This section focuses on entertainment and has different interesting tasks as a crossword and a quiz about Estonia in it. Also, you can find a recipe for one of the German traditional foods– currywurst – here. For the more artistic audience, we have included a colouring page of Tallinn Old Town. This section was compiled by Nele-Liis Kurušev, Camilla Trusiani, León Oumier, Mario Casamitjana, Aleksandra Duda.

 

 

 

 

Currywurst

A cooking recipe

 

The Currywurst is a special kind of sausage. It was invented by the caterer Herta Heuwer in 1949 after World WarII. Today you can buy the Currywurst atalmost every corner in Germany.The German market leaders in Berlin areKrasselt’s, Konnopke and Curry 36 and they can be found in every travel guide.

Ingredients

• 1 onion

• 4 tablespoons (ts) oil

• 2 tl curry powder

• 0.25 little spoons (ls) of cayenne pepper

• 3 ts tomato paste

• 200 g ketchup

• 100 ml of naturally cloudy apple juice

• 2 little spoons of apple cider vinegar

• Salt

• Pepper

• 4 fine brewed sausages

Preparation

Finely chop 1 onion and fry in 2 tablespoons of hot oil for 2 minutes. 1 ls curry powder and 1/4 ls cayenne pepper. Stir in 3 tablespoons of tomato puree and sauté briefly.

Add 200 g of ketchup, 100 ml of naturally cloudy apple juice and 2 ls of apple cidervinegar and bring it to boil. Puree the curry sauce with the blender and season with salt and pepper.

Fry 4 fine brewed sausages in a hot pan in 2 tsp oil over medium heat for 10-15 minutes until golden brown. Slice the sausages, drizzle with the sauce and sprinkle with 1/2-1 ls curry powder.

 

 

 

Quiz about fun facts of Estonia

 

1. How many islands does Estonia have?

□ 2222 islands

□ 3333 islands

□ 1111 islands

 

2. Who was the first president of Estonia?

□ Lennart Meri

□ Konstantin Päts

□ Toomas Hendrik Ilves

 

3. A sport invented by Ado Kosk in 1993?

□ Wife Carrying

□ Skiing

□ Kiiking

 

4. How many times do you have to spit over your left shoulder for good luck?

□ One time

□ Seven times

□ Three times

 

5. What’s the reward for winning the wife carrying competition?

□ One year of free beer

□ One liter of beer for each kilo the wife weighs

□ Fifty liters of beer

 

6. How many times do you have to jump over the fences and the bonfire for good luck?

□ Seven times

□ Three times

□ Ten times

 

 

Answers are in the Impressum.

 

 

 

Did you know ...

 

... that the European anthem is Ode to Joy from the ninth Symphony of the famous German composer Ludwig van Beethoven, who wrote it in 1823, four years
    before his death, adding the texts of Friedrich Schiller from 1785. This musical poem expresses the idealistic vision of Schiller, in which all people are
    brothers – a vision shared by Beethoven himself ?

 ... that annually, the EU imports over 6,000 tons of frog legs from Asia ?

 ... that according to the EU, at the request of Portugal, a carrot is a fruit ?

 ... that the national athem of Spain has no words ?

 ... that Rome is almost 3,000 years old ?

 ... that Hamburgers got their name from Hamburg, German’s second largest city ?