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1.Checkerboard Cake
Dough: 3 1 / 4 cup flour, 1 / 2 tsp salt, 1 3 / 4 cup sugar, 220 g butter (softened) 4 eggs, 1 cup milk, 2 tsp vanilla extract 3 ounces semisweet chocolate (melted).
Chocolate glaze: 220 g butter (softened), 1 pound powdered sugar, 8 ounces semisweet chocolate (melted), 1 / 4 cup sour cream, 1 / 3 cup of milk.
Decoration: Tootsie rolls - butterscotch (two colors).
To mix the dough (except chocolate), split into two halves, and one-half to add chocolate. Pour on packages (with incised tip) and pour in 3 forms as shown in the figure (two cakes white dough from the outside, but the third - chocolate). Oven 350 F (20 - 25 min), cakes cool, smeared with icing.
Glaze: Mix butter and sugar, add the chocolate and cream, gradually interfere with milk. Butterscotch heated in the microwave 5-6 seconds, roll a rolling pin, cut the squares and circles, decorate with.
 2.Quiche au saumon (open pie with salmon)
Cloenoe dough, steamed salmon or other fish, red gram 200, a bit of smoked salmon, 3-4 eggs, thick cream or sour cream, salt, pepper, nutmeg.
Take the form with small bumpers, put it the rolled dough sheet to climb on the edge, cut unnecessary. At the bottom lay slices of salmon - first boiled, then smoked, sprinkle with grated cheese. Beat the eggs with cream, add salt, pepper, nutmeg, pour into a form. Yes, but must pre-heat the oven to 180 degrees. Send this matter and bake until zarumyanivaniya.
3.Zakuska meat and grated cheese
300 g of roast beef, 1 onion, 2 tablespoons. tablespoons butter, 50 g cheese, 1 egg, 1 / 2 cup mayonnaise, salt.
Onions finely chopped and fried in butter until cooked. Cold cooked meat mince, connect with chilled fried onions, grated cheese, whipped butter, chopped egg, mayonnaise, salt and mix well. When a table appetizer sprinkled with finely chopped greens.
4.Zalivnoy mousse of ham
300 g ham, 3 eggs, 1 tablespoon gelatine, 1 tablespoon white wine table, 1 teaspoon of mustard, pepper and salt to taste, 2 cups of broth, half a cup of cream.
2 hard-boiled eggs and ham mince 2 times, add the wine, pepper, salt and mustard. All carefully rub, add the gelatin (1 teaspoon of gelatine in half cup of broth), mix gently introduce a mixture of whipped cream.
Of the 1 tablespoon of gelatin and 2 cups of broth to cook jelly, and chill it, poured into small proportion dish so that it covers only the walls of molds. This dish must be preset in a basin with ice, so they are well cooled, then pour into each a little jelly, and rotate them so that suffused jelly congeal on the sides with a thin layer. Then fill them with the prepared mousse, but not to the top, leaving room for the jelly, which fill with mousse on top.
Refrigerate for several hours to a dish is well frozen. To take out, dropping a plate for a few seconds in hot water, then immediately overturn the plate. Serve on a round plate, centered on the supply round salad with mayonnaise and melkonarublennoy greens and arrange around the mousse.
5.Kartofel and tomatoes stuffed with herring
Herring (fillet), 200 g, 100 g onion turnip, parsley, 25 g, dill 25 g, 50 g mustard, potatoes 8 pieces (medium sized) tomatoes 8 pieces (medium sized), mustard sauce 150 g, sweet peppers and lettuce.
Mustard sauce: 50 g mustard, lemon juice 20 g, 10 g sugar, vegetable oil 50 g, egg yolk 1 pc.
Norwegian herring finely chopped, onion and green chop. Mix herring, onions, greens, and mustard. Peel the potatoes, giving it a barrel shape: boil, remove the inner part. I cut the top of the tomatoes and partially remove the pulp and seeds. Stuffed with potatoes and tomatoes chopped herring.
For the mustard gravy Beat yolks with lemon juice to form a white foam. Constantly whisking, pour a thin stream of oil and continue beating until a homogeneous mass. Add sugar and mustard, stir. Arrange potatoes and tomatoes on plate and pour the mustard sauce, and garnish with slices of herring, sweet peppers and lettuce.
6.Kartofel stuffed with prawns
250 g prawns, 250 g mushrooms, 2 tablespoons of flour, 7 - 8 potatoes, sauce, salt to taste.
Shaky shrimp lightly boil in a little oil, fry separately sliced fresh or canned mushrooms.
Equal-sized potatoes wash and bake in the oven, cool them, cut off tops and carefully remove the core.
Prepared shrimp and mushrooms mixed with Hollandaise sauce, the mix to fill the potatoes and bake them in the oven until golden brown. Serve hot.
Sauce: 4 raw egg yolks in a bowl pour with a thick bottom, add 50 ml of water, cut into small pieces of butter (100 g) and cook, stirring constantly, until a homogeneous mixture, then pour the lemon juice (50 ml), and the finished sauce strain.
7.Kuritsa with honey, rose jam, nuts and ginger
Chicken weighing up to 1 kg, 2 tablespoons honey 2 tablespoons butter, 1 teaspoon rose jam, 1 tablespoon finely chopped peanuts, 1 tbsp finely chopped pickled ginger.
Melt butter and mix with honey. With a syringe the mixture injected into the breast and legs of chicken. A small portion of the mixture of honey and oil to mix with rose jam and rub the whole chicken with the mixture. Bake in a sleeve for baking up to full readiness.
Cooked chicken divided into two parts and put on a plate backed up. Sprinkle with nuts and ginger and served hot.
8.Kuropatka with oranges
2 partridges, 20 g butter, 2 orange, grape, salt to taste.
Partridge cut in half lengthwise and fry in butter. The pieces lay in a deep refractory ware. With an orange cut peel and cut into julienne of blanched. Orange slice, remove seeds. Around the game, put orange and grape, pour the juice left from cooking, sprinkle orange peel, cover and place dish in preheated oven for 5-7 minutes. Serve game can be in the same pot, or putting it on the hot plate.
9.Mnogosloyny cake with colored jelly
For each layer, you will need: 2 teaspoons heaped gelatin dissolved in cold boiled water and 2 cups of red fruit juice, 2 cups freshly squeezed orange juice, 800 grams of sour cream 20% fat, fresh fruit seedless variety of colors, a handful of almonds, 1 / 2 cup of the best cocoa powder, 100 grams of milk chocolate, sugar to taste, 1 cup 30% cream and other decorations of your invention.
The four cups of cold boiled water soak for 2 teaspoon heaped gelatin. Find this capacity-form cake to its walls are uniformly expanded upward and the bottom was rather flat and wide. At the bottom of the form Put the beautifully cut fruits of different colors and set it aside. When the gelatin is completely swell, start making the cake.
 In a metal or plastic bowl pour 2 cups of orange juice. Disperse on a small fire bulgy gelatin, not bringing a solution to a boil. Stir it into the bowl with the juice and try it: perhaps it will not mix, to your taste, sweet. In this case, add the sugar and stir well. Take a large spoon and gently watering fruit on the bottom of the form for a cake so that they were flooded by half. Put in a cool place, preferably in the refrigerator to blend frozen, and pieces of fruit have been fixed.
Remove the form and carefully refill remaining already cooled down, mix. Put the form in the fridge and go about their business.
When the first layer of jelly harden, start making the second layer. Disperse the gelatin, as for the first layer. In pre-washed bowl pour the juice of red fruits, gelatine solution, add if necessary, sugar. Stir. Put a handful or two of frozen pitted cherries, or currants, or cranberries. Stir, cool and carefully, on the edge, pour on the first layer of jelly in the form of cake. Put the form in the refrigerator, lightly annealed in the oven almonds and chop it into not too small pieces.
When the second layer hardens, start manufacturing next, the white layer. In a bowl Put the 400 grams of sour cream, then dissolve the gelatin and gently, stirring constantly, pour the solution into the cream. Add about 23 cups of sugar and mix well. Add the red-hot almonds, stir, let cool and gently pour over the frozen second layer. Put in refrigerator. Take a pre-cooked slabs of milk chocolate and broken it into small pieces.
For the fourth, last, layer 1 / 2 cup cocoa powder, mix with 23 cups of sugar and stir with a small amount of cold boiled water to the consistency of thick cream. Put the bowl in the last 400 grams of sour cream, add chocolate and stir. Carefully pour gelatin dissolute and again stir. Cool, pour over the third layer of cake. On the surface evenly spread the chocolate chips. Put in the refrigerator and check to forget if your pets for a walk with the dog.
In the meantime, get ready for the most critical moments in the manufacture of cake. Prepare a large platter and a bowl of this size, which is almost fully fit shape for a cake. When the last layer of jelly harden, boil the kettle and pour into a bowl. Lower the form of jelly for 30-40 seconds in boiling water (it should be done cautiously!). Then quickly remove the form, cover the dish and turn it. If you failed the first time - do not worry. Put the form in the refrigerator, pour hot water, boil water in a kettle and - take 2. You definitely get!
And so the cake in a dish: rises as multicolored magic iceberg. Now you can afford a little vacation: for whipping cream. Beat them with a small amount of powdered sugar or fine sugar and place beautiful drifts around the iceberg, through the gelatin-ice surface is translucent colored fruit. All the rest - at your discretion. Just keep in mind that this cake is decorated with cream should be stored in the refrigerator and not too long. It would be much more correct to whip the cream before serving the cake on the table.
10.Osetrina smoked the New Year table
Fillet of sturgeon, salt, liquid smoke.
Fillet of sturgeon (fish up to half of the range) is salted: 1 tsp salt per kg of fish. Wrapped in foil. 2:00 is in the room, 24 hours on the bottom shelf in the refrigerator. Then the fish need to deploy and sprinkle with liquid smoke. Again, wrap and bake at 180 degrees 30-40 minutes. Foil is not deployed until the fish is hot.
11.Perepela, baked in a pumpkin
1 pumpkin (2-3 kg), 4 quail, 1 cup cooked, crumbly rice, 2 cups of chopped fruit, 2-3 onions, 100 g butter, olives, parsley, salt to taste.
Ripe pumpkin, wash and cut off her top. Severed part is not disposed of. Spoon removed from pumpkin seeds and some pulp, so that later in the fit pumpkin filling. Trained quail cut in half, salt and fry in hot butter until a crust (2-3 minutes). Saute in butter, shredded onions until golden color. Fruit for this dish can be very different, fresh and dried. Fresh fruit cut into slices, dried, rinse, soak in water to swell.
In the prepared pumpkin first put boiled rice mixed with fried onions, then fried pieces of meat, put fruit on top, add a bit of butter. Close pumpkin cut tops, to strengthen its thin wedge splinter. Lubricate the pumpkin butter and bake in preheated oven well. Baking time - 2-3 hours. Cooked pumpkin out onto a plate, and garnish with green olives.
Cut the pumpkin is better right on the dining table slices from top to bottom. For each serving put a slice of pumpkin, half a quail, rice and fruit.
12.Pechenye apples with vanilla cream
6 large apples 1 cup vanilla cream, 30 g chopped walnuts, a few almonds, raisins, 60 g butter, 2 cups of red wine and 6 teaspoons of jam or currant jam home.
For vanilla cream: 125 ml of milk mixed with a tablespoon of potato flour, add a full tablespoon of butter, 60 g sugar, 1 egg yolk and 1 / 2 sachets of vanilla sugar. To hinder a steam bath until the creamy mass. Let it cool and then whip. Apples are washed and cleaned from the core. Put into the nuts, almonds, raisins and vanilla cream. The form for baking lubricated, put it in apples, and bake until done. Remove, cool, out onto a plate. On each apple to put a spoonful of jam, pour sauce on top, stay in shape.
13.Pechene "Christmas Toy"
Looking for caramel: color, transparent (red, green, etc.).
Do a test for a familiar, favorite cookie. Rolled dough 5 mm thick. Carved from a square, it is a square, The frame is obtained from the test. Do holes for the ribbons, for which we will hang it on the tree.
Caramel is ground. The oven is heated to 180.
Take a baking tray. Stella parchment paper or baking paper. Puts on paper frames from the test. Bake 10 minutes. We reach and embankments in the middle of each frames grind candy in one color. Sent back to the oven. Bake 5 more minutes, until the caramel has melted and the biscuits will be golden and ready. We take out a form and send it in a cool place to caramel frozen. The result is a beautiful cake with colored glass is almost transparent. At the Christmas tree it will be great.
14.Pomidory stuffed mushrooms
8 tomatoes, 150 grams of mushrooms pickled or salt, 2 eggs, 100 g onion (bulb), 15 g of vegetable oil, 50 g mayonnaise, pepper, salt, dill.
Ripe is not very large (preferably identical in size) tomatoes, wash, by the stalk to cut 1 / 4 - 1 / 5 part, and from the middle with a teaspoon to remove the seeds with the juice. Inside the tomatoes with salt and pepper, then fill with minced meat, which is slightly above Pour mayonnaise and sprinkle with dill. Ready to pack the tomatoes on a plate with a paper napkin and garnish with sprigs of green leaves or lettuce.
Ground: mushrooms finely shred and mix with chopped, fried in vegetable oil, onions and boiled eggs. In stuffing, you can add a little garlic.
15.Pryany cake
At 20 cm the form:
For cakes (better to bake for the day): flour 110 g sugar 110 g butter 40 g, 3 eggs, beaten cinnamon, ginger powder, salt, black pepper, green peas.
For the cream: cream w / whip 400 g, 350 g cottage cheese, strawberries (can be frozen), 250 g, sugar (to taste), cookies, amaretto, liqueur Maraschino (solid cherry).
Eggs, beat the sugar and a pinch of salt until whisk until starts to leave "traces", adding portions of flour mixed with ch.l cinnamon, 1 / 2 tsp ginger and a pinch of black pepper svezhesmolotogo, with the mix very carefully and slowly lower the upper hand. Add the melted and cooled butter. In the form (better split), greased and sprinkled with flour Put the dough and put in the already hot 180 degrees. oven for about 35 minutes.
Strawberries cut into slices, sleeps 50 g sugar, 2 tbsp liqueur and 2 tablespoons water. Leave for 30 minutes. Cheese wipe with sugar (2 tablespoons). Whipped cream, beat the sugar and gently mix with curd. Merge the liquid with strawberry. Cut cake into 3 Korzh. Each cake impregnate this syrup. Put the cake on a half of strawberries and 1 / 3 of cream, 2 - second half of strawberries and 1 / 3 of cream, top coated with the remaining cream and sprinkle with crumbled amaretto cookies. We give a couple of hours to stand in a cool place.
16.Pyure pumpkin with whipped cream
Great big slice of sweet pumpkin, 3 / 4 cup fine granulated sugar or 1 / 2 cup powdered sugar, a packet of vanilla sugar, three tablespoons of finely chopped almonds, a glass of 30% cream.
A pumpkin peel, cut into small pieces and cook in a minimal amount of water to until the pumpkin becomes quite soft and the water evaporates completely. Pumpkin mash thoroughly so as not to leave even very small pieces. Add sugar and stir until it dissolves. Mix puree, add the ground almonds, vanilla sugar and cool. Whip the cream with no added sugar. Puree put in kremanki and decorate the top a fair amount of whipped cream.
18.Salat cabbage with orange and capers
Half a head of cabbage of medium size, 5-6 large sweet oranges, 2 tablespoons salted capers, 2 tablespoons mayonnaise mayonnaise, 3 tablespoons 20% cream, salt to taste.
Shred the cabbage as possible thinner. Oranges cleaning of the skin, divided into slices, each slice peeled. Cut the oranges: each slice for 2-3 pieces. Sliced oranges, add to cabbage.
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