'Dessert' - Aleksandre Koberidze

Take a little bit of sugar,

and after - skinny sticks,

(but not the matches).

no matter if it’s the gas or the firewood -

prepare the sweets called Mamalo*,

when the electricity is gone.

If you live alone - do it on your own;

If there are others who share your home

ask them too -

- and all together, everyday, before the lights are back - as to follow the

timetable,

everyday - to follow the timetable,

learn by heart a piece of poetry!

(if it’s a long one - stick to one verse).

and don’t forget to eat the sweets, while learning.

When the lights are back you have to stand -

and all together - no matter if it’s a son or a husband,

a mother or a grand-dad,

whoever comes at hand -

say it loud and with your heart -

tell it to the lights which are now back -

the piece of poetry you learned that night.

and after you live ten years like this,

those lights shall never go out.

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Mamalo recipe:
Ingredients: ten tablespoons of sugar; four teaspoons of Lemon Juice
(Can be replaced with water).
Put sugar in a pot, add lemon juice. Cook on a low heat.
Stir continiuesly until sugar dissolves and becomes brown.
Pour the hot mixture into forms and put wooden sticks to each.

*if you are bored of Mamalo, you should try baking Sigua.

Sigua cake recipe:
Grate five apples, add a half cup of sugar, one cup of flour and baking
soda with vinegar. Pour onto a pan and bake in an oven.