The Cookery Book

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James Beard

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POLISH CUISINE Rosół – chicken broth Ingredients: Chicken or parts of a chicken (wings, legs: 1–2 kilograms) Vegetables: 2 carrots, 1 parsley, little leek, little celery, a bunch of parsley stems Salt Pepper “Vegeta” spice Chicken bouillon cube

Preparation: Wash and cut the meat into small portions. Put it in a pot ans pour 3-4 litres of water.

Put in the vegetables (cut into small chunks) and one chicken bouillon cube. Bring to boil, skim any foam and simmer until the meat is soft. Season the soup with salt, pepper and “Vegeta”.

Serve with pasta (strings), and dress with parsley stems.

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Kotlet schabowy - pork chop Ingredients: Pork chop - 1kg Salt Pepper Eggs – 2 Flour Breadcrumbs Olive oil or cooking oil

Preparation: Slice the meat for two-three centimetres thick pieces. Smash them with mallet, season with salt and pepper.

Cover the meat with flour, dip in scrambled eggs and then cover with breadcrumps. Fry on hot oil turning over when fried on one side.

Serve with potatoes, rice or vegetable salad.

Instead of pork one can use chicken or turkey fillet.

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Sałatka jarzynowa - vegetable salad Ingredients: 4 carrots 4 parsleys 4 popatoes 1 little, boiled celery 4 – 5 boiled eggs 2 – 3 apples 2 – 3 pickled cucumbers Tinned peas (30 dkg) Salt Pepper Mayonnaise Preparation: Boiled and peeled vegetables, peeled apples, pickled cucumbers and eggs cut into little dices. Mix it all in a bowl, add peas and mayonnaise. Season with pepper, salt.

Serve with pork-bucher’s products (ham, sausage) and bread.

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GREEK CUISINE MOUSAKAS-MOUZAKA INGREDIENTS            

1 kg aubergines (large or/and elongated variety) 160 ml vegetable oil (about 1 teacup) 1 large onion, finely sliced 450 gr. minced beef 1 glass white wine (not retsina, but aretsinoto) 350 gr. fresh tornatoes, 1400 gr. tomatoes, drained of some of their juice and chopped teaspoon ground cinnamon teaspoon ground allspice salt and black pepper 1 teaspoon oregano 25 gr. grated parmesan, kefalotiri cheese some chopped parsley for the béchamel sauce

80 gr butter 80 gr. Flour 600 ml warm milk salt and white pepper 30 gr. grated Parmesan or Gruyere cheese 2 egg yolks Topping 60 gr. grated Parmesan,Gruyere or kefalotiri cheese 4 tablespoons toasted breadcrumbs      

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METHOD

Moussaka should be baked in the oven. Use a roasting container,

eitber square or oblong, approximately 25x25 cm or 39x28 cm. It is recommended that you spread the work involved over two days for your convinience; one can easily cook the meat the day before, witbout the Moussaka suffering at all. Do not do the same with the aubergines; they should be fried on the day.

Aubergines

Top and tail the aubergines, without peeling them. Rinse them, cut them lengthways in 75-mm thick slices and immerse them in salted water, for 30 minutes. Take them out, squeeze gently, rinse, then squeeze them again. Drain them in a colander and pat dry. Fry them in hot vegetable oil until they become pale golden on both sides; you can either deep-fry them, which is easier but they absorb a lot of oil, or shallow-fry them. In either case, drain them on absorbent paper on a flat platter before serving, so that most of their oil will dribble away.

Meat

Sautee the sliced onion in 2 tablespoons vegetable oil, until it looks glistening. Add the meat and sautee together, stirring, until all the lumps are broken down and the meat starts to change color. Pour in the wine, add tomatoes, sliced finely, the spices, salt and pepper and the oregano. Cover and cook for 20 minutes, stirring from time to time in case it sticks. Then mix in the grated cheese and parsley.

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Bechamel Sauce

Melt the butter and, away from the heat, gradually add the flour and stir to amalgamate. Return to the heat and gradually add the milk and seasoning, stirring continuously. Simmer for 9-10 minutes, stirring, until it has thickened considerably.

Withdraw the pan from the heat, let it stand briefly, then add the cheese and the egg yolks. Stir to amalgamate them.

Do not let the sauce boil after this. It should by now be a thick bechamel, to enable it to sit on top of the meat mixture and form a kind of crust.

To assemble, cover the base of the roasting dish with half of the fried aubergines, then spread half of the meat mixture evenly on top of them and covers neatly with the remaining aubergines.

Spread the remaining meat and sauce evenly over the top and cover neatly with the bechamel sauce. Sprinkle the grated cheese all over the top, and the breadcrumbs. Moussaka from Macedonia may contain a layer of thinly sliced roun potatoes which have been fried first. Bake in a pre-heated oven, gas no.4/ 350 grades F/ 180 grades C, for 1 hour, untit a golden crust is formed all over the top. Let it stand for 5 minutes before serving, in order to be able to cut it more easily. To serve, cut into square or oblongshaped pieces, about 8 cm thick.

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Fasolada-bean soup Ingredients  500 gr. beans

 2-3 carrots cut in thick slices  1 onion chopped  4 celery stalks  1/ 2 red pepper  200 gr. Tomato grated  1 teaspoon tomato paste

 1 cup of tea olive oil  Juice of half a lemon  1 teaspoon bukovo  And optional salt, pepper

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INSTRUCTIONS

1. Put the beans in the evening in the water with a teaspoonful of soda 2. In the morning we start cooking. Allow the beans to a boil and throw the first water.

3. Replace after the beans in a saucepan and add boiling water to cook faster. Just soft and add the remaining ingredients, added to the end of the grated tomato, the tomato paste and the juice of lemon.

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Melomakarona-Small honey cake (We usually make it at Christmas time) Ingredients 2 cups water olive oil 1 cup water margarine (room temperature) 1 cup orange juice zest of one orange 1 cup of wine Brandy 1 glass of wine sugar 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 vanilla 1 cup water 1 pound semolina flour All purpose ½ teaspoon cloves 1 teaspoon cinnamon For the syrup 3 cups sugar water 1 ½ cup water 3 tablespoons honey ½ lemon 1 cinnamon

Instructions

1. Stir together the margarine, oil and sugar until white in the mixer.

2. Put then orange juice, zest, brandy and stir.

3. Then put the baking soda, baking powder, vanilla, stir and then start and add the flour and get both.

4. Butter the pan and forms melomakarona.

5. Put them in the oven to 250 degrees in the air.

6. When melomakarona will bake take them out and leave in pan.

7. Immediately begin to make the syrup.

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8. Throw all ingredients in a saucepan except the lemon juice, boil them. As the melomakarona are warm and the syrup is hot, put the syrup into the pan on melomakarona and left them to drink the syrup. Then turn melomakarona from the up-down. You can put nuts above the melomakarona.

Try to cook all these and‌ Good luck!!!

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TURKISH CUISINE

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THE INGREDIENTS 

1/2 Mince meat

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5 onions(cut into small pieces)

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1 small spoon black pepper

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Red pepper

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100 gr walnut

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250 gr butter

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Salt

FOR ITS COVER

FOR ITS SAUCE

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½ Mince meat

1 Spoon butter

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250 gr boiled and pounded wheat

1 spoon tomato paste

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Salt

1.5 glass water

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1 onion (grated)

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Tomato paste

HOW TO COOK First, prepare the inner part of the içli köfte. Cook the mince meat, chopped onions with some salt and butter together for about 2 mins. Then add peppers and walnut into this mixture. Let it cook itself for some time.after it is done, let it to cool.

Secondly, let’s prepare its cover. Mix all the ingredients, necassary for its cover ( mince meat, wheat, salt, onion, tomato paste.) knead it with your hands. When this finishes, divide this mixture into small parts, (as big as a hand). Then, into this small mixture, add the first mixture, and roll them together.

Thirdly, put some water in a saucepan, add butter and tomatopaste, salt in this.

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Let it boil. After it has boiled, put our small içli köftes(pieces) into this saucepan. After 5 mins, it is ready. Good appetite!

ZEYTİNYAĞLI YAPRAK SARMA(ROLLED LEAF WİTH OLİVE OıL)

THE INGREDIENTS 500 Gr grapevine leaf 2 glasses of rice 4 spoons of olive oil 1 onion 1 tomato Some parsley Some mint Red and black pepper Salt 1 spoon tomato paste 1 spoon sumak or one lemon This booklet is a part of an activity of the Comenius project.

HOW TO COOK First, Wash the rice and put it into boiled water. Let it there until 30 mints. Then fitler it.

Put it in a pot and add oil,chopped onion, chopped tomato, chopped parsley and mint, and red pepper, black pepper and salt. Mix them together.

Second, boil the leaves in a saucepan. After this, put each leaf widely on a smooth tray. Add the rice mixture in them one by one. Roll and shape them. Do this until all the leaves finish. Put these rolled leaves into a pan, add some water and sumac ot one lemon into it. let it cook until 20 mins.

After 20 mins, it is ready. Good appetite!

Ingred覺ents 4 glasses of flour 2 eggs 125 gr butter 250 gr minced meat 1 parsley 1 onion 400 gr yoghurt Garlic and red pepper Black pepper Tomato paste

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Preparing the minced meat: Add chopped onion, chopped parsley, salt, red and black pepper into the minced meat and mix them together until the minced meat gets its stiffness.

Preparing its sauce: Melt the butter and add the red pepper , tomato paste and some water in it. Boil them together for 2 mins.

How to cook: Add the eggs and salt into the flour. Add some water into the mixture. Mix them together until the mixture gets its sstiffness like dough. Then using the roller press, have the dough get the shape of a sheet. It will be flat and smooth. Cut this smooth dough into small pieces. Put some minced meat into these pieces. Then cover the each piece. When you have finished with all the pieces, put them into a pot and boil them for about 10 minsAfter 10 min, filter the pieces and add the sauce in it.

Mant覺 is ready. Good appetite!

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ROMANIAN CUISINE Aubergine salad with mayonnaise Ingredients: 1 kg of aubergines 1 onion, finely sliced 3 spoons of mayonnaise Salt 2 tomatoes for decorating Grill the aubergines. After they have cooked and cooled a little, peel them and put them on a leaning surface in order for the juice to drain off as they cool.

Then you put them on a wooden cutting board and chop them finely with a wooden knife (you can even use a wooden spatula). Mix the chopped aubergines with the mayonnaise.

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Then add salt and the onion.

For decoration you can use tomatoes or red peppers.

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Serve it with fresh baked bread.

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Bean stew with sausages

Ingredients: 500g of beans 1 large onion 1 pepper Smoked sausages 4-5 spoons of tomato sauce 1 carrot Vegetable oil Dill Parsley Salt and pepper (you can also add Summer savory and Tarragon) After washing the beans, put them in water on a medium flame. After it comes to a boil, change the water (be careful to use hot water, cold water hardens the beans). When the beans are half boiled, add the chopped carrot. When the beans and carrot are almost ready, chop the onion and put them in a heated pan with a little vegetable oil. After it is slightly cooked, add the finely chopped pepper and let them cook for about five minutes, while stirring. Add the tomato sauce and stir; when it becomes a thick sauce add the spices.

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Pour the sauce into the pot with the beans and stir. Let the stew boil for another 15-20 minutes.

Meanwhile, chop the sausages and fry them in a pan, then add them to the stew.

When it is ready, add the finely chopped parsley and dill.

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Mamaliga with cheese and sour cream Ingredients: 1, 5 liters of water Corn flour 2 eggs 2 spoons of vegetable oil 250g of cheese 250g sour cream Salt

Put the water in a pot on a medium flame; add the salt and the oil. When it begins to boil slowly add the corn flour, stirring until it thickens. Let it cook another 5 to 10 minutes.

Mix the cheese with the sour cream and the eggs.

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On a plate put the mamaliga (you can give it any form), and put the mixture of cheese, eggs and sour cream next to it.

Cabbage rolls (Sarmale) Ingredients: 1, 5 kg sauerkraut 1 kg pork meat – minced (you can replace it with any kind of meat) 50 – 100g of rice 100g chopped onion 100 ml tomato sauce Boiled water Vegetable oil Bay leaves (1 or 2) Dill Salt and pepper 2 spoons of sour cream Cook the onion in a pot with 2 spoons of vegetable oil for about 2 minutes. Mix the minced meat with the onion and the rice (after it has been washed and drained). Also add a dash of salt and pepper.

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Take a leaf of sauerkraut, put a teaspoon of minced meat and roll it. Make sure you secure the edges so the meat doesn’t come out. Do the same with the other leaves.

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Finely slice the extra leaves (the ones that are too small to roll).

For cooking the rolls you need a 4 – 5 l pot. Put half of the sliced sauerkraut on the bottom of the pot, next put the cabbage rolls and on top the rest of the sliced sauerkraut. Put the bay leaves and about 20 grains of pepper and finely chopped dill.

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Next put the tomato sauce and the boiled water (enough to cover them). Put a lid on top and let them cook on a medium fire until they come to a boil, then turn it to small. Let them cook for about 1 hour and a half.

The cabbage rolls are served with mamaliga and sour cream.

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BULGARIAN CUISINE

Shopska salad (shopska salata)

As soon as the winter months have faded and we start to enjoy the warmer months of summer, one can’t help thinking of this fabulous Bulgarian salad.

Ingredients: 4 spring onions; 4 medium size tomatoes; half a cucumber; 2 green peppers; 100g of bulgarian ‘cirene’ white cheese (or feta); chopped fresh parsley; olive oil; salt; optional: olives Instructions: Grill the peppers until the skin starts to darken and crisp. Let them cool, covered, for a few minutes. Then remove the skins and the pips. Cut them into small cubes, along with the onions, tomatoes and cucumbers.

Place the prepared ingredients into a large salad bowl.

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Flavor the salad with chopped parsley, olive oil and mix well. Cover in grated white cheese and enjoy!

If it takes your fancy, add a few black olives.

Panagurishte poached eggs (yaica po panagyurski) This dish is named after Panagurishte (pronounced pan-a-gyor-ish-te) town.

Ingredients: 8 eggs; 4 soup spoons of butter; 600 g of natural yoghurt (Bulgarian if possible!); 5 or 6 cloves of garlic; 5 soup spoons of vinegar; 2 teaspoons of paprika; One third of a teaspoon of chili powder; Freshly chopped dill; Salt Instructions: Crush the garlic and mix it with the yoghurt and a coffee cup of salt.

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Boil a full pan of water (with salt and the vinegar). Break the eggs one by one into a bowl, and then poach them in the simmering water.

After three minutes of cooking, remove the eggs. In a serving plate, place the yoghurt and then the eggs on top.

Heat the butter; add paprika and the chili powder. Mix together for a few seconds and remove from the heat. Drizzle over the poached eggs.

Sprinkle with freshly chopped dill and serve with fresh crusty bread for a delicious and quick meal.

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Mesenitsa All skillful housewives are convinced - bake it to be loved  Ingredients: 1kg-flour, 2-eggs, 1 tea cup - yogurt, 1 pack. -yeast, 6soup spoons- оlive, 1 soup spoon- vinegar, 250-300gr. – white cheese /feta/, 1 tea cup – warm water or milk

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Instructions: Knead dough from the ingredients. Keep it in a warm place to rice for the 1st time.

Knead it once again and divide it in 6-7 or 8-9 parts formed as balls. Roll out sheets in a middle size; grease them with margarine, spread in a large baking dish and sprinkle with the cheese. Roll the sheets and cut the rolls on several parts. Put the cutted parts in the baking dish each with the wide side upwards. Keep it in a warm place to rice for the 2nd time. Grease it with a beaten up egg and bake it in hot oven 40-45 minutes on medium heat.

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