Dagnija Bramane
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Do you observe fasting in your family nowadays and what is fasting related to in such a physical, spiritual meaning?
Since my family is Catholic, we do observe Catholic traditions, including the fast. The traditional dishes of the fast usually include boiled potatoes, maybe with some linseed oil, or maybe with …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Dagnija Bramane
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Celebration of Christmas
Christmas is traditionally connected with going to church. In our family, everybody is Catholic and so we all together go to church. When we return from the church, it is the eve of the religious …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Dagnija Bramane
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The bathhouse traditions
Yes, we have a black bathhouse, i.e. the smoke is not let through the chimney, but it fills the whole bathhouse, therefore the walls are black and it is called a black bathhouse. We have thought that …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Dagnija Bramane
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About the acorn drink and dandelion root drink.
You, Dagnija, use the old time recipes to prepare acorn drink and dandelion root drink, which are called acorn or dandelion coffee, don’t you?
Yes, it’s a fact that I like to …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Dagnija Bramane
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The bread's baking traditions
In your family you bake bread yourselves, don’t you?
Yes, we still preserve this tradition of the olden times and we do bake bread at home. The holder of the tradition is my grandmother, who …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Dagnija Bramane
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The beer traditions
You mentioned that when beer is made then there are many related doings, traditions. Maybe you could tell me what these traditions are and where they are carried out, where you live, where it all is? …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Dagnija Bramane
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The traditional Jāņi [Līgo, Midsummer night festivities] drink must be beer. What can you say about beer?
Then, when some festivity is at hand, especially the Summer solstice, then we always ask Dad to make beer. He then says – well, I don’t know, if you help me to carry the water, …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Dagnija Bramane
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About the cheese preparation
You’ve said that you make cheese yourself – both Jāņi cheese and other types of cheese. Could you briefly tell me how you do that?
Yes, cheese is of various kinds. There is the so- …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Dagnija Bramane
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About The collecting and desiccation of herbs
Are there any regularities of collecting and desiccation? You named those herbs. Maybe you could tell me, if the moon phase is important, what the rules are, how herbs are desiccated, how …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Dagnija Bramane
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I suppose, in Latgale almost in every farmhouse people collect plants and medical plants, which are desiccated and used to make tea?
Yes, also at my home my ancestors were walking the fields and looking for herbs, and also my grandmother told me a lot, that my grandmother’s mom also collected various herbs. Me too, reading a …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Dagnija Bramane
