Students from grade 6 school #664, Moscow
We looked through your collection of recipes and did not find any
Russian one. So we made up our minds to "treat" you to a Russian dinner.
If you look at the map you can see that ours is a northern country. We need a lot of
calories to live in rather severe climate. So be ready that Russian dishes are nourishing
and, from you point of view, fattening.
We can start with a salad. A salad is not an originally Russian dish. Prior to the 16th
century there were no salads here. But in the period of the reign of Peter the Great a lot
of foreign things poured into Russia. If we can quote him "we hacked a window into
Europe". For instance, it was he who brought potato here. And in the houses of rich
people they started making different salads.
The first one is called in Russia after the name of a French cook who made it first
here. But we read that in other countries they call it "Russian salad". Though
the second salad is called "Vinegret" (from
"vinegar") we do not add now any vinegar to it.
OLIVIER SALAD
Ingredients for 6 persons: a piece of chicken or other poultry (about 200 g),
2 pickled cucumbers, an apple, 3 eggs, half a tin of peas, 6 potatoes, 3 carrots, 2
onions, mayonnaise, grated pepper.
Directions:
Boil potatoes, carrots. Boil eggs. Peel cucumbers and apple. Cut the vegetables,
cucumbers, apple, eggs, onions and meat into cubes. Add peas. Mix everything, add some
salt, season with mayonnaise and grated pepper.
Note: Here in Russia we have pickled cucumbers that are made without adding vinegar
but specially salted water and spices.
Donated by Alexander Germanovich
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Modified 01 Feb 2001
