Belarus

Recipes by the places recorded in their sources.

Belarus

3 recipes

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Hogweed barszcz

The original Polish barszcz: young hogweed leaves soured in warm water for a few days, then boiled into soup with egg, butter, cream or millet. Recorded from 1595, with warnings about the sap and lookalikes.

Kraków · Traditional method
· Vegetables
Illustrative paired servings of ryazhenka and varenets, cultured baked milks with a subtle tone difference rather than standardized colors.

Ryazhenka and varenets

Ryazhenka is a Ukrainian and Russian cultured milk made from long-heated, baked cow's milk, cream-coloured and gently sour; varenets is its close relative with a shorter heat treatment.

Ukraine · Modern adaptation
· Dairy
A glass of pale caramel-colored baked milk with a plain clay pot softly out of focus behind it.

Baked milk (toplyonoe moloko)

Baked milk is an Eastern European preparation of milk held at high heat for hours until it turns cream-coloured with a cooked, mildly sweet flavour, without any fermentation.

Russia · Modern adaptation
· Dairy