Bukovina Salad
Boil and peel the potatoes and carrots, then cut them into cubes. Add chopped sausage, canned sweet pepper strips, green onions, and green peas. Mix everything together, season with salt, and dress with mayonnaise.
Ingredients: 300g potatoes, 200g sweet peppers, 110g carrots, 250g smoked sausage, 200g green peas, 50g green onions.
Appetizing Snacks
Grate cheese and mix it with chopped eggs, then dress with mayonnaise. Garnish with egg slices and herbs.
Herring
Finely chop the herring fillet, onion, apples, and white bread soaked in water or milk. Add oil or softened butter, sugar, and vinegar. Mix everything well.
Ingredients: 100g herring, 10g bread, 10g milk, 1 onion, 1 apple, 1 teaspoon oil or butter, vinegar, sugar.
Potato Kuleshik
Peel, wash, and cut the potatoes, then mix them with sautéed onions cut into rings. Pour in 4 cups of water, season with salt, and boil for 15–20 minutes. Strain the mixture through a sieve, add hot milk, and bring it to a boil.
To serve, enrich the kuleshik with butter and egg yolks mixed with hot milk.
For 800g of potatoes: 4 cups of milk, 3 tablespoons of butter, 1 leek stalk, salt to taste.
For dressing: 2 egg yolks, 3/4 cup of milk.
Flotsky Borscht
Boil the bacon in prepared bone broth. Cut the beets into pieces and sauté them in a small amount of broth with fat, adding vinegar. Lightly sauté carrots, parsley root, and onion, then add tomato puree.
In the strained hot broth, add cabbage and cook for 15 minutes. Then add the sautéed roots, onion, and potatoes, and cook for another 15 minutes. Before finishing, add the sautéed beets and flour sautéed in oil and diluted with broth, then season with salt, sugar, and vinegar. Just before serving, pour in the strained and warmed beet broth.
For 300g of bacon: 400g beets, 250g cabbage, 200g potatoes, 100g carrots, 20g parsley, 1 onion, 2 tablespoons of fat, 3 tablespoons of tomato puree, 1 teaspoon of flour, 1 tablespoon of vinegar, 4 tablespoons of sour cream, 1/2 teaspoon of sugar, spices, salt to taste, herbs.
Cod Boiled in Milk
Wash the cod fillet, cut it into pieces, place the pieces in a pot, cover with cold water, and bring to a boil. Drain the water, cover the fish again with cold water, and bring to a boil a second time. Drain the water, sprinkle the fish with chopped onion, add salt, pepper, and a bay leaf, cover with hot milk, and cook until done.
Serve the cod with boiled potatoes.
For 500g of cod: 2 cups of milk, 1 onion, 1 bay leaf, 6 peppercorns, salt to taste, 1.5kg potatoes, 2 tablespoons of butter.
Beef Baked with Onion
Boil the beef, adding carrots, parsley root, and half an onion cut into thin slices. Place the meat in a saucepan or pot and sprinkle with pepper.
Peel and slice the remaining onions into strips, cover them with sour cream, and sauté until done. Season with butter and salt, place the onion mixture over the prepared meat, sprinkle with breadcrumbs, drizzle with oil, and bake until golden.
Strain the broth and use it for preparing the first course.
Serve the beef with boiled potatoes, garnished with finely chopped parsley.
For 1kg of beef: 1 carrot, 1 parsley root, 3 onions, 1.5 cups of sour cream, 1 tablespoon of breadcrumbs, 2 tablespoons of butter, 1kg potatoes, salt, pepper to taste, herbs.
Cherkasskie Sausages
Pass the beef through a meat grinder twice, season with salt and pepper, add lightly fried onions, and mix in milk or water. Mix well, form into sausages, and fry until cooked. Then cover the sausages with a sour cream–tomato sauce and bring to a boil.
Serve the sausages with fried potatoes.
For 500g of beef: 2 onions, 2 tablespoons of fat, 1.5 cups of sour cream–tomato sauce, salt, pepper to taste.
Snowballs in Milk Sauce
Whip egg whites into a thick foam, mix them with one-third of the powdered sugar specified in the recipe, and drop spoonfuls into boiling milk. Cook, turning them occasionally, for 4–5 minutes until set. Remove the snowballs from the milk with a slotted spoon and place them in a prepared dish.
Preparing the Sauce. Beat the yolks with the remaining powdered sugar and vanilla, pour in the milk used to cook the snowballs, place the mixture on the stove, heat to 80°C (176°F), then cool.
For 4 cups of milk: 8 eggs, 120g powdered sugar, vanilla to taste.
