Rusyn Christmas Foodways

Свята вечеря

Festival

The Christmas Eve supper — held after the first star, strictly meatless and dairy-free, and counted in an odd or symbolic number of dishes, commonly nine or twelve. Recurring elements: a honey-and-garlic dipped wafer or bread; boiled wheat or barley with poppy seed, honey and nuts; mushroom soup or kysele; bobaľky; meatless holubky; beans and peas; soured cabbage; fish; dried-fruit compote. ⚠ THE DETAILS DIFFER BY VILLAGE AND BY BRANCH — this is a family of tables, not one menu.