Based on this, borrowings, changes and repetitions from different cuisines are not protected inside the countrywide delicacies, despite the fact that they have taken root and brought root in one manner or another among some peoples.
And from the dishes belonging to any national cuisine, you can consist of simplest those who can be called primordially country wide in foundation, long-time period use, incidence, and in line with the inclination to them of one or another human beings …
William Pokhlebkin
With the phrases Russian cuisine, our common person imagines potatoes with herring and onions, Russian cabbage soup, pancakes, buckwheat porridge, suckling pig and …. What else?
How did Russian delicacies expand? Did Russians invent Russian cuisine at all?
A present day Russian person has no idea what a real, vintage Russian delicacies is.
Let’s begin from afar.
Initially, the basis of Russian cuisine changed into the Russian range, from which maximum of the true Russian dishes got here out. This Neanderthal unit was designed to warmness food exclusively in a pot and later in forged iron.
True Russian delicacies nearly did now not realize this kind of form of meals processing as frying. Firstly, it was truly not possible to fry inside the oven, and secondly, in Russia they didn’t provide you with any more nasty pans.
The Russian range, consequently, did now not stimulate the improvement of rational technological techniques of thermal processing of products in any respect, excluding in widespread any strategies other than primitive cooking in a pot, which differs little from the Neanderthal method of heating water with crimson-hot stones.
The primary area in the menu of a Russian character from the 9th to the 20th century changed into occupied by means of cereals, gruels and bread. Russian delicacies, like no different inside the global, turned into distinguished by using one belongings. Food become divided into peasant and lordly (grasp’s, boyar’s). On skewers, however constantly from the largest birds or animals. For this, the largest and fattest swans, ducks, sturgeon, beluga, etc. Had been especially decided on.
I will specially notice that the “artwork” of cooking meat and fish on a spit came to Russia from the East, we ourselves did no longer guess before. Another difference from foreign cuisines became the splendor of the lordly cuisine. For instance, it become common to have 50 meals at dinner, and on the royal table their number grew to 150-2 hundred! Russian tsars, boyars and bosses have always cherished to consume heartily on the cost of earthworms of Russian peasants.
Another issue is a Russian peasant or, for instance, worse than that, a woman. They wandered around the Russian lordly land and picked mushrooms, berries, nettles, snoot (have you ever ever eaten snoot?), quinoa.
Vegetables known in Russia since the tenth century – cabbage, radish, peas, cucumbers – were organized and eaten raw or boiled, however usually one by one! Have you attempted the Russian country wide dish of boiled cucumbers? The fact was that during proper Russian cuisine, food become in no way ground! And they had been by no means mixed! Russian cuisine did not recognize any salads and vinaigrettes!
Interestingly, this silly way of life in Russia lasted until the 18th century!
Pokhlebkin writes approximately this:
Have you ever tried complete mushrooms baked in pies? Try it very tasty, but it is very inconvenient to devour.
What such idiocy become related with isn't totally clean, nobody offers an explanation for this.
But I actually have an assumption that this “lack” of Russian delicacies stemmed actually from a loss of iron reducing tools, so to speak, and reducing with flint knives is understood to be very inconvenient. But there may be any other clarification. Cutting become simply … too lazy, why? And so it will come down to fill the stomach.
In reference to this country wide peculiarity (loss of and lack of ability to make knives, or our laziness), in Russian cuisine there had been no such lengthy-recognised dishes overseas at that point as: minced meat, rolls, pastes, cutlets, and … simple sausage.
The Russian human beings did no longer understand cream and butter till the 15th-16th century. Natural Russian dishes were fed on with hemp, nut, poppy vegetable oils. Has every person tried peas with hemp oil? Try it.
Sugar turned into diagnosed in Russia handiest in the seventeenth century. And only inside the 18th century in Russia the first refinery became opened on imported sugar cane.
”So you imagine disgustingly entire and unsalted and tasteless boiled cucumbers pro with poppy oil, and for a snack an uncut onion.
At the same time, grasp-Russian delicacies flawlessly used spices inside the procedure of cooking in step with overseas recipes. The bar and the boyars did no longer deny themselves some thing.
The important national product and the main “delicacies” of the not unusual Russian human beings was bread, black rye bread. White wheat bread changed into no longer baked at all in bakeries, however in special bakeries and slightly sweetened.
And simply do no longer assume that those actual Russian cabbage soup have whatever to do with contemporary (of direction, nicely cooked) transparent cabbage soup. Real Russian cabbage soup changed into huge boiled portions of cabbage or complete heads of cabbage in hot water with rye flour unfastened in it! And for taste, a touch hemp oil (which become simultaneously burning in silly lamps). The actual “Russian cabbage soup” turned into invented by Antoine Kareem, but greater on that later.
And via the way, do not suppose that real Russian rye pancakes crafted from sour rye dough are the ones pancakes which can be now considered Russian. Have you tried real unleavened Russian pancakes with poppy seed oil? Be certain to try.
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