
Zacusca
Zacusca is a Romanian and Moldovan spread of roasted eggplant and sweet peppers cooked down with onion, tomato and oil, made in quantity in autumn and kept in jars for winter.
Recipes by the places recorded in their sources.

Zacusca is a Romanian and Moldovan spread of roasted eggplant and sweet peppers cooked down with onion, tomato and oil, made in quantity in autumn and kept in jars for winter.

Poolish is a loose, unsalted bread preferment of roughly equal weights of wheat flour and water with a pinch of baker's yeast, left to ripen before it goes into the final dough.

Soft yeast dough is shaped into rounds and fried at 180 °C, then brushed with garlic water and topped with sour cream and grated cheese.

A mayonnaise sauce with chopped gherkins or capers, herbs and lemon, served with fried and grilled fish. It was named in nineteenth-century France alongside steak tartare.

Vinegar from spring birch sap fermented to alcohol and then acetic acid, usually with added sugar or honey because the sap is so dilute; made in Sweden and described in older eastern European accounts.