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Sorry. I don't have written recipes from the former Soviets.
I could probably get them.

They introduced us to extremely fine blinis (pancakes).
The bird feather which was discovered to not be sold in American grocery
stores, was to spread the batter very thinly.

The making of bread, at least by one Ukranian, was finished off by taking a
mouthful of water and spraying it out over the bread a few seconds before
removing the bread from the oven and slicing it. The idea was to give a
gloss to the crust and soften it.

Sorry this reply has been so long in coming. I had a computer emergency and
this email got lost in the desktop mess.

>Recipes would be nice.  Minus the spitting, of course <g>
>
>Even having run a butcher shop and having helped Grampa when I was a kid,
>somethings still don't sit well.  I was NOT prepared to lift the pot at
>Noni's house when she was teaching me how to make "real" Italian food and a
>pig was staring back at me from the stock pot!  I'm rather inclined to leave
>the eyeballs out of my cooking <g>
>
>Lynda