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UKRAINIAN MEALS
The hospitality of Ukrainian people is well-known throughout the world.
When a foreigner sets foot in Ukraine first he gets acquainted with our
cookery — national dishes and meal-times. Frequently he gets to know that
in this country they are not the same as in his. But he has to do in Ukraine as
the Ukrainians do. The usual meals in Ukraine are breakfast, lunch, dinner
and supper. Sanatoriums, rest-homes, hospitals and other public
establishments generally follow the former order of meals. But a number of
Ukrainian families follow the latter order.
Breakfast is the first meal of the day. Lunch or luncheon is a light meal
usually in the middle of the day.
Dinner is the chief and the most substantial meal. It isn’t served at a definite
hour in our country. When it is in the middle of the day, the lighter evening
meal is called supper.
Working people usually have a break for dinner at their place of employment.
During the break they have either dinner or lunch.
In great many Ukrainian homes dinner is followed by a cup of tea with a
slice of lemon, jam or home-made pastry.
If you have a special dinner, a housewarming party for example, you
should know how to lay the table on such an occasion.
First you spread the table-cloth and put out table-mats to protect the table
from the hot dishes: a tureen of soup, a bowl of hot vegetables, a platter of
meat, a boat of sauce, etc. Then you take out of the drawer in the sideboard
soup spoons for the soup, spoons for the sweet and all the cutlery — knives
and forks, including a small knife for the butter, a small knife and fork for the
hors d’oeuvres and a fruit knife for the dessert.
You should put the knives and the soup spoon on the right-hand side and
the fork on the left, except the spoon for the sweet which you should put
across the top. Then you put out the bread-board and a knife to cut the bread.
On the left of each guest you put a small plate for bread and on the right a
wine-glass. Don’t forget to put out the table napkins for each guest and place
several salt-cellars.
Once again have a look at the table and see if it is laid for each person.
Then you are ready for the friends to come and don’t forget to put a bowl of
beautiful flowers on the dinner table.
I remember my last receiving the guests. It was my birthday party. I had
thought over the menu of that dinner-party before the guests came to my
place. I began with hors d’oeuvres followed by a clear soup with meat pasties,
the second course included chicken with rice and vegetables, salad and so on.
Then ice-cream for the sweet and fruit for dessert. And, of course, there was a
nice cake with the candles lighted. What a lovely birthday party I have had!