Country kitchen Latvia, Vidzeme, Amatas novads

Araisi windmill

Specializations

	Type	Description
	Food	At one time the mill produced barley groats, and the miller’s family ate what they had grown on the farm and produced in the mill. Barley groat porridge is a hearty meal, and therefore the hosts have decided to offer the Miller’s Lunch to their guests as a demonstration of local historical foods. Only locally grown products are used for the Miller’s Lunch, and the full menu consists of barley porridge with meat sauce, dessert with berry jelly, and herbal tea or sour milk. PROGRAMME • The mill‘s hostess takes guests on a tour of all four floors of the mill. Guests can see the process of grain becoming flour, try grinding the flour and get to know the mechanisms of the mill • After the tour, the hostess serves the Miller‘s Lunch.

Certificates

Logo	Certificate name	Description
	Culture and history Latvian Heritage 09/16/2015	The windmill is at the highest elevation of the surrounding area, offering lovely views of the Āraiši church, manse and Lake Āraiši with its ancient lake castle. This is one of only a few Dutch-type windmills to still be in working order in Latvia after having been first built in 1852. The windmill is a museum, with four floors that allow visitors to track the way in which grain was ground and to try their own hand at grinding. Each year the windmill celebrates St Jacob’s Day, when fresh rye bread is the star of the process. Visitors can order a miller’s lunch of wheat flour porridge with meat sauce, crêpes, kefir and herbal teas. Host: Vineta Cipe Preserving Latvian architectural values in the landscape Praising Latvian foods: Bread
	Culture and history Latviešu virtuve	Miller’s lunch – wheat flour porridge with meat sauce, crepes, kefir, herbal teas.

Belongs to a brand

Logo	Brand	Description
	Flavours of Livonia - Catering	Ten kilometres from Cēsis and one kilometre from Āraiši Lake Castle, there are windmills, where it is possible, with the help of a guided tour, to follow the road of the grain into the flour, grind the grain, see all four floors of the mill. Owner Vineta Cipe offers a special "Miller‘s lunch" from grains milled in Āraiši windmill.
	Rye Road - Baker, Caterer	Individual visitors and groups of 10-80 people are welcome by prior arrangement. A tour of the mill and the Miller’s Lunch 1.5 h. A programme with bread baking in an authentic 13th century clay oven 2.5 h.