Delicious recipes for Old New Year 2020

1. Traditions of the Generous Evening2. Rituals: how to make the year rich and successful3. Basic signs for the Old New Year4. Fortune telling for the Old New Year

The tradition of celebrating the Old New Year dates back to the transition from the Julian calendar (now called the “old style”) to the Gregorian calendar, according to which almost all countries of the world live today. Over the years, the holiday has acquired its own traditions, signs and rituals.

Today, the discrepancy between the old and new calendars is 13 days, which is why the Old New Year is celebrated on the night of January 13-14. Along with this celebration comes our native Slavic holiday of Melanka. According to traditions, people prepare generous kutia, due to which Melanki is also called Generous Evening.

Traditions of the Generous Evening

Melanki and Old New Year dinners are usually celebrated at the table with the whole family; clothes should be neat, well washed and ironed. At the end of the meal, you need to meet with neighbors and friends, close grievances and disagreements with reconciliation.

The celebration itself is rightfully considered not only a family one. This evening, young people dress up as Baba Melanka and walk through the streets and show small performances. According to the script, the woman-heroine is in a quarrel with grandfather Vasily, and also milks a goat, which is a symbol of the goddess of the month. The goat is then sold at the fair. The scene is filled with various characters. During the performance, people are wished goodness in the home, comfort, warmth, prosperity, good health.

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On this wonderful day, young people are given a unique chance to create their own family , plan a marriage, and conduct fortune-telling for their betrothed. If a young man was previously denied matchmaking, then during the Generous Evening he has another chance. The main thing is that the beloved is at home at this time.

Late in the evening, closer to midnight, the girls gather in groups and go to give generously . This action is carried out under the windows of houses. It is believed that on this night on the street you can see the new year seeing off the old one.

There is also a ritual of sowing , in which only children take part. The most generous gifts are received by those who knock on the door first (in the morning, of course). Sowing is accompanied by singing songs, telling rhymes, and dancing. All this is aimed at bringing happiness, prosperity, and a good harvest to the house.

Holiday bans: what not to do?

For a long time, people have believed that the Old New Year should not be celebrated in torn or old clothes. It should be elegant and beautiful, or even better – new. In this case, it is believed that the whole year will be in abundance and abundance.
Under no circumstances should you lend or borrow money. And in general, it is not recommended to resolve any financial issues.
Sulking and taking offense are also prohibited. You need to forgive the insults of others and not be vindictive yourself.
You cannot refuse to forgive a person, no matter how deep your offense is. If he asks for an apology, you need to forgive and forget past grievances, otherwise failures will haunt you all year.
Do not take trash out of the house on the 13th and 14th.

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But in the lives of children and adults on the Old New Year, in addition to prohibitions, there can be a lot of interesting things. After all, there are a number of long-standing rituals and traditions for celebration that are quite fascinating and entertaining.

Rituals: how to make the year rich and successful

The first, and perhaps the most famous way to give yourself and your loved ones a happy coming year is a rich dinner . The table must be rich in kutya, meat dishes, pies, homemade dumplings, pancakes and compote. The Old New Year will bring with it what it will be greeted with, so it is better that it be smiles, happiness, wealth, love.

The second ritual is to invite the first sower to the table and treat him to something tasty . If children come in a crowd, you can invite one of them. After sowing, the grain should be swept only in the morning of the Old New Year, and taken to the gate or into the yard.

The third ritual tradition is jumping over a fire . Our ancestors believed that this would cleanse the soul and body from various evil spirits, thus the whole family left all the “dirt” and entered the new year being cleansed.

The fourth, somewhat non-standard tradition is the father playing hide and seek with his children . The process itself goes as follows:

the mother of the family puts a full bowl of pies on the table;
the father sits down at the table and hides behind the pies;
children should ask: “Mom, where is our dad hiding?”;
the father should answer: “Can’t you see me? God grant that in the coming year the mountain of pies will be as large and there will be wealth in the house.”

The fifth ritual can be performed if there is a river flowing nearby, because the mother of the family will have to go to her at midnight and get water there . Afterwards, the mother must soak the bread in water three times with the words: “It is not the bread that bathes in water, but me and my family in health and strength.” After this, the mother must quietly return home and touch the heads of her relatives with this bread, while saying: “So that there are such great ones as St. Basil the Great.” After this procedure, a coin is thrown into the water. In the morning the whole family should wash themselves with this water.

Dumplings with potatoes and mushrooms

What's an old New Year without dumplings? This traditional dish is loved by both adults and children. You can quickly and deliciously prepare dumplings with cottage cheese, cherries, sauerkraut, or, as in the proposed step-by-step recipe with photos, with potatoes and mushrooms, what could be even tastier and more satisfying?

Ingredients for the dough:

1 chicken egg;
100 ml water;
30 ml vegetable oil;
400 g flour.

For filling:

6 potato tubers;
200 g champignons;
1 onion;
1 tsp. salt;
0.5 tsp. black pepper;
50 g butter;
2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil.

For the sauce:

150 ml sour cream;
a bunch of greenery;
0.5 tsp. salt;
2 tsp. capers;
2 tsp. mustard.

Preparation:

First, prepare the filling and to do this, boil the potatoes in salted water.

Chop the onion into small cubes and saute it in vegetable oil until golden brown.

Cut the mushrooms into small pieces and add them to the onion vegetable, fry until all the liquid has evaporated.

Mash the finished potatoes, add the overcooked mushrooms and onions, add a piece of butter, add salt and pepper, mix and leave the filling for the dumplings to cool.

For the dough, beat the eggs into a container, add water, oil, add salt and mix until smooth.

Now add flour in portions and knead a dense but soft dough, not clogged with flour. Cover and leave for 10 minutes.

Roll out the rested dough thinly and cut out circles. We don’t throw away the excess anywhere, but collect it, knead it with our hands and roll it out again.

Place the filling in the middle of each circle and make dumplings, which are immediately boiled in salted water for 10 minutes.

For the sauce, add finely chopped herbs and capers to the sour cream, add mustard and salt, and stir.

Serve the finished dumplings with the sauce.

Advice!
To ensure that the dumpling dough has the desired consistency, we use ice water.

Basic signs for the Old New Year

There are several popular signs that will tell you what the coming year will be like. So, if the night of the holiday is quiet and the sky is clear, you should expect good luck and happiness. At the same time, if the bright sun appears during the day, you can count on wealth and a generous harvest.

Frost on the trees is also a good signal (for the grain harvest). If clouds cover a particular side of the sky, joy will come from there. You should also enjoy the snow, it means happiness in the new year.

Krucheniki with mushrooms

Krucheniki is a dish of Ukrainian cuisine. They can be deliciously and quickly prepared with any filling. For the old New Year 2020, it is advisable to prepare krucheniki from pork, because we do not forget that for the holiday it is best to give preference to this type of meat. For the filling, you can use any ingredients you like that go best with pork; the suggested recipe with photo uses mushrooms.

Ingredients:

650 g pork;
300 g mushrooms;
1 onion;
1 carrot;
15 g butter;
3 bay leaves;
7-8 black peppercorns;
ground pepper and salt to taste;
vegetable oil for frying.

Preparation:

We cut the pork into 1 cm thick plates, then beat each meat slice with a kitchen hammer on one side and the other. Salt and pepper, then put in a bowl, cover with film and put in the refrigerator for now.

Cut the mushrooms into small cubes, chop the onion into small cubes, and grate the carrots on a coarse grater.

In a frying pan with vegetable oil, saute the onion until soft, and then fry with carrots.

Separately from the vegetables, with the addition of butter, fry the mushrooms until the liquid evaporates and turns golden.

Then add the fried vegetables to the mushrooms, add salt and pepper, mix, remove from heat and cool completely. Place the filling on the meat and roll it into rolls.

Afterwards, bread each kruchenik in flour and place it, seam side down, in a heated frying pan with oil, fry until golden brown on both sides.

Then pour in water, add a little salt, add bay leaves, black peppercorns and cook the dish covered for 30-40 minutes.

On a note!
If you don’t like mushrooms, then we cook krucheniki with prunes, vegetables and cheese, sauerkraut or pickles.