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Candies

Ingredients:

¼ lb butter
¼ lb margarine
1 cup sugar
2 tbsp honey
4 tsp cacao
4 cup corn or rolled oats
4 tbsp ground walnuts
1 tbsp soaked raisins

Method:

Mix butter, margarine, sugar, honey, and cacao together; bring to boil with low heating.

Boil for about 2 minutes, then mix with flakes, walnuts, and raisins.
Stir well.

Cover any flat dish with a baking waxing paper.
Using 2 teaspoons, divide the mix into 1-inch-size pieces.

Vienna Dough

Ingredients:

3 eggs
1 cup sugar
0.5 l hot milk
0.5 yeast stick (or ½ pack of yeasts)
1 tsp salt
5 tbsp vegetable oil
2+ lb all-purpose flour

Method:

Blend eggs with sugar, add hot milk, and mix well.

Add yeasts, salt, and vegetable oil, to the warm mix and then add flour cupful at a time.

Knead well (until it does not stick to hands).

“Sand dough”

Ingredients:

2.5 cup flour
300 g (2/3 lb) butter or margarine
3 egg yolks
1 egg
1 cup sugar
0.5 tsp baking soda
Salt on taste
Add-ons (ground nuts, dry fruits) on taste

Method:

Mix flour and baking soda.

Blend butter with sugar until the sugar dissolves, add egg yolks one by one and stir them well until an even consistency is reached.

Stir in salt.

Then, pour this mix into the flour, and make dough.

Home-Made Hard Cheese

Ingredients for 1 lb cheese:

2 l pasteurized milk
0.5 l sour milk
4 eggs
1 tsp salt, or less
Fillings:
Red sweet pepper
Dill

Method:

Heat 0.5 l milk to warm (about 45 C), add 1 tbsp kefir, or sour cream, or yogurt, and let sit in a room temperature for 24 hours.
(Note: You can use 0.5 l kefir instead.)

Whip eggs and sour milk together until an even consistency of sour cream.
Bring 2 l milk to boil, and turn heating to very low.

Fruit Marmalade

Ingredients:

2 lb fruits
1 lb sugar

Method:

Boil fruit with ½ cup water for about 10-15 minutes, then puree using a blender.
Boil the puree with low heating (avoid burning!) stirring sometimes and adding sugar by tablespoons.

After that, stir all the time until the mix stops sticking.
Cover a large flat dish with wax paper and lightly grease with butter. Spread the marmalade evenly on top. Allow to dry and cut.

Boiled Sugar

Ingredients:

2 lb sugar
0.5 cup water, or milk, or whipping cream
1 orange

Method:

Peel the orange, wash the peels, remove the white parts, and cut the peels into small cubes.
Place a deep skillet on medium heating, pour 0.25 cup of water or milk, or whipping cream in it, pour the sugar over this, and bring to boil, mixing a few times.
The sugar will get a crumbly consistency.

Halvah from sunflower seeds

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 changes color to creamy.
Then, mix flour and grated seeds well, and grate them together once more.

Tsar’s Varenie

"Varenie" means a fruit or berries preserve.

Ingredients:

2 lb fresh figs
2 lb sugar
2 cups grape juice
0.5 lb peeled walnuts
2 tsp lemon juice
1 tbsp rum (optional, for better keeping)

Method:

Wash and drain figs, remove the ends, and place ¼ peeled walnut in the middle of every fig.
Mix grape juice and sugar, and bring to boil. Remove the foam.
Put the stuffed figs into this syrup, then put walnuts all over it, add lemon juice and rum.

Smoked Salmon Mousse

Ingredients:

1 lb smoked salmon fillets
0.25 lb butter spread
1 tbsp lemon juice
0.5 Qt (500 g) heavy whipping cream
White pepper on taste

Method:

Blend butter spread, lemon juice, and salmon together.
Continuing blending, add half of the whipping cream by tablespoon.
Add pepper, blend for 1 minute, and place into a refrigerator for about 20 minutes.
Whip the other half of the whipping cream to a strong peaks consistency, and blend with salmon-lemon-whipped cream mix.

Vegetable pancakes – common recipe

Ingredients:

1 lb vegetables (boiled in milk pumpkin, carrot, any cabbage, fresh or boiled potatoes)
2 eggs
½ cup buttermilk
1 tsp sugar (or more, for sweet pancakes)
1 tsp salt
Flour, to get thick sour cream dough’s consistency
Pinch of baking soda
4-5 tbsp vegetable oil

Method:

Make vegetable puree, or grate fresh vegetables.
Add eggs, salt, sugar, soda, and buttermilk, mix well.
Add flour, and make dough with a thick sour cream consistency.

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