What you need · 17 recipes
Mincer
Apricot and Orange Jam
Halved apricots with minced oranges, cooked with sugar.
Pickles & Preserves
Aubergine in Pepper and Onion Marinade
Aubergines cooked in a marinade of minced onion, garlic and sweet pepper, then sterilised.
Pickles & Preserves
Aubergine in Pepper Sauce
Aubergine rings cooked in a sauce of minced red and hot peppers with garlic.
Pickles & Preserves
Cheese Roll with Mushrooms and Chicken
A cheese and egg sheet filled with fried mushrooms and chicken, rolled up and finished in the oven.
Salads & Starters
Forshmak (Herring Pâté)
A spread of herring, apple, onion and white bread put through a mincer.
Salads & Starters
Fried Aubergine with Garlic and Parsley
Fried aubergine rings with garlic and salt, layered with parsley and covered in a sweet vinegar syrup.
Pickles & Preserves
Home-Made Ketchup with Apples
Ketchup of tomatoes, apples and onion with spices, pushed through a sieve and sealed in jars.
Pickles & Preserves
Lecho
Sweet peppers in a tomato marinade, cooked and rolled into jars for winter. A big batch — about 13 litres.
Pickles & Preserves
Lemon Pie (Limonnik)
A pie filled with lemons put through a mincer with sugar.
Pies, Buns & Pancakes
Liver Cake
Thin liver pancakes layered with garlic mayonnaise or fried onion.
Salads & Starters
Meat and Cheese Patties
Minced meat with grated cheese, frozen in a log, sliced and fried in flour and egg.
Meat, Fish & Mains
Spicy Stuffed Green Tomatoes
Green tomatoes stuffed with minced garlic, pepper and parsley, under plastic lids in the cellar.
Pickles & Preserves
Stuffed Pike
Pike stuffed with its own flesh, onion, carrot, bread and butter, stewed on rings of carrot and beetroot.
Meat, Fish & Mains
The School Cook's Layered Aubergine
Boiled aubergine halves with garlic and chilli, layered with onion and parsley and covered with marinade.
Pickles & Preserves
Tkemali Plum Sauce
A plum sauce with garlic, cooked and sealed in jars for winter.
Pickles & Preserves
Uncooked Berry and Orange Jam (“Live Jam”)
A raw jam of currants, raspberries and oranges minced with sugar. Kept in the cold.
Pickles & Preserves
Walnut Sauce with Four Variations
A thick sauce of walnuts with onion, carrot and spices. Mushrooms, cheese, aubergine or pickled cucumber are added to the base.
Salads & Starters