Belarus
Belarus has been described as a flat, dull piece of land straddling the shortest route between Moscow and the Polish border. It's flat, alright, but dull is a little strong. Wide stretches of unbroken birch groves, vast forested marshlands and wooden villages amid rolling green and black fields give Belarus a haunting beauty.

Recipes

Belarussian Salad - Salad

Ingredients:
40 g dried boletuses,
200 g of beef liver,
2 salted cucumbers,
3 onions,
2 eggs,
0,75 glass of mayonnaise,
3 table spoons of vegetable oil,
pepper,
greens,
salt

Directions
Wash dried boletuses 3-4 times, soak them in cold water for 2-3 hours to swell, wash them properly again and boil them in the water they have been soaking, filtered through two layers of gauze beforehand.
Boil beef liver, cool it and cut it into very small pieces.
Add an onion, fried with oil,
slices of salted cucumbers, half of norm of mayonnaise, pepper; mix with boiled, chopped mushrooms and salt it.
Before serving, pour over mayonnaise.


Honey-Apples - Dessert

Ingredients:
500-600 g of apples,
40-20 g of sugar
water
honey

Directions
Wash sour-sweet apples, cut out the core,
fill the holes with sugar. Put apples on to a
baking tray, poured with some water, and bake
in the oven. Before serving up, pour honey over the apples