Minoan Sea Culture

A New Year’s Cake with a Difference!
This year, the staff at Cretaquarium decided to celebrate the festive period in an original way, by treating the animals hosted here to a New Year cake, as Greek tradition demands. So on 12th January 2010, the cake was cut in the presence of newly appointed General Secretary for Research and Technology Mr. Achilleas Mitsos. The recipe was of course somewhat different from normal, and was prepared by aquariologist Ms. Chrysa Doxa. To suit the fish’s appetites, the cake was made of ingredients that form part of their daily diet:

Ingredients:

   

Ground prawn and mussel mixture
Jellied processed fish food
Water
Gelatine
Shelled mussels (for the garnish)
Unpeeled prawns (for the garnish)

Method:

   

Blend the mussels and prawns and set them aside in a bowl. Dissolve the gelatine in hot water, then add the processed fish food and blended mussels and prawns. Mix thoroughly to an even consistency. Place the cake mixture in the mould and add the lucky “silver sixpence” – in this case a piece of salmon. Lastly, use the mussels to write the year (2010) on the cake, and finish off by garnishing with the whole unpeeled prawns.

The video below shows the Cretaquarium diver at work inside the tank, cutting the cake and sharing it out to the fish. 


 

Just for the record, the “silver sixpence” went to a lucky white sea bream.

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