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“Black Prince” Cake
A plain and a chocolate layer, broken up and mixed with a sour cream and walnut cream, piled up under a glaze.
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“Jelly” Cake
Cubes of sponge and coloured jelly set in a sour cream and gelatine cream.
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“Monastery Hut” Cake
Cherry-filled tubes of sour cream pastry with a sour cream cream.
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“Prague” Sponge with Prunes and Nuts
A chocolate sponge filled with its own crumb mixed with sour cream, prunes and nuts.
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“Tropicanka” Cake
Lattice layers of choux pastry, a cooked cream with butter, fruit and jelly.
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Apple or Plum Pour-Over Pie
Apples or plums on melted butter, covered with a simple six-spoon batter.
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Apple Pie
A thick layer of apples under a batter of eggs, flour, sugar and sour cream, baked in a frying pan.
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Apple Strudel
A roll of thinly stretched dough with apples.
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Baked Apples in Pastry
Halves of small apples with sugar and cinnamon, baked in a sour cream pastry.
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Brined and Roasted Pork Belly
Pork belly kept 3–4 days in a spiced brine, studded with garlic and roasted in a bag.
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Carrot Cake
Three layers with grated carrot, filled with sour cream whipped with sugar.
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Cheese Roll with Mushrooms and Chicken
A cheese and egg sheet filled with fried mushrooms and chicken, rolled up and finished in the oven.
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Chicken Roasted on a Jar
A whole chicken with garlic and mayonnaise, roasted upright on a jar of water.
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Choux Pastries
Choux buns filled with a butter cream made on a milk pudding, the tops dipped in chocolate glaze.
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Cottage Cheese “Goose Feet” Cookies
Cottage cheese cookies: rounds of dough folded into quarters and rolled in sugar.
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Dough for Chebureki and Lasagna
One margarine dough, for chebureki with minced meat and for a home-made four-layer lasagna.
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Easter Platter with Baked Cottage Cheese and Horseradish
A big platter of baked cottage cheese, eggs, sliced meats and grated horseradish.
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Egg Roll with Cheese and Garlic
An egg sheet baked with mayonnaise, filled with processed cheese and garlic and rolled up.
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Flan (Crème Caramel)
Egg custard on milk under caramel, baked in a cast-iron pot in a water bath or cooked in a pressure cooker.
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French-Style Baked Meat
Pieces of meat baked under a layer of onion, cheese and mayonnaise.
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Grated Jam Pie
A shortcrust pie with jam: half the dough is the base, the other half is grated over the top.
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Homestyle Pizza
Home-made pizza on a yeast dough with margarine: tomato sauce, sausage or meat, onion, egg, cheese and mayonnaise.
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Honey Cake (Medovik)
Layered honey cake with sour cream filling; the dough is made over hot water.
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Lemon Pie (Limonnik)
A pie filled with lemons put through a mincer with sugar.
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Mum's Apple Pie with Cottage Cheese
A pie on a cottage cheese and sour cream dough, with apples inside and whipped egg whites on top.
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Napoleon Cake
Five thin layers of sour cream pastry with a cooked custard cream, topped with crumbs from a sixth.
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Onion and Cheese Pie
A savoury pie on a sour cream dough, filled with softened onion, eggs and processed cheese.
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Oven-Baked Aubergine with Tomatoes
Aubergines with tomatoes, onion and garlic, an hour and a half in the oven, then into jars.
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Paska (Easter Bread)
Sweet yeast Easter bread with raisins.
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Poppy Seed Buns
Yeast pinwheel buns filled with poppy seeds ground with sugar.
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Prague Cake
A chocolate cake made with condensed milk, filled with a cream of cooked custard and butter with cocoa.
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Prune Cookies in Chocolate Glaze
Crescents of a dough made with boiled egg yolks, filled with prunes, glazed with chocolate and rolled in lemon wafer crumbs.
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Puff Pastry Envelopes with Herring and Cod
Envelopes of beer puff pastry filled with herring, fresh cod and fried onion.
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Roast Duck with Apples
Duck rubbed with salt, sugar, paprika and chilli and roasted on apples.
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Roasted Aubergine Dip
Roasted aubergines blended with garlic and mayonnaise, rather like hummus.
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Royal Cake
Four sour cream layers, with poppy seeds, walnuts, raisins and prunes, filled with a sour cream cream.
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Soft Yeast Buns
Soft buns made with water and sunflower oil, cut out with a glass.
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Sponge Cake with Orange Curd Cream
A sponge soaked in brandy and orange juice, under a cottage cheese cream with banana and orange, topped with fruit and jelly.
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Sponge Roll with Cream and Fruit
A sponge roll soaked in syrup and filled with butter cream and finely chopped fruit.
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Starch Shortbread (Korzhiki)
Crumbly shortbread rounds made with starch, butter and sour cream.
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Stuffed Mushroom Caps
Fried mushroom caps filled with their stalks, onion, cheese and sour cream.
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Yeast Crescent Rolls (Rogaliki)
Yeast crescents made with margarine, filled with cherries, jam, apple or cottage cheese and dipped in egg and sugar.
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Yeast Pirozhki
Small pies on a yeast dough.
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Zebra Cake
A plain and a chocolate batter made with mayonnaise and sour cream, poured into the pan in turns to make stripes.
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