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Fish Galantine - Appetizer

Ingredients for 4:

1 lb fish fillet with skin
3 pieces wheat bread without crust
1/2 cup milk
2 tbsp butter or margarine
1 egg
Greens, salt and black ground pepper on taste
1/2 lemon

Method:

Peel off fish skin, cut and grind fish fillet.
Soak the bread in milk, and grind together bread and fish.
Melt margarine or butter.
Whip egg.
Mix together ground meat and bread, melted margarine, whipped egg, salt end pepper.

Cutlets Pozharsky

There are many legends about this recipe, but we consider the following one the most believable.
A tavern, which belonged to the Pozharsky family, was in the small town Torzhok, which is on the Moscow-St.Petersburg road.
Emperor Alexander the First had to stop because his coach‘s wheel was broken, and his servant ordered a breakfast for the Emperor and his court. The Pozharsky tavern was the most respectable around, so they got this order.
But, there was a problem with the veal cutlets in this order.

Cod liver salad 1 - Salads

This recipe with fish liver is very old. Before 1917, it contained fresh, boiled with greens and salt fish liver. Later, this was one of the most popular Soviet salads (the main problem was to get a can of “Cod liver in oil”). The recipe is one of the simplest, and very tasty. A person who lives in USA can get such cans in any European/Russian deli shops.
This recipe, like many Russian ones, allows variations in ratios of ingredients, and allows adding other ingredients.

“Carrots, cheese, nuts & garlic” - Salad

This is simple and tasty appetizer,or salad – it’s hard to differ.

Ingredients:

Carrots (peeled and shredded thinly)
Shredded cheese
Crushed walnuts
Crushed garlic
Mayonnaise on taste

Method:

Mix shredded carrots and cheese in a dish, and then add crushed walnuts, crushed garlic, and mayonnaise.
Mix very well.
Serve immediately.

Salad-cocktail “Mimosa”

Ingredients for 6:

1 can fish in oil
3 boiled medium carrots
3 hard-boiled eggs
1 shallot onion
Mayonnaise on taste

Method:

Knead fish in a serving dish.
Cover it with a thin layer of mayonnaise.
Grind carrots into the serving dish.
Cover it with a thin layer of mayonnaise.
Grind egg whites into the serving dish.
Cover it with a thin layer of mayonnaise.
Cut onion into small cubes; pour them evenly into the serving dish.

Vegetable puree

Ingredients:

½ lb potato
½ lb carrot
½ lb cabbage
1 cup hot milk
3 tbsp butter or margarine (optional)
Salt on taste

Method:

Wash and peel vegetables.
Boil cabbage, carrots, and potato in different pans with a little water, until they are ready (or in a microwave for about 15 minutes.)

Blend the vegetables with hot milk, butter, and salt.
Serve hot as a garnish.

Note:

Forshmak

It is a well-known dish of Old Russian, Swedish (fore smack), German (vor schmack), and Jewish cuisines. Advantage of forschmack is that is possible to cook this appetizer in multiple variations.
Everywhere herring is caught, forschmack is cooked, and it is possible to make forscmack with other kinds of sea fish.
So,

Ingredients of a basic recipe:

1 large herring or 2 herring fillets
2 hard-boiled egg
1 sour apple
1 medium onion
2 peaces white bread, soaked in milk or water
1’4 lb butter

Chanterelles in sour cream

Ingredients:

1 lb chanterelles
1 shallot onion (medium)
2 tbsp olive oil (or other vegetable oil)
2 tbsp all-purpose flour (optional)
Salt, sour cream on taste

Method:

Wash and clean chanterelles, or defrost, if you have frozen chanterelles.
Cut onion thinly and cook in a skillet with heated oil until the onion is transparent (or lightly golden.)
Pour the flour in the skillet, and mix well with onions.

“Tsar” schi

Ingredients for 4:
1 lb beef with bone
1 lb smoked ribs
2 shallot onion
2 carrots
½ red sweet pepper
4 potatoes
1,5 lb sauerkraut
3 tomatoes (or ½ lb tomato sauce)
bay leaf, garlic, black pepper, salt, greens and sour cream on your taste

For dough (for 1 pot):
¼ frozen sweet butter, grated
Dough
1 egg
2 tbsp sour cream

Method:

Lightly salted cucumbers

Ingredients:

2 lb small unripe cucumbers
1 small garlic bulb
(optional) ½ hot pepper
5 tablespoon sea salt
(optional) 7-8 currant leaves
(optional) 7-8 cherry leaves
1 bunch of dill
1 ½ qt water

Method:

Wash cucumbers, and cut their ends.
Cut pepper and garlic to stripes.
To salt anything, use glass or glazed dish.
Divide all ingredients except water and salt by 3-5 parts (it depends on dish size).

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