Grated potatoes are strained through cloth, combined with some mashed boiled potatoes, salt, pepper and eggs. This mixture is folded around minced meat, shaped into oblongs and boiled in salted water. Meat can be substituted for by soft cottage cheese. Grated potatoes are also used to make sausages which are baked. in oven. This is a very ancient Lithuanian dish.
Pancakes are popular all over Lithuania.
Usually one tablespoon of batter is used per pancake, but in Aukstaitija pancakes are also made by spreading the batter over the whole pan. Such pancakes are the traditional breakfast dish in Aukstaitija served with butter, fried bacon or sour cream. Sometimes, especially in towns, they are folded over a tablespoon of cottage cheese or minced boiled meat. In Lithuania about 20 species of mushrooms are used as food. Up until the first decades of the 20th century mushrooms had been an important food product.