Cooking Russian Food

Badger_Lady

I was in Russia last week and had these:
http://www.ifood.tv/recipe/deep-fried-pasties

(although I'm vegetarian so mine were filled with mushrooms and cabbage)

Any

lostinrates wrote: »

it sounds delicious though...where is it typically from, and do you have a recipe you can share? I'm always on the look out for honey cake recipes!

It is centuries old recipe and due to the central/eastern Europe mix of power (ie for example when Russia ruled Ukrain, Czech etc) it is basicaly difficult to tell where it actually came from. Each of these countries lay their claim to it. So it is not typicaly Russian cake, however it is definitely typicaly eastern european cake.
If you presented honey cake to eastern european and asked them to guess the country each would have different reply:D

I will post up my recipe when I get to it at home.

Any

SEASHELL wrote: »

just found this lostinrates, looks yum
http://www.grouprecipes.com/98017/medovnik--russian-honey-cake.html

It is delicious... Trust me!!
The recipe looks O.K., but trust me - it does NOT take 10 mins:rotfl::rotfl:

SEASHELL

Badger_Lady wrote: »

I was in Russia last week and had these:
http://www.ifood.tv/recipe/deep-fried-pasties

(although I'm vegetarian so mine were filled with mushrooms and cabbage)

Thats tea for tomorrow sorted :j

SEASHELL

Any wrote: »

It is centuries old recipe and due to the central/eastern Europe mix of power (ie for example when Russia ruled Ukrain, Czech etc) it is basicaly difficult to tell where it actually came from. Each of these countries lay their claim to it. So it is not typicaly Russian cake, however it is definitely typicaly eastern european cake.
If you presented honey cake to eastern european and asked them to guess the country each would have different reply:D

I will post up my recipe when I get to it at home.

Will look forward to your recipe later :beer:

sophistica

I haven't made this but what about an Russian apple cake. Apples are in season at the moment and this recipe only uses 3 as I recall and the rest of the ingredients are store cupboard. Kids like cake.

http://mollysrecipes.blogspot.com/2008/01/russian-apple-cake.html

Living_proof

Blinis? Pancakes/crepes made from buckwheat flour. Lemon squeezy and serve with smoked salmon and sour cream?

SEASHELL

Living_proof wrote: »

Blinis? Pancakes/crepes made from buckwheat flour. Lemon squeezy and serve with smoked salmon and sour cream?

The teacher has blinis organised, apparently having them with caviar :eek::eek::eek:

Any

SEASHELL wrote: »

The teacher has blinis organised, apparently having them with caviar :eek::eek::eek:

Yuk, I wonder how will the kids take to caviar!! :eek:

Any

OK. my honey cake recipe.

Cake base:
100 gr butter
150 gr sugar
5 spoons of honey
2 spoons of semi skinned milk
1 egg
1 tea spoon of baking soda
450 gr flour (plain)

Take all ingrediences apart from the flour and mix them together in a bowl sat in water bath (larger saucepan cooking on a hob full of water) and whisk it - until it goes a bit darker and gets foam on top. The consistency should be a little thinner then mayo. Then take it off and start slowly adding flour, stirring constantly. Then put your hands in and work it into nice smooth ball of brown dough of plasticine.
Separate into 4 parts.
On baking sheet roll out a thin pancake roughly 20cm from each and bake in 180C for few minutes until nice and golden.
Then cut out nice ring out of each. Keep the cut offs, as you will need them for decoration.

Cream
200 ml of semmi skimmed milk
3 heaped spoons of flour
200 gr butter
150 gr of sugar
1 egg yolk

Mix milk with flour and bring to boil. Stir constantly. Take it off the hob and while constantly stirring, wait until it cools down to room temperature. Add butter, egg yolk and sugar (must also be room temperature).

Glue the pancakes together with the cream and also spread the cream all over.
Grate the cut offs from the pancake and decorate the cake all over with it (it will stick to the cream). I add wallnuts or hazelnuts to my mix.
Put into the fridge.

You will notice the pancakes are quite hard once cooked. They will soften as they will take moisture from the cream, so it is recommended to make it day in advance.