Rinkēvičs tries his hand at baking sklandrausis in Kuldīga

Latvian President Edgars Rinkēvičs recently visited Kuldīga, a town in the Kurzeme region, where he tried making sklandrausis, a traditional dish of Kurzeme, at the Kuldīga Technology and Tourism Technical School. The visit is documented in a post on the president's Facebook account.

Rinkēvičs assessed his own effort in the post, saying he had tried his hand at baking sklandrausis during the visit to the school and that it "almost worked out".

Another stop on the visit

Besides the technical school, the head of state also visited the Kuldīga social services centre "Tilts". The source does not say what he did there or what was discussed.

A protected product

Sklandrausis has a special status in the European Union. In 2013, the European Commission approved its registration under the "Traditional Speciality Guaranteed" scheme. This made the traditional Latvian pastry the first agricultural product in Latvia to be protected at EU level.

The video published on the president's account shows the country's top official working in the kitchen to prepare the dish. The exact date of the visit is not given in the source, which says only that it took place recently.