Cooking and eating Mulgi puder, traditional mashed potato…Estonia
Representative List 2024
EN: The components of Mulgi puder (traditional mashed potatoes with barley in Mulgimaa region, Estonia) are potatoes, barley, smoked pork, onions and water. This dish stays fresh for a long time, and is suitable for heating again the next day. Tarvastu Handicraft Centre
EN: The teachers of Mulgi culture and language, Kristi Ilves and Aime Mäeorg, are introducing the cooking and eating of Mulgi puder to newspaper journalists, so that people all over Estonia would learn about it. Tarvastu Handicraft Centre
EN: Community members of Mulgimaa in Heimtali, discussing how the tradition of Mulgi puder can be introduced wider. The agreement to submit this tradition to the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage is being formed
EN: Community members of Mulgimaa around a common dining table in Heimtali, testing the Mulgi puder made by a local master. Experiences are being shared about using the leftovers for either a soup or cutlets the next day
EN: Mulgi puder is served with pan fried pork knuckle, pickles and kefir. Nowadays meat is often substituted with some vegetables, and a piece of butter is melted in the middle of a serving. This dish is healthy and nutritious
EN: In Mulgimaa schools Mulgi puder is served almost every month. In the August Kitzberg Gymnasium pupils have gathered into the school's canteen to eat this dish, served either with or without meat and different side dishes
EN: Boys and girls, pupils of the August Kitzberg Gymnasium, are in their school's lesson about Mulgi culture, and the teacher Alli Laande id teaching them how to cook Mulgi puder. When ready, they'll eat it together
EN: Mulgi puder is mashed with a special wooden tool made out of a straggly treetop of a fir or pine tree. The tool in the photo is made out of a used christmas tree. August Kitzberg Gymnasium
EN: The community members from all over Mulgimaa have gathered in Karksi-Nuia, to share their experiences about cooking Mulgi puder and choose this year's public's favorite Mulgi puder
EN: Õie Pavelson is a mother and grandmother in Mulgimaa, preparing for a common family dinner with her son. She has learned the skills from her grandmother. Today her daughter in law and grandchildren helped her make the dish
