For two plain kulich:

1 cup milk
2 tsp dry yeast
1 cup sugar
14 tbsp (2 sticks) butter
3 eggs in room temperature
1 tsp vanilla
1/4 tsp ground cardamom
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup white raisins + 1/4 cup rum or brandy for soaking
4 cups all-purpose flour

For two chocolate kuliches omit raisins, cardamom and nutmeg, add:

1/2 cup dry tart cherries soaked in brandy or maraschino cherries
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
4 oz semisweet chocolate
1/2 cup all-purposed flour

For glaze:
1 egg white
3.75 oz of powdered sugar

Dissolve yeast and 1 teaspoon sugar in a small quantity of warm (160F) milk. As soon as the yeast mixture rises, pour in the rest of milk, beat in eggs and whip carefully. Add sugar, combined with cardamom and nutmeg, and melted butter to the mixture. Then pour in flour slowly, stirring carefully, so that there aren’t lumps. Stir in soaking raisins.

Line the sides and bottom of can with greased wax paper, making sure for the paper is at least one and a half the height of the can. Divide dough and put in molds. Cover with a clean towel and leave to rise in the mold. The best place for this – your oven with the light on. There is no draft and the temperature above room temperature because of the light. Rising usually takes 2-3 hours.

After that put cakes in a preheated oven (350F) and bake until light brown 45 minutes. Don’t open the oven often. But if it is getting very dark, cover it with foil to prevent it from burning. Check the readiness with a wooden stick – put it in the Kulich. If the stick is clean, the cake is ready.

Let the Kuliches cool down in their molds and then very carefully take them out and put on a wire rack on side to completely cool.

Glaze Kuliches over the top. For glaze whip egg white with powdered sugar until firm.

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All you need are eggs and onion peel. Put them both in boiling water and boil for an hour or so till you see that eggs became brown. Many of Russian hostesses use this way of cooking Easter eggs nowadays, but also they use bright Easter stickers to make eggs looking more festive. On Easter people give to each other such eggs as a present. Easter egg can be stored for a whole years till the next Easter as decoration. If you are interested in Russian traditions, but dont want to cook eggs like Russian do, just buy decorative Easter egg and enjoy happy holiday of Easter.

For example, try to add to your every day menu some traditional Russian foods.
They are tasty, easy to cook and not expensive.
The most popular salad for Lent in Russia is cabbage salad. It’s ingredients are cabbage, carrots, also you can add apple. You can cook sour cabbage as an alternative.
Your Russian menu for Lent can include Russian cabbage soup and soup with mushrooms. These are amazing dishes and you will surely enjoy them.
Speaking about snackes, we cant help mentioning different picked vegetables. They are very popular in Russian during the Lent. Among of them pickled tomatoes, picked cucumbers and other dishes.
Russian ortodoxal church allows eating fish anly few days during the Lent. But if you are Roman you shoud know that it is allowed for you to eat sea products. You can enjoy calamari and different kinds of fish and caviar.

Sour cream is easy to cook, it needs not very expensive ingredients. And one more reason to eat sour cabbage – except of very good taste it is real fund of vitamin C. Sour cabbage has more vitamin C than oranges. Eating it you do great prophylactic of winter diseases.
You can try to cook sour cabbage by yourself.

You will need:

3 ½ pounds shredded white cabbage
1 shredded carrot
2 small bay leaves, lightly crushed
10 allspice berries
12 black peppercorns
2 ½ tablespoons kosher salt

Mix all ingredients in a large bowl using you hands. Mash with strongly until the cabbage wilts and exudes juice. Transfer mix to a pickling crock, packing it in as tightly as possible. Apply a weight, making sure that all of the cabbage is completely submerged beneath the brine. Cover and let ferment at room temperature for 4 – 6 days.
If you are not sure, you will have the best result, buy sour cabbage in the shop.

Take 1 kilogram of rye bread and cut it into pieces. Then put these pieces to electric stove and dry. Pound dried bread and fill up with 5 liters of boiling water. Wait for 6-8 hours and filter water, put in it 200 gram of sugar and 50 gram of dilute in 1 liter of water barm. Сover mix, in 12 hour fill bottle with kvass. Close bottles and let them stay in warm place for 24 hours. After that and can put bottles to the fridge and enjoy refreshing Russian kvass. Notice, kvass will have its best taste qualities in 4 days.
If you have no time to follow this recipe, use kvass concentrate to cook this beverage.
But of course, the easiest way to get kvass is to buy it. You can choose original taste free of any additional ingredients. Or try kvass containing berries or kvass with honey – it is really tasty and useful.

To cook shaslik you will need:

Fresh pork

Onions

Pepper

Lemon or glass of dry white wine

Salt and sugar

How to cook:

Take fresh pork with lard (600 grams for a person), cut it into pieces and put it into the deep dish. Cut and add onions (250 grams for 1 kilogram of meat). Then add juice of one lemon, salt, sugar, pepper. Leave this mix in place with room temperature for 4-5 hours.

Fry shashlik on open flame, using metal sticks.

Serve shashlik with lemons and fresh greenery. Spicy ketchup can be used as sauce.