Ingredients:

12 campari tomatoes (or 1 lb cherry ones)
3 bay leaves
5 peppercorns
10 black peppers
2 tbsp salt
2 tbsp sugar
2 ml 70% vinegar (same as 46 ml 3%, 24 ml 6%, or 16 ml 9% vinegar)
Water

Method:

Prepare a standard 1/4 gallon glass can (wash and dry).

Wash the tomatoes, place in a deep bowl, and pour boiling water over them for about 30 seconds, drain, and pour cold water over the tomatoes.

Ingredients:

2 cups peeled and fried sunflower seeds
1.5 cup flour
0.5 cup sugar
0.25 cup vegetable oil (sunflower oil preferably)
0.5 cup water

Method:

Grate sunflower seeds.

Fry flour on a dry skillet, stirring thoroughly until the flour gains a cream color.

Then, mix flour and grated seeds well, and grate them together once more.

Ingredients:

1 pack any small-size pasta
1 medium eggplant
1 red onion
1 medium red sweet pepper
1 lemon
0.5 lb black olives cut in quarters
3 tbsp fresh basilica

Method:

Cook pasta as recommended on the pack.
Drain, and set aside.

Cut eggplant, peeled pepper, and onions into small cubes.

Pre-heat olive oil on a skillet, add the vegetables, and stir-fry for about 7 minutes, then add lemon peels and squeezed lemon juice.

Ingredients:

4-5 boiled potatoes
½ lb boiled beef (de-boned, without fat)
2 hard-boiled eggs
1 medium apple
2 large salt cucumbers
1 small salt herring (or 4-5 large anchovies)

For dressing:

0.5 cup sour cream
1 tsp ground horseradish
2 tbsp vinegar
1 tsp mustard
2 tbsp dill and parsley greens, thinly cut

Method:

Soak the herring and anchovies if necessary (if they are too salted or too hot).

Ingredients:

4 cup buckwheat flour
1 pack yeasts
1.5 lb (600 g) lukewarm water
1 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
1 cup vegetable oil for cooking

Method:

Grate the buckwheat flour in a coffee grinder, and sift.

Dissolve the yeasts in warm water, and add 1.5 cup flour.
Mix well, cover with a fabric, and let sit at room temperature for about 1 hour.

Ingredients:

2 - 3 young beets
4 cups water
4 - 5 mushrooms
2 potatoes
2 – 3 cucumbers
Green onions
Dill
1.5 L Kvas
Ground horseradish
Salt, pepper, sugar
Porcini mushrooms, butter mushrooms (maslyata) or orange caps work the best

Method:

Cut the mushrooms into thin pieces, boil to readiness.

Cut beets into small pieces and boil them, add them into the mushroom broth (without the beet broth).

Ingredients:

1 small bottle mayonnaise
3 eggs
100g cheese
3 apples
1 large white onion

Note:
Adjust the amount of mayonnaise covering each layer to your own taste.

Method:

Boil the eggs.

While the eggs boil, cut the onion into small pieces, put into a saucepan, and cover with boiling water for a little bit.

Drain the onion cubes, put onto a plate as a layer and dab with mayonnaise.

Ingredients:

500 g (1 1/8 lb) flour
0.5 L (1/8 gallon) warm water
1 cup vegetable oil
Salt and pepper on taste

Fillings of your choosing may be, but aren’t limited to:

1. Ground, boiled, or fried mushrooms with fried onions
2. Simmered sauerkraut with fried onions
3. Fried ground carrots with fried onions
(Fried onions are a necessity for this to be Lent Chebureck)

Method:

Ingredients for 2:

350 g Beet broth
100 g Beets
20 g Carrots
50 g Cucumbers
25 g Green Onions
1 Egg
40g Sour Cream
5g Sugar
5g 3% vinegar
Greens
It is best to prepare Cold Borsch when young beets with stalks are available, but it can be done with any young beets

Method:

Cut the stalks off the beets, and set them aside.

Wash the beets again, and boil them to readiness (young beets boil quickly).
Peel the beets, and grind them.

Ingredients:

2 lb sauerkraut
1 carrot
2 onions
1 cup dry mushrooms
1 parsley root (or some parsley greens stalks)
10 peppercorns
1 tbsp all-purpose flour
3-4 tbsp vegetable oil
Sugar and salt on taste

Method:

Soak the mushrooms for 2-3 hours.

Drain sauerkraut, cut into small cubes.

Peel carrots and onions, and cut into small cubes, or grate them.