At the «Brest Sleighs» festival in Brest, a giant pie was baked and a huge cauldron of shurpa was cooked
The main venue of the traditional regional festival «Brest Sleighs — 2026» was the embankment of the Mukhavets River in Brest, where more than 100 food stalls were operating.
Giant pie. Photo: BelTA
For the festival, the masters of the «Brest Baker» enterprise prepared a two-tier festive pie weighing 115 kg and with a diameter of 3 meters. To bake it, 100 kg of wheat flour, 57 liters of water, 13 kg of sugar, 9 kg of margarine, 6.5 kg of yeast, and 1.2 kg of salt were needed. The Chairman of the Brest Regional Executive Committee, Pyotr Parkhomchyk, personally added powdered sugar to the pie's decoration.
Shurpa in a cauldron. Photo: BelTA
At another site, specialists from «Brest Meat Processing Plant» prepared the largest portion of shurpa ever cooked in Belarus, in an 850-liter cauldron brought from Uzbekistan. The dish used 200 kg of meat, 100 kg of potatoes, 30 kg of carrots, 15 kg of onions, 15 kg of tomatoes, 10 kg of bell peppers, 1 kg of chili peppers, 5 kg of dill, and 3 kg of cilantro. The shurpa was cooked for several hours from early morning, and Pyotr Parkhomchyk himself tasted it. Afterwards, anyone interested could taste the dish.
Among other events in Brest, a festive procession was also held.
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