Belarus
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Draniki
Belarus's golden potato pancakes: finely grated potatoes with onion, fried in pork fat until lacy-crisp, served with sour cream — or stuffed and baked as a 'sorcerer's' version. Ingredients: potatoes, onion, egg, flour (…
Machanka
The pork-and-pancake feast sauce: rich pork ribs and sausages simmered into a thick flour gravy, into which rolled blini are dipped, piece by piece. Ingredients: pork ribs, homemade sausages, pork fat, flour, onion, bay,…
Kolduny
The 'sorcerers': large potato dumplings stuffed with minced meat, boiled or fried — named, legend says, for the magic of meat hidden inside plain potato. Ingredients: potatoes, flour, egg, salt; filling: minced pork or b…
Potato Babka
The great potato pudding: grated potatoes baked long with onion, bacon and milk until the top turns crisp and amber — sliced like a cake, eaten with sour cream. Ingredients: potatoes, onion, bacon or speck, milk, eggs, f…
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