Fruits

Ingredients for 4:

2 salt herring fillets
½ lb cold boiled beef
4 cold boiled potatoes
½ lb pickled beets
2 medium pickled cucumbers
1 large shallot onion
1 hard-boiled egg
½ cup whipped cream
Apple puree on taste
Fresh-ground black pepper on taste

Method:

Soak fillets in water, tea, or milk for 12 hours, then dry and cut into small cubes.
Cut beets, peeled potatoes, onions, cucumber, beef, and peeled egg into small cubes.

Ingredients:

200 g (1 cup) strong warm tea
8 full tbsp flour
3 tbsp vegetable oil (refined)
100 g (0.25 lb) sugar
3 tbsp thick fruit preserves, preferably sour
1 tsp baking soda + 1 tbsp vinegar, or baking powder
Spices: Vanilla, cinnamon, a little cardamom and ginger
Optional: Raisins, crushed nuts, dried fruits

Method:

Ingredients:

For dough:
1 cup sour cream
¾ cup sugar
2 – 2 ½ cup flour
½ tsp baking soda

For filling:
1 cup raisins
1 cup dried apricots
1 cup dried black prunes

For crème:
1 ¼ cup thick sour cream
¾ cup sugar
½ cup crushed nuts

Soak dried fruit for 2 hours or until mild, then dry and grate them separately.
Whip cold sour cream with sugar.
Mix flour and baking soda.

Ingredients for 4:

2 large red onions
2 green apples
3 hard-boiled eggs
2 tbsp grated cheese (on your choice)

Method:

Peel onions, slice into very thin rings. If onions are bitter, you can put in a colander and pour with boiling water. Peel and grate apples.
Peel and grate eggs.

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.

Ingredients:

2.5 lb trout
0.25 lb butter
2 eggs
0.25lb lemon
Salt and pepper on taste
For sauce:
0.5 lb pomegranate juice
1 garlic glove
Tarragon, coriander, and parsley on taste

Method:

Clean fish, remove skeleton (do not breake skin, if possible).
Hard boil eggs, cool, clean, and cut into small cubes.
Cut lemon into small cubes. Cut tarragon.
Mix lemon, eggs, tarragon, salt, and pepper.
Stuff the trout with this mix.

Ingredients for 4:

1 cup milk
1/3 lb rice
Salt
Vanilla
2 eggs
1 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp lemon juice
2 tbsp sugar powder
1 tbsp butter (or margarine)
1.25 lb apples

Method:

Bring milk to boil after adding salt.
Add rice to boiling milk, and boil for ½ hour on low heat.
Cool the ready rice.
Mix egg yolk, sugar and vanilla, and add to rice.
Whip the egg white, then it add to rice, and mix well.

Ingredients:

1 cup rice
1 tsp butter
½ lb boiled chicken breast
1 apple
1 tomato
3 tbsp sour cream
½ tsp lemon juice
Parsley
Salt on taste

Method:

Wash and dry the rice.
Boil salt water, add rice, and boil until ready with medium-low heating.
Cool.
Cut ready chicken breast into small cubes.
Peel apple and cut it into small cubes.
Cut tomato (with or without skin) into small cubes.
Mix rice, chicken, apple, and tomato.

Ingredients:

4 medium carrots
4 medium-size apples
2 tbsp honey
2 tbsp crushed nuts (walnuts, pine nuts, etc.)
3 tbsp raisins
Lemon juice on taste
Salt on taste

Method:

Soak raisins in hot water for 1 hour.
Peel and grate carrots, add lemon juice, honey, nuts, mix well, and set aside for 15 minutes.
Peel and cut (or grate) apples, sprinkle with lemon juice, add raisins.
Mix everything together, and serve immediately.

Ingredients for 4:

4 servings simple yeast blinis
¼ lb sugar
2/3 stick (75 g) butter or margarine
2 lb "Golden Delicious" apples, or other sweet apples
2 tbsp apple wine

Method:

Peel, clean, and cut apples.
Melt butter or margarine in a medium-heated deep skillet.
Add apples to skillet and sugar, mix, then cover with lid, and let simmer for 10 minutes.
After that, remove lid, and let simmer for 10 minutes more.
Add apple wine, and mix well.
Turn heating off.