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Monday, January 2, 2012

A recipe even Anne could love

While searching last week for something to do with the leftover post-latkes sour cream in my fridge, I stumbled across this "Very tasty sauce from dried boletus mushrooms," from Elena Molokhovets' wonderful 19th century guide for young Russian housewives, Classic Russian Cooking:
  • Wash 18-24 dried mushrooms and boil until almost cooked. Pour off the mushroom bouillon, which should be used the next day for borshch, sorrel shchi, or mushroom soup. Or, give the leftover bouillon to the servants...

Now, to get me some servants...

[Elena Molokhovets, Classic Russian Cooking, trans. Joyce Toomre (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1992), 197.]

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