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Ingredients:

1 l water (or 0.25 g)
2 tbsp dried mushrooms
1 lb fresh mushrooms
1 lb green cabbage
1 medium shallot onion
1 tbsp grated parsley root
1 tbsp all-purpose flour
6 black peppers
2 bay leaves
2 tbsp cut parsley and dill greens

Method:

Ingredients:

1 cabbage head
5 carrots
3 garlic cloves
1 tbsp salt
Greens on taste

Method:

Ingredients:

Tomatoes
3 cups water
4 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
4-5 ml 70% vinegar
4 bay leaves
12 black peppers
5 spicy peppers
1 small hot pepper

Method:

Put salt, sugar, all the peppers, and bay leaves, in a wide saucepan salt, sugar, all the peppers, and bay leaves, and pour water and vinegar.
Mix and bring to boil.
Stick tomatoes through the fruit-stem with a thin sharp knife.

Ingredients:

0.5 lb smoked trout fillet
0.5 lb smoked steelhead fillet
0.5 lb whipped cream
1 can (50 g) red caviar

Method:

Cut trout fillet, put in a blender, and blend.
Take out of blender, put in a dish, and mix with 0.25 lb whipped cream.
Cut steelhead fillet, put in a blender, and blend.
Take off from blender, put in a dish, and mix with 0.25 lb whipped cream.
Cover the bottom of a ceramic form with foil. Put trout puree in the form.

Ingredients for 4:

0.75 lb fish
0.5 lb porcini or other mushrooms
2 tbsp butter
1 cup sour cream
3 eggs
Salt and pepper on taste

Method:

Wash mushrooms (or wipe with wet cloth).
Cut into julienne cuts.
Wash fillets. Cut into small pieces.
Pre-heat skillet with butter and cook mushrooms until ready (for about 10 minutes).
Add salt and fillet cuts to mushrooms, mix. Put the mix in julienne dishes.

Ingredients:

1 lb small turnip
1 large shallot onion
2-3 tbsp red wine (Port or Cherry)
1 tbsp vegetable oil
Salt, pepper, nutmeg on taste

Method:
Peel onion and cut into small cubes.
Fry with vegetable oil until gold color.
Peel turnip, cut into 4 parts, and boil over boiling water until ready.
Mix onions, turnip, and wine, and blend until even consistency.

Ingredients:

1 cup flour
1/3 cup boiled vegetables (carrots, beets, pumpkin, etc.)
Sparkling mineral water (or water with baking soda)

Method:

Mix all ingredients, knead dough. Shape into a round bread.
Sprinkle the baking sheet with 1 tbsp flour.
Place bread in an oven pre-heated to 390-400º F and bake for about 35 minutes.

Note:

You can use grated and pressed vegetables instead of boiled ones.

Ingredients:

2.5 lb tvorog
3 eggs
0.5 lb dried raisins
Sugar
Vanilla
1/8 lb breadcrumbs
1 tbsp butter
3 tbsp flour
Strawberry jam (or other jam)
4 tbsp condensed sweet milk (optional)

Method:

Knead dough with tvorog, sugar, vanilla, and 2 eggs.
Add flour, and knead the dough once more, until even consistency.
Soak raisins in hot water for 1 hour.
Add raisins to dough, mix.
Grease the baking form with butter.

The name was given because this layered salad, after decorating, looks like an ancient "boyarin" cup. "Boyarin" means a most powerful duke or other highest noble, who decided, together with the Russian Tsar, most important political and economical tasks.
Traditionally, they sat in the a "Duma", the place where they congregated at and discoursed with the Tsar.

Ingredients for 4:

2 lb potatoes
1 lb boiled beef or chicken fillet
2-3 large shallot onions
1 can (about 1 lb) salt mushrooms
5 hard-boiled eggs

Ingredients:

1 medium cabbage
4 medium carrots
1 garlic
1 medium beet
For brine:
0.25 gallon water (or 1 liter)
1 cup sugar
1 cup 9% vinegar
0.5 cup vegetable oil
2 tbsp salt

Method:

Slice cabbage into thin stripes (size of "angel hairs")
Peel and grate all other vegetables, and mix them with cabbage.
Mix well.
Put in a glass or enameled dish. Press it.
Mix all ingredients for brine in an enameled saucepan, and bring to boil.