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• Nalysnyky Pancakes filled with sweet curd cheese and baked in sour cream.
• Crêpes Thin, lacy French pancakes from a rested batter, served with sugar, lemon or jam.
• Blini Thin milk pancakes, buttered and stacked.
• Arme Ritter Stale bread soaked in egg and milk, fried in butter, with cinnamon sugar.
• Tzatziki Thick yoghurt dip with cucumber and garlic.
• Sigara Boregi Crisp fried filo rolls filled with feta and parsley.
• Kyopoolu Hand-chopped spread of roasted aubergine, pepper and garlic.
• Badrijani Nigvzit Fried aubergine slices rolled with walnut paste.
• Zurek Sour rye soup with white sausage and egg.
• Borshch Deep red beetroot soup with sour cream and garlic.
• Pampushky Soft garlic rolls, the classic partner to borshch.
• Placki Ziemniaczane Crisp-edged potato pancakes with sour cream.
• Deruny Crisp potato pancakes served with sour cream.
• Varenyky Soft dumplings with potato and onion filling.
• Pierogi Ruskie Potato and curd cheese dumplings with buttery onions.
• Kotlet Schabowy Thin breaded pork cutlet, fried until puffed and golden.
• Holubtsi Cabbage rolls braised in tomato and sour cream.
• Bigos Slow-cooked sauerkraut and meat stew, better reheated.
• Sernik Twarog cheesecake, lighter than the cream-cheese kind.
• Syrnyky Curd cheese pancakes, crisp outside and soft within.
• Creamed Sweetcorn Soup Velvety sweetcorn soup from five pantry ingredients.
• Squash Soup Silky squash soup that uses up yesterday's roast squash.
• Old-Fashioned Potato Soup Comforting sieved potato soup with celery and parsley.
• Julienne Soup Clear broth with finely cut vegetables, ready in 25 minutes.
• Cream of Tomato Soup Smooth, mellow tomato soup finished with milk.
• Black Bean Soup Long-simmered black bean soup with lemon and egg.
• Walnut Caramel Bars Brittle caramel-walnut bars, thin as toffee.
• Salted Almonds Olive-oil fried almonds, salted while still hot.
• Peanut Cookies Little drop cookies studded with chopped peanuts.
• Ginger Snaps Thin, crisp ginger biscuits that snap.
• Cinnamon and Nutmeg Doughnuts Old-fashioned spiced cake doughnuts, sugar-rolled.
• Cheese Straws Layered cheese pastry strips, baked in eight minutes.
• Waldorf Salad Apple and celery bound in mayonnaise — three ingredients.
• Three-Fruit Salad Layered pineapple, banana and orange in their own syrup.
• Picnic Potato Salad Warm-dressed potato salad with chives and egg.
• Green Bean and Radish Salad Marinated green beans with peppery radish.
• Cucumber Salad Paper-thin cucumber in a sharp, simple dressing.
• Chicken and Celery Salad Cold chicken and crisp celery, dressed at the last minute.
• White Sauce The foundation sauce: butter, flour and scalded milk.
• Graham Bread Molasses-sweetened half-wholemeal loaf.
• Cranberry Sauce Ten-minute cranberry sauce with just sugar and water.
• Chili Sauce Slow-cooked spiced tomato relish for cold meats.
• Baking Powder Biscuits Quick, tender biscuits from four pantry staples.
• Apple Sauce Lemon-scented apple sauce that keeps its texture.
• Stuffed Peppers Peppers filled with mushroom, ham and buttered crumbs.
• Potato Cakes Crisp-edged cakes from yesterday's mashed potato.
• Creamed Chicken on Toast Leftover chicken in white sauce, over hot toast.
• Corn Fritters Crisp sweetcorn fritters lightened with whipped egg white.
• Chicken Croquettes Crisp-crumbed croquettes with a creamy chicken middle.
• Baked Cheese Fondue A risen, soufflé-like baked cheese pudding.
• Reception Cocoa Smooth, frothy cocoa with no lumps and no skin.
• Pineapple Lemonade Lemonade steeped with grated pineapple.
• Orangeade Fresh orange juice let down with sugar syrup.
• Lemonade Syrup-based lemonade that never goes gritty.
• Hot Chocolate Proper hot chocolate made from melted chocolate, not powder.
• Fruit Punch Pineapple, lemon and orange punch for a crowd.
• Roast Chicken Butter-and-flour rubbed roast chicken, basted often.
• Macaroni in White Sauce Macaroni folded into a classic white sauce.
• Irish Stew Slow-simmered lamb with potatoes, carrot and turnip.
• Hamburg Steaks Thick beef cakes seasoned with onion and nutmeg.
• Chicken Pie Poached chicken in its own gravy under a pastry crust.
• Beef Stew with Dumplings A long-braised beef stew topped with suet dumplings.
• Soft Molasses Gingerbread Dark, soft gingerbread ready in a quarter of an hour.
• Soft Molasses Cookies Chewy ginger-molasses cookies; chill the dough first.
• Old-Fashioned Apple Pie A double-crust apple pie with nutmeg and lemon.
• Bread Pudding The classic way to rescue stale bread, baked with vanilla.
• Baked Rice Pudding Slow-baked rice pudding with lemon and a browned top.
• Baked Custard Silky baked custard with nutmeg, cooked in a water bath.
• Rice Muffins Soft muffins that turn yesterday's rice into breakfast.
• Puffed Plain Omelet A light, souffléd omelet from whipped egg whites.
• Golden Corn Cake One-bowl skillet cornbread, on the table in half an hour.
• Crisp Buttermilk-Style Waffles Light, crisp waffles lifted with whipped egg whites.
• Creamy Scrambled Eggs Soft, slow-cooked scrambled eggs in under ten minutes.
• Buttermilk Griddle Cakes Five-ingredient buttermilk pancakes, ready in 20 minutes.
• Stuffed Eggs Deviled eggs made with cheese and mustard, not mayonnaise.
• Souffléd Crackers Plain crackers puffed in the oven with butter.
• Sardine Canapés Sardine and egg-yolk paste on toast.
• Thin Ham Sandwiches Wafer-thin ham between buttered bread, crusts off.
• Fried Cheese Balls Crisp, puffed cheese fritters rolled in cracker crumbs.
• Cheese Canapés Toast rounds under melted, cayenne-spiked cheese.