Lithuanian Cuisine: The Lithuanian cuisine is a very simple cuisine of rural origin, which fells the effects from the Polish, German and Scandinavian cuisines. The basic food are potatoes, fish usually smoked, and meat. The soups are a typical dish of the country, the beet soup is the best-known whether in his hot type Barščiai with sour cream and chopped mushrooms, whether in that cold Šaltibarščiai, with vegetables, sour cream and boiled eggs or potatoes. The cepelinai are big grated potato dumplings filled with meat or cheese, and constitute one of the most popular dishes. In the Lithuanian cuisine is often used sour cream that accompanies many dishes. Very exquisite are mushrooms used mainly for sauces that accompany the fish, soups or as a side dish to meat. The pork meat, fried, salted, smoked or grilled is the most widely used. The fish is often freshwater fish as pike and perch. Most of the recipes are accompanied by potatoes. Among the potatoes dishes are the kugelis (a potato pudding), Vėdarai (potato sausage stuffed with pork intestine). Renowned are the cheeses (fresh, fruit or smoked) and the black rye bread (duona). The Lithuanians desserts are pankukas, pyragas, Kūčiukai or šližikai (small baked cakes), ledai (ice cream), spurgos (donuts filled with jam), Šakotis or raguotis (layers cake similar to the German baumkuchen), Žagarėliai or krustai or chrustai (fried pastries with icing sugar). Among drinks, beer (Alus) is certainly the favorite. The Trauktinė is a herbal vodka, the most famous vodka is "999", obtained with a range of 27 herbs.