Pastry

Quick Pie

Ingredients:

1 cup flour
1 cup oatmeal or muesli
1 cup yogurt or kefir
2 eggs
0.5 cup sugar
Pinch of soda
3 tbsp vegetable oil
Raisins, lemon, walnuts – on taste

Method:

Pre-heat an oven to 400 – 420 F.

Make dough with all the ingredients.

Pour the dough into a baking shape.

Bake for about 25 minutes.

Cool, and decorate on taste.
Serve with tea or coffee.

Puff Pastry with Black Currant

Ingredients:

0.5 lb puff pastry dough
1/4 lb sugar (1 cup)
1 cup fresh or frozen black currant (or blueberries)
1 egg
3 tbsp flour

Method:

Mix the black currant with sugar (try do not press and keep berries whole).

Roll the dough in a long stripe.

Sprinkle the dough with the flour.

Pre-heat an oven to 200 c (400 F).

Place a thin layer of berries with sugar on dough on middle, evenly.

Roll dough tightly.

Cheese Roll

Ingredients:

1 pack puff pastry (500 g)

3/4 lb ground hard cheese

1 bunch Italian Parsley

1 bunch dill

Other greens, like Basilicas(optional)

Method:

Defrost the dough.

Cut the greens in small pieces.

Mix greens and cheese.

Cover the dough layer (1/4 inch thickness) with this mix, and roll tightly along.

Cut the roll in 2-inch parts.

Pre-heat an oven to 180 C (400 F).

Cheese Pancakes with Walnuts and Dried Figs

Ingredients:

1 lb tvorog (or dry small curd farmers’ cheese, or ricotta)
0.5 cup flour
4 eggs
3 tbsp sugar
1/4 lb dried figs (or raisins)
2/3 cup peeled ground walnuts
2/3 cup sour cream
4 tbsp butter or margarine
Salt on taste

Method:

Blend tvorog until it is of an even consistency.
Soak dried figs for 1 hour, then drain, and cut them into small pieces.

Separate the egg yolks and egg whites.

Lent Chebureck

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:

Tatiana Cake

Ingredients:

0.5 lb raisins
4 eggs
0.5 cup flour
1 pack vanilla sugar or vanilla on taste
1.5 tsp baking mix
0.2 tsp baking soda
2/3 cup flour
0.25 lb peeled and crushed walnuts

For the cream:

1 lb non-skim sour cream
0.5 cup sugar

Method:

Wash raisins, and soak for about 10 minutes in hot water, then drain.

Blend raisins, eggs, sugar, and vanilla together, until an even consistency.

Vatrushka

Ingredients:

For the dough:

100g sugar
1 cup sour cream
2 eggs
Half a teaspoon baking soda with equal part vinegar
1 cup flour
2 tbsp butter

For the filling:

0.5 kg tvorog (or 1 lb dry farmer’s cheese or Greek-style yogurt)
3 eggs
100g or 0.25 lb sugar
1 tbsp cream of wheat

For the sprinkles on top:

2 tbsp sugar powder or any icing

Method:

Closed Prune Tyrol Pie

The story goes that the Austro-Hungarian Emperor France-Josef got lost during a hunt in the Tyrol Mountains, and found small country house where the housewife fed him with her traditional family-recipe pie.

It was so delicious that the Emperor ordered this kind of pie be named as “Tyrol”, and ordered his chefs to cook it on occasion. One of these chefs was the former housewife from the Tyrol Mountains.
Since that time, these recipes become wide-spread and well-known.

Ingredients:

¼ lb mild butter
2 eggs

Open Fruit Tyrol Pie

Ingredients:

1/3 lb melted butter (or ghee)
1/3 lb sugar powder
3 eggs
1/2 cup kefir (125 g) or buttermilk
1 tsp baking soda
1 lb flour
Fruit, fresh or canned, on your taste
Spices: gloves and cardamom on your taste

Method:

Mix the kefir and baking soda together.

Stir the butter and sugar powder until it turns white, then add the eggs and kefir mixed with baking soda.

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