Which Baltic country has the best food?

**~~Rugevit~~** · 05-27-2015, 01:12 AM

Originally Posted by ЛыSSый

I don't know, who from them is better, but i heartiliy like their sprats in oil. It was a great idea. And "riga" balsam, now here is prodused some balsam like it one, but "riga" was the first and still very tasty. Also sometimes i found in shops "baltic bread", sort of black bread, it also tasty and rather different from ordinary black bread.

Baltic bread is not traditional bread from the Baltic states. The recipe was invented during Soviet era. Similarly, Ukrainian, Moscow, Sumy, Riga, Latgalian, Karelian and many other breads named after cities or region were Soviet inventions. These breads were baked in different parts of the country. Baltic breads more often than not would be rye bread in which leaven agent (zakvaska) , a bit of scalded dough, molasses, malt are used. Ukrainian bread would have more wheat. These are good breads, but they were not traditional. In saying this Latvians and Lithuanians love rye breads. Not long ago I was watching a collection of pictures from Latvian bread museum.

This picture was taken in northern Lithuania. The size of the bread loaves is impressive.