Festive Ukrainian Cooking

Festive Ukrainian Cooking 

Marta Pisetska Farley 

Published by the University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa., 15261 

Copyright © 1990, Marta Pisetska Farley 

All rights reserved 

Eurospan, London

Manufactured in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Farley, Marta Pisetska.

        Festive Ukrainian cooking/Marta Pisetska Farley. 

                p. cm. 

        Includes bibliographical references. 

        ISBN 0-8229-3646-1 

        1.Cookery, Ukrainian.                                              2. Ukraine-Social life and customs. 

       I. Title. 

    TX723.3.F371990 

    641.5947'71-dc20                                                                                                   90-30614

                                                                                                                                         CIP

Contents

Acknowledgments ix

 Introduction xi 

Note on Sources xix

 I Traditional Feasts

 1  Christmas Eve (Sviata Vechera) 3

 2 Christmas (Rizdvo Khrystove) 27

 3 Easter (Velykden') 37

 4 First Sunday After Easter (Provody) 60

 5 Feast of Saint George (Sviato Iuriia) 72

 6 Pentecost (Zeleni Sviata) 78

 7 Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (Petra) 85

 8 Feast of the Transfiguration (Spasa) 93

 9 Feast of Saint Demetrios (Dmytra) 103

 10 Feasts of Saint Catherine and Saint Andrew (Kateryny i Andriia) 114

 

II Family Celebrations

 11 Weddings (Vesillia) 125

 12 Name Days (lmenyny) 142

 13 Gathering Wild Mushrooms (Hryby) 177

 Appendixes 191

 Notes 195

 Glossary 201

 Bibliography 207

 Index to Recipes 211