Fruits

Ingredients:

1 lb Honeydew Melon
1 lb Red or Black seedless grapes
2 cups Romaine Lettuce
0.5 cup whipping cream
0.5 cup ground bitter chocolate
3 tbsp sugar

Method:

Cut odd balls from Honeydew using teaspoons.

Wash the grapes, and drain. Remove sticks.

Cover the salad large flat dish with Lettuce cut leaves.

Stir Honeydew balls and grapes, put on the salad leaves.

Whip the whipping cream with sugar; cover the Honeydew-grapes mix.

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.

Other name: Tsar’s Varenye

Ingredients:

2 lb fresh gooseberries
4 large oranges
2 lb sugar

Method:

Wash the oranges, remove their ends and seeds (do not peel!).

Remove the gooseberries ends, and wash and drain.

Grate gooseberries? And place in a glass or enameled saucepan.

Grate oranges, and mix with sugar and with gooseberries.

Bring to boil with small heating, and boil for about 10 minutes, stirring some times.

Ingredients:

2 lb zucchini
3 large lemons
2 lb sugar

Method:

Wash and peel zucchini, remove seeds if necessary. Cut into 0.5-inch size cubes.

Wash the lemons, remove seeds, and grate.

Mix together zucchini, lemons, and sugar, and bring to boil with medium heating.

Boil for about 10 minutes, until zucchini’s pieces turn transparent, then pour in cans, and roll with lids.

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.

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:

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:

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.

Ingredients for 2:

¼ lb boiled, baked or canned tuna, or other sea fish
¼ lb hard cheese
¼ lb apple
2 tbsp Mayonnaise
1 tbsp orange juice
1 tsp mustard
1 tbsp whipping cream
1 tomato
1 cucumber
1 lemon
Green salad leaves, black olives, and greens for decoration

Method:

Cut the tuna and cheese into small cubes.

Cut the apples into thin strips, or grate.

Blend together Mayo, whipping cream, orange juice, and mustard.

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.