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Sour Cream Cake

This is very popular in Russia kind of cakes. You can change creams, and get different taste.

Ingredients:

For the dough:

7 eggs
2 cups flour
1.5 cups sugar
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking mix
Vanilla (a few drops)

For Sour-cream-based Cream:

1.2-1.8 lb sour cream (depends on thickness)
0.5 cups sugar
Vanilla

Chocolate cream:

1.5 cup whipping cream
1 lb grated chocolate

Grated Pie

Ingredients:

2-3 eggs
1 cup sugar
3 cup flour
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder (or 0.5 tsp baking soda)
1/4 lb (125 g) butter or margarine
1 tsp vanilla sugar
1 cup sour jam

Method:

Whip eggs; add sugar and vanilla by teaspoon continuing whipping.
When this mix starts to clump, add melted butter or margarine, continuing stirring.
Divide the dough into 2 parts: 2/3 and 1/3.

Family Apple Pie

Ingredients:

For dough:
1 cup milk
2 eggs
0.25 lb margarine
3 tbsp sugar
1 tsp salt
1 pack dry yeast
4 cups flour

For stuffing:
3-4 lb crispy apples
1.5 lb sugar

Method:

Remove apple seeds and around them, and cut apples into thin slices.
Put them in an enameled saucepan.

Deli Pate

Ingredients:

1 lb veal meat
0.5 lb pork
1.5 lb bacon
1.5 tsp salt
0.5 tsp each of: dried basilica, sage, thyme, and green pepper
2 slices white bread
1 egg white
2 medium shallot onions
0.5 lb whipping cream
0.5 lb veal liver
4 tbsp butter
2 tbsp brandy
2 tbsp rum
1 garlic
1/4 lb ham
0.5lb champignons
Grated cardamom and grated ginger on taste
2 tbsp cut parsley greens

Method:

Rice Zapekanka with Chicken Meat

Ingredients for 4:

2 cups boiled rice
0.5 lb grated cheese
1.5 cup boiled and grated chicken breast
350 ml milk
0.5 cup thinly cut red onions
2 eggs
0.25 cup thinly cut coriander
2 tbsp melted butter or margarine

Method:

Pre-heat an oven to 180 C. Grease a baking dish with butter or margarine.
Mix rice, cheese, chicken meat, onions, milk, and melted margarine together.
Whip the eggs, add to this mix, and stir well.

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.

Sprats Salad – Cocktail

Ingredients:

1 can sprats
1 small lemon
3 medium boiled potatoes
2 hardboiled eggs
¼ lb grated cheese
Mayonnaise on taste

Method:

Cut sprats into small pieces using a fork, place in a salad bowl.
Cut lemon into small, thin parts, and place them over the sprats’ layer.
Cover with a very thin mayonnaise layer.
Peel potatoes, and grate them, then place them over the Mayo.
Cover the potatoes with a very thin layer of mayonnaise.

Apple-Rice Zapekanka

Ingredients:

1 lb apples
1/3 lb rice
½ cup sugar
½ stick (or 4 tbsp) butter
3 eggs
2 tbsp flour
Vanilla on taste
3 tbsp vegetable oil

Method:

Boil (non-sticky) rice to readiness and cool.
Peel apples, de-seed, and cut into medium cubes (or into thin slices).
Grease a baking sheet with vegetable oil, place the apples onto the sheet, sprinkle with 2 tbsp sugar.
Pre-heat an oven to 390º F (200º C), and place the sheet in the oven.

Chicken Sticks

Ingredients:

1 chicken breast
1 tbsp sour cream
0.5 tsp salt
Garlic, ground pepper (optional)
5 tbsp flour
7 tbsp vegetable oil

Method:

Cut breast (de-boned and de-skinned) crosswise into 5-6 parts, place them onto a bowl, add salt, pepper, garlic, sour cream, stir, and set aside for 10 minutes.
Pour flour in a wide flat dish.
Pre-heat a skillet with vegetable oil until oil is boiling.
Roll every chicken piece in the flour, and put in the skillet.

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