren't for the Latvian <i>tirdziņi</i> selling the dough in most of the Latvian centers in December there would be far fewer people baking <i>piparkūkas</i>... But it is possibly because they are so hard to buy ready-made that so many people still bake their own - even with year-old dough!Lienehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07479489443374383602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8986048791171437584.post-39296615812686159002014-12-10T00:52:36.019-05:002014-12-10T00:52:36.019-05:00I hope you have fun baking with your daughters! I ...I hope you have fun baking with your daughters! I bet the powdered sugar is great - it gets melty and sort of glazes the piparkūka? mmm, have to try that this year.<br />Ingazilgmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11220812601631132892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8986048791171437584.post-52829878134113892652014-12-10T00:50:48.469-05:002014-12-10T00:50:48.469-05:00paldies, Daina!paldies, Daina!zilgmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11220812601631132892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8986048791171437584.post-36999367216143271422014-12-10T00:50:14.399-05:002014-12-10T00:50:14.399-05:00ha ha, me too....
Inga, aka mom, aka zilgma...ha ha, me too....<br />Inga, aka mom, aka zilgma...zilgmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11220812601631132892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8986048791171437584.post-62304867521525099672014-12-10T00:48:17.312-05:002014-12-10T00:48:17.312-05:00Oh, and just this past weekend, I found out that p...Oh, and just this past weekend, I found out that piparkūku mīkla frozen from last December makes piparkūkas almost just as good as the current dough - my friend Jane, wife of the expert roller for our school talka, Ēriks, sent a small box with him Saturday, and they look fine, taste fine.... who knew? The things we can find in our freezers! zilgmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11220812601631132892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8986048791171437584.post-59309424765544594882014-12-07T07:23:26.118-05:002014-12-07T07:23:26.118-05:00I am 1st USA generation born too! I got my spicy c...I am 1st USA generation born too! I got my spicy cookies from the Mpls Latvian church yesterday and a kind friend saved some dough for me. My 16 yr old daughters and I will roll, roll, roll our dough today. We will cut and sprinkle. My family did alittle sprinkle of powdered sugar fresh out of the oven. This smell IS my Vetsmommy's. I will remember with a SIGH in my heart. A gift beyond gifts that you cannot buy. Thank you for this post!!! Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14491937167473908889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8986048791171437584.post-17643765707770717362014-12-07T03:15:37.293-05:002014-12-07T03:15:37.293-05:00Haha that made me laugh Liene!Haha that made me laugh Liene!Queen Of The Armchair aka Dzintra Stitcherieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07450454650624806716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8986048791171437584.post-66931932016894790342014-12-06T12:52:10.002-05:002014-12-06T12:52:10.002-05:00Ohh, this made my mouth water!! Wonderful post, pe...Ohh, this made my mouth water!! Wonderful post, perfect photos, cool that two different recipes are offered. Dziesmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00563380904245865832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8986048791171437584.post-51223551892547148172014-12-05T19:34:26.076-05:002014-12-05T19:34:26.076-05:00Or with the length of this post, a book ;)Or with the length of this post, a book ;)Lienehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07479489443374383602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8986048791171437584.post-80798621835700276352014-12-05T17:38:15.618-05:002014-12-05T17:38:15.618-05:00Mmmm who can resist Piparkukas! Great post Inga a...Mmmm who can resist Piparkukas! Great post Inga and perhaps you should start a blog!Queen Of The Armchair aka Dzintra Stitcherieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07450454650624806716noreply@blogger.com