Everyone loves dumplings: with butter, and with sour cream. Delicious - swallow your tongue! But this dish also has another purpose - fortune-telling on dumplings.
Content:
- Legends of deep antiquity
- Ritual rules
- The right dough for fortune-telling dumplings
- The value of the fillings
- How to perform the ceremony
A look into the past
This custom appeared at the dawn of the formation of Slavic culture and has survived to this day. Something was lost, something was added, but the essence did not change. The Slavs lived in clan communities, and the strength of the clan, its spirit and power, were reflected in everyday life. Nowhere in the world is there a special time for fortune telling. And only the Slavs, in the deep winter, when the world was in the power of Mary, asked for their fate. With the advent of Christianity, people did not abandon their customs and transferred them to the new faith.
Shh, the Old New Year is inaudible, which means it's time to gather the whole family and mold your own destiny!
Basic rules of fortune-telling: preparation and attributes
It must be said right away that beauties who decide to buy a ready-made semi-finished product in order to save their manicure can guess in another place and on other things. Fortune telling on dumplings implies an independent dish, and the whole family should do this, and not one housewife.
Tili - tili - dough …
First you need to prepare the dough. Each family member must do his bit: who will serve the egg, who will sift the flour, and who will bring water. The older woman of the clan should knead the base. The recipe is simple:
- Flour - 2, 3 glasses
- Egg - 1 piece
- Milk - 1/2 cup
- Water - 1/3 cup
- Vegetable oil - 1 tsp.
- Salt to taste
This is an ancient recipe for the most correct, fortune-telling test. It can be used in everyday life, but it is better not to waste the secret power of products. Just look at the ingredients. Milk in winter is too expensive and valuable product. It was not sprayed, every drop was carefully stored. In addition, at a certain time, the cow was not milked. And here in the dough! Of course, such a product could only be used for exceptional purposes.
The value of filling for dumplings in 2022
Each product has its own meaning. But, the main thing to remember is that the ancient Slavs did not have much variety, and the potatoes were brought only under Peter I, and times have changed. Fillings for fortune telling are becoming different, more modern, but they do not lose their strength. In 2022, the following fillers can be used:
- Millet is a rich harvest;
- Buckwheat - health;
- A coin is wealth;
- Peas - good luck;
- Beans - pregnancy;
- Ring - marriage;
- Peanuts - matchmaking;
- A piece of dough - fulfillment of desires;
- Button - wealth in the house
- Greens (dill, parsley, onions) - health;
- Thread: blue - a long road, white - an easy way, red - fun;
- Raisins: a man is a fortress of masculine strength, a woman - to increase beauty;
- Paper money - the volatility of wealth
- Olive - travel abroad
- Match - Real Estate Acquisition
- Foil - new car
- Salt is a solution to unsolvable problems;
- Bay leaf - promotion;
- Cheese - change of activity
The ancestors did not forget the youngest members of the family, the children. For them, there were also children's fillings, which not only delighted the kids, but also gave them the right to participate in fortune-telling on dumplings:
- Berries - good health;
- Fruit is a living mind;
- Sugar or sweets - fulfillment of cherished desires;
- Dried apricots - easy study;
- Orange - the appearance of a brother or sister.
The ancestors understood that it was impossible to do without trouble, and, of course, left fate the right to dispose of a peaceful life, health, and death. For such fortune-telling, there were fillings that do not lose their relevance in 2022:
- Garlic - to disease;
- Black thread - to death;
- Pepper - to war.
Such "sticks" were sculpted a little, so as not to cause trouble with their actions and to exclude them from falling into the plate. Therefore, "fortune-tellers" were molded much more than people. Who wants to pull out a "bad" dumpling?
Cooking ritual
Dumplings for fortune telling, as already mentioned, were sculpted by the whole family. It was important to give up your energy, think about your desires, and dream about your innermost. During the preparation they sang songs, had warm conversations, pronounced their ideas, because everyone knows the special power of the word, its materiality. The hostess chose the main filling, most often cabbage or, at a later time, potatoes.
The bulk of the dish was molded, so much so that everyone was full. But there was a trick. The magic filling was mixed with the main one so that it was not clear what was inside.
Dumplings for fortune telling were cooked separately and laid out on another dish.
Performing a fortune-telling rite
When everything was ready, the eldest man of the clan performed the offering ceremony. The usual tricks were offered to household deities: the housewife, the bannik, the barn. Then they were taken out onto the road and treated to the first person they met. Then, several pieces were left at the crossroads and on the border with the forest to appease the goblin. After that, they were offered to pets. By the way they treated the treat, ate it right away or turned up their nose, they drew conclusions about the successful outcome of fortune-telling.
After the offering, everyone sat down at the table, and the older woman walked around the audience, sprinkling them with water, in which the "fortune tellers" were cooked with the help of a wormwood broom, pronouncing a conspiracy. Any words can be used now. The main thing is that they contain the meaning of the request.
After completing the actions, everyone chose a fortune-telling dumpling for himself. Children took their "fortune tellers" from a separate dish. Well, and then they looked: who got what.
Old New Year is a special time. It is truly warm and soulful. These are hopes for the future, dreams of the innermost. This is a magical time that comes once a year, which means you need to use the chance to find out your destiny. Fortune-telling with dumplings with surprises is not only a fun activity for the holiday, but also a delicious prediction, a satisfying tool for implementing your plans.
