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Ingredients:

Carrot tops
Tomatoes

Brine for 5 liters (about 1.3 gallons) of water:

20 tablespoons of sugar
5 tablespoons of salt
350g (about 1.5 cups) of vinegar

Place 4-5 carrot tops at the bottom of a jar, fill it with tomatoes, pour boiling water over them, cover with a lid, and let sit for 15 minutes.
Prepare the brine: Pour out the water from the jars, fill them with the hot brine, seal them up, and wrap them to keep warm.

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This design surpasses the wind turbines that the company built earlier in all parameters, particularly the MySE 16.0-242. The new development is expected to help China achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, according to MingYang.
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Potato Draniki with Chicken and Forest Mushrooms
Ingredients

6 potatoes
1.5 tablespoons of flour
1 egg
2 onions
400g of chicken fillet (about 0.9 lbs)
120g of forest mushrooms (about 4.2 oz)
Vegetable oil, to taste
50g of sour cream (about 1.8 oz)
1 cup of chicken broth
Salt and spices, to taste

Instructions
Peel the potatoes and grate them finely. Add salt to the grated potatoes. Peel one onion and chop it finely, then mix it with the potatoes. Beat in the egg and add the flour. Mix everythin…

Every autumn, millions of little orange suns emerge from the dark green foliage of small trees along the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus. These are the ripening citrus fruits. However, Adjara and Abkhazia still can’t supply enough mandarins and oranges to satisfy the entire country. And in regions like Moscow or Murmansk, you can’t plant a mandarin tree; it would perish at the first frost.
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A birch b…

Start by washing the small green cucumbers, trimming off the stems, and soaking them in cold water for 8 hours, changing the water twice during this time.
Next, place washed dill, horseradish, pepper pods, and garlic at the bottom of the jar, then pack the cucumbers on top.
Boil water and salt for 2 minutes, then add vinegar and bring it back to a boil.
Pour the brine over the cucumbers, filling the jar to about 1.5 cm below the rim, cover with lids, and place them in a pot for sterilization…