{"id":1468,"date":"2014-02-20T16:40:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T16:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aeginagreece.com\/aegina-island\/?p=1468"},"modified":"2017-06-21T10:42:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T10:42:22","slug":"nettle-pie-tradition-aegina-tsiknopempti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aeginagreece.com\/aegina-island\/nettle-pie-tradition-aegina-tsiknopempti\/","title":{"rendered":"Nettle pie \u2013 a tradition in Aegina on Tsiknopempti"},"content":{"rendered":"

In books about local traditions we find ‘general’ traditions for every season of the year, practically for every week of the month too! For today, Thursday, Tsiknopempti,<\/i> they write about Nettle pie. This tradition required\u00a0 housewives to grapple with making a pie with a rather unusual plant, and tasty vegetable \u2013 the nettle.
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The pie would be something in times of austerity which could take the place of the smell of cooking meat. Particularly in the villages of Epirus, where at this time nettle-pies will be baked everywhere.<\/p>\n

So let’s see how this special day is celebrated in other parts of our country:<\/p>\n

The three weeks of Apokries are called Profoni, Kreatini <\/i>and Tirofagou.<\/i> It is in the Kreatini <\/i>week we find Tsiknopempti <\/i>where according to tradition, large amounts of meat are consumed in preparation for the fasting of Lent. In Orthodox tradition the fasts of Wednesdays and Fridays are important, thus Thursday is the most appropriate day for a binge.<\/p>\n

Tsiknopempti <\/i>gets its name because all homes are roasting meat and the air is filled with the smell of roasting fat \u2013 tskina<\/i>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to custom the day of Tsiknopempti<\/i>:<\/strong><\/p>\n