Dough larks: when to cook, how to cook, who to treat.
Slavic culture is unique and its roots go deep into the abyss of centuries. Despite the imposed Christianity in ancient Rus', people were able to transfer their customs and pagan holidays to the new Christian culture.
Thus creating a new round in Christian culture and customs. Even instead of the classic cottage cheese Easter, the Slavs continue to bake pagan Easter cakes and consecrate them along with Easter.
Dough larks
Another pagan rite, preserved from ancient festivals, is the delicious apple larks made from butter dough, which are traditionally baked in the spring, when the Earth comes to life again, is covered with a green carpet, and birds fly in from warm countries.
Dough lark
When are larks made from dough baked?
- Traditionally, larks bake for the day of spring. In Rus' there was no single date for such a holiday, since the country extended over a third of the continent and spring came at different times for each region
- With the advent of Christianity (which did not tolerate self-will, and sought to unify holidays in all its territories), it was decided to celebrate the arrival of spring on the day of the “forty martyrs” on March 9 according to the church calendar
- Today this date is March 22, but despite this, in many villages they bake larks and go out with them to celebrate the arrival of birds and the pecking of the first leaves on trees and bushes
Original larks made from butter dough
Fabric amulet
In Slavic culture, birds were given a special place - they personified the arrival of spring, and with their help they protected homes from evil. You can make such a talisman in a few minutes with your own hands from scrap materials and scraps of fabric.
To make a talisman you will need:
- square of bright fabric 20*20 cm;
- a small ball of cotton wool or padding polyester;
- sewing threads in a contrasting color;
- scissors.
We fix the tip of one of the corners of the square with threads. Under it, inside the corner, we place a ball of filler, tie a knot again - we get the head of the figurine.
We unfold the square, divide it into a tail and wings. Holding the middle with your hand, we begin to fix the details of the bird with threads crosswise. We thread a thread-loop under the cross and use it to hang the amulet in the house.
You can place such a figurine above the table where the whole family has lunch and dinner, above a crib, or in the bedroom. You can make a talisman not only from fabric, but also from other materials, using a different technique. The main thing is to work in a good mood, without evil thoughts.
There are never many such crafts. Miniature birds can be made of different materials, different sizes, and colors. Hide them in a flower pot, place them on a long skewer in a vase, hang them on a thread at the entrance to your house. They will delight and attract happiness.
How to make a lark from dough?
There are many variations in both the preparation of the dough and the technology for sculpting spring butter birds.
Option 1
We cut off a small piece of butter dough, make a medium-length “sausage” from it and tie it into a knot. One end will be the head, the other will be the tail.
Making larks: Option 1
We extend the head as in the photo and form a beak. We flatten the tail and make several cuts into the “feathers”.
Making larks: Option 1
The highlight is the mode into 4 parts and insert 2 pieces into the bird’s head in place of the eye.
Making larks: Option 1
Let it rise and bake.
Making larks: Option 1
Option 2
Again, cut off a piece of dough and form a “sausage”. But this time we don’t knit knots, but flatten one side and pull out the “beak” on the other.
Making larks: Option 2
We make one deep cut and several small “feathers” on the tail. We bend the lower “wing” upward as in the photo and insert an “eye” made of raisins.
Making larks: Option 2
Let it rise and put it in the oven. 5 minutes before readiness, brush with yolk or butter so that the lark browns.
Making larks: Option 2 Making larks: Option 2
Option 3
We form the “sausage” again, but this time we make a loop as in the photo.
Making larks: Option 3
From the loop we form the head and beak. Insert raisin eyes. We cut the ends, as in previous cases, into “feathers”. Bake.
Making larks: Option 3
Option 4
Now we form two “sausages” and lay them crosswise as in the photo.
Making larks: Option 4
The top “sausage” is flattened at the edges and wings are formed. The lower “sausage” on one side is flattened into a tail, the other side is formed into a head. Pull it out a little and create a key. Insert eyes.
Making larks: Option 4
We cut the wings and tail, creating feathers. Bake.
Making larks: Option 4
Cooking birds is a fascinating activity, be sure to invite the children to it. Having prepared the birds, everyone needs to eat in the house, treat the animals, and also give spring messengers to neighbors, friends, and just passers-by!
Making larks: Option 4
Making a bird using the quilling technique
Quilling is an ancient and very interesting art that is accessible to everyone. It is not at all necessary to purchase a professional tool; it is enough to use colored paper and plastic scissors. Master class on how to make a bird out of paper:
- First you need to cut a sheet of colored paper into small strips of 1 cm.
- Next, use the sharp part of the scissors to carefully pull the strip through. It should curl up into a spiral.
- From these parts you can assemble any animal, insect and bird.
Next, you can take a regular photo frame, remove the base from it and assemble the prepared parts into a composition. Spirals are easily deformed, so you can even create unusually shaped wings from them. All that is required from the master is boundless imagination.
Dough larks step by step
It is customary to begin preparing larks from Lenten dough at dawn. Preparing the dough:
- 1 tbsp. warm water
- 0.5 tbsp. flour
- 3 tsp Sahara
- 7 gr. Dry yeast
Pour in the dry ingredients, move, add warm water and place in a warm place near the oven, heater, radiator. Be sure to remove all drafts. We are waiting for the dough to increase several times.
Lean dough larks
- Add a little salt, sugar, vanillin, a couple of tablespoons of vegetable oil and 2.5 tbsp to the dough. flour. Mix everything and pour onto the table
- Knead until the dough is dense, but not tight. It should stop sticking to your hands
- Let it sit until it fits. Covering it with a linen cloth for the time being
- Modern housewives cover with cling film instead of cloth. Knead again and form larks
Angry Birds made of plasticine (yellow bird)
Making an angry bird from Angry Birds
The popular computer game Angry birds attracts gamers with high-quality animation and unusual dynamics. Among the unique living projectiles that are used to fight a virtual enemy, there are bright birds that have their own character, for example, the observant and intelligent yellow bird. It is often available to players from level one to sixteen, and helps deftly fight funny pigs. This master class will tell you how to create a yellow Angry birds from plasticine. Offer such an interesting activity to your preschool child, even if he does not play computer games yet, he will be interested in reproducing the hero by looking closely at him in the picture.
How to make an angry bird Angry Birds from plasticine
2. First, select a small amount of yellow plasticine. Knead it in your hands, and then roll it into a ball, which will determine the size of the craft.
3. Gradually deform the ball with your fingers to make a slightly rounded triangular shape. In the future, it is necessary to sculpt additional parts onto the blank, which will be made from other colors of plasticine.
4. Flatten a small amount of white plasticine with your fingers into a thin cake, shaped like a drop.
5. Place a white apron on the bird’s chest.
6. Prepare the eyes and beak to form the front part.
7. Stick on small parts, placing them close to each other. The sharp-eyed bird is ready to track the enemy.
8. Thick brown eyebrows will help make a bird look angry. Also sculpt a miniature black crest.
9. Attach the hairstyle to the top of your head. The character of the popular computer game is ready.
Angry Birds made from plasticine
If desired, a child can add to the set of angry birds, because modeling from plasticine is a fun and useful activity.
Read how to make a Black Bird Bomb from plasticine here
Lark made from unleavened dough
- Dry yeast, a pinch of salt and sugar are stirred. Add some warm water
- Let the yeast disperse
- Add a little more sugar, vanillin, vegetable oil and flour
- Add 1/3 cup of carrot juice to a glass of warm water
- Knead the dough and let it rise near the heat
Lark made from unleavened dough
- Knead the dough on the table and cut into strips 15*2 cm
- Each strip is tied so that a bird's head appears on top.
- The other end is crushed and cut into strips.
- We form a beak on the head, insert eyes from pieces of raisins
- Lubricate the larks with oil, sprinkle with sugar and put in the oven, first rise, and then, increasing the temperature, bake
Lark made from butter dough
No matter how much you run out of lean dough, your soul yearns for delicious butter rolls. Especially delicious larks with apples.
- 15 gr. fresh yeast add a spoonful of sugar and a teaspoon of salt
- Dissolve. Add a glass of warm milk, stir and knead with flour
- Let me come over. Add 1/4 cup of melted butter, 1 yolk, a little more flour (a total of 3-3.5 cups of flour is required), knead and let rise
Lark made from butter dough
- Fashion larks to your taste and imagination
- Insert raisins into the eyes, coat with strong tea leaves, let rise and bake
- If you decide to cook with apples, you need to peel and finely grate them. Sprinkle with sugar
- Then roll out the “sausage”, flatten it and put the filling inside
- After this, mold it like a pie and again give the appearance of a “sausage”
- Next, cooking the bird is no different from the usual method.
Making an owl from cotton pads
One of the simple ways to make a decent craft with your child in kindergarten. All material and tools that will be used are completely safe. The operating principle is very simple:
- You need to print the owl drawing on a printer.
- Next, cut out the shape along the contour.
- After this, cut the cotton pads in half and begin gluing the body.
- The head area can be made fluffy for recognition.
- Next, glue on the eyes; they can be purchased at any craft store.
To make the owl look impressive and beautiful, it is advisable to place it on thick cardboard or frame it. This activity will captivate not only children, but also adults.
Yeast dough larks
Yeast dough for spring larks is considered a classic option and came into everyday life as soon as yeast appeared instead of hop dough. It’s easy to speak if you follow the basic rules:
- The room is warm throughout the cooking time, closer to hot. But at the same time, under no circumstances should you put the dough on low heat or in the oven.
- No drafts, no sudden rush of fresh air (open door, window, etc.)
- It is also generally accepted that yeast loves the peace and tranquility of the hostess
Ingredients: For 1 kg of flour you will need 0.5 liters of milk, a pack (15 g) of dry yeast, 1 tbsp sugar, 1 tsp salt, 4 tbsp butter. spoons and 2 yolks.
- First, part of the sugar is diluted with salt, yeast and heated milk, a little flour is added and allowed to rise
- Next batch with eggs, remaining sugar, butter and additives (vanillin, cinnamon if desired)
- Let it rise, knead and mold the larks
Yeast dough larks
Angry birds cake. based on the game angry birds.
Ingredients
- for sponge cake for a 22-24 cm mold:
- chicken egg 5 pcs.
- granulated sugar 200 gr.
- flour 125 gr.
- for cream:
- milk 300 ml.
- chicken egg 2 pcs.
- granulated sugar 200 gr.
- flour 3 tbsp.
- butter 300 gr.
- chocolate 100 gr.
- for buttercream:
- butter 300 gr.
- boiled condensed milk 3 tablespoons.
- mastic on gelatin of different colors, see original recipe.
- for impregnation, strawberry jam 3 tablespoons and cold boiled water 100 ml.
Step-by-step cooking recipe
Let's bake a sponge cake, beat all the ingredients at once in a large bowl: flour, sugar and eggs. Beat for a long time, about 10 minutes, until the mass becomes airy and light.
Pour into a mold, the bottom of which is covered with baking paper, bake at 180 degrees. About 40 minutes until the splinter is dry, use your oven as a guide. Let cool in the mold for 15 minutes, then remove the biscuit from the mold and let it cool completely.
Prepare the custard: mix flour, eggs, sugar and half the milk in a bowl. Bring the second half of the milk to a boil, mix with the egg mixture and return to the heat again, cook, stirring constantly, until the mixture thickens.
Add the chocolate broken into pieces into the hot cream and stir until it is completely dissolved. Add whipped butter to the cooled cream.
For the butter cream, mix boiled condensed milk and butter at room temperature.
Cut the sponge cake into 3 layers and soak them in strawberry syrup.
Place butter cream with condensed milk along the edge of the sponge cake, and place custard with chocolate in the center. Repeat all layers. Line the cake with buttercream and refrigerate.
Roll out pink mastic to a thickness of 5mm. And cover the cake, trim off the excess. We tint with gel paints to the desired color.
We sculpt a nose from yellow mastic, teeth from white mastic, and add relief with a toothpick.
From white mastic, according to the template that we cut out in advance, attaching a sheet of paper to the biscuit, we cut out a breast for our bird, glue it to the cake, after moistening the bottom layer with water.
We cut out eyes of a suitable size from rolled out white mastic, roll out a thin rope from black mastic and cut out eyebrows.
The blanks for the eyes are ready, glue them to the cake using water.
Using the appliqué technique, we cut out the birds according to the height of our cake and glue them to the sides.
We make a slingshot and pigs.
We lay out the crest of the bird to dry, it should keep its shape. After drying, glue on the cake.
Enjoy your tea, my little and big fans of this exciting game!
Step by step photos of the recipe
1. In the recipe, I described in detail how to bake a sponge cake and prepare the cream; I will show you step by step only the assembly and decoration. Cut the sponge cake into 3 layers and soak them in strawberry syrup. Place butter cream with condensed milk along the edge of the sponge cake, and place custard with chocolate in the center. Repeat all layers. Line the cake with buttercream and refrigerate.
2. Roll out a layer of pink mastic to a thickness of 5mm. And cover the cake, trim off the excess. We tint with gel paints to the desired color.
3. Done, let it dry.
4. We sculpt a nose from yellow mastic, teeth from white mastic, and add relief with a toothpick.
5. From white mastic, according to the template that we cut out in advance, attaching a sheet of paper to the biscuit, we cut out a breast for our bird.
6. Glue it to the cake, after moistening the bottom layer with water.
7. Cut out eyes of a suitable size from rolled out white mastic, roll out a thin rope from black mastic and cut out eyebrows.
8. The blanks for the eyes are ready, glue them to the cake using water.
9. Using the applique technique, we cut out the parts for the birds, glue them together with water and glue them onto the sides of the cake.
Shortbread larks
They appeared relatively recently among those who deliberately abandoned yeast dough, but still love cookies and honor traditions.
Shortbread larks
So let's get started. Pour into container:
- 1 kg flour
- 30 grams of yeast
- 130 g butter
- 1 glass of milk
- Half a glass of sugar
- Egg 1 piece
- 50 g raisins
- A pinch of salt
Knead the dough first in a container with half the flour. Then pour it onto the countertop and mix thoroughly with the remaining flour. We form the larks and send them to bake.
5 minutes before cooking, brush with yolk and sprinkle with sugar.
Salt dough larks
How to properly prepare puff pastry in our video.
Salt dough larks
Video: How to make puff pastry? Two ways, fast and classic
Roll out the prepared dough, but not into a “sausage”, into a layer 3 cm wide, 15 cm long and form a lark, as in previous cases. Brush the top with sugar syrup and sprinkle with sugar.
