Recipes from Romania

Turkey jelly

Ingredients: 1 turkey, garlic, salt.

Preparation: Cut the turkey into medium-sized pieces. Place them into a pot with boiling water; remove the foam when necessary and add little salt. Leave it to boil at low temperature until the meat is done and the gravy has boiled to a third of the initial quantity. Then take out the meat and put it on a dish. Season the gravy with garlic to taste and strain it. Pour the gravy on the meat and leave it to set in a cool place.

Meatball Soup

Ingredients: 500 g lean meat, 2 carrots, 30 g root parsley, 20 g celery, 80 g onion, 40 g lovage, 500 g bones , 80 g bread, 2 eggs, 1 cup cabbage pickle, 15 g rice, 100 g sour cream, salt, ground pepper.

Preparation: Put the bones in a pot with one and a half liters of cold water. Add the chopped vegetables and leave everything to boil. Mince the meat, bread and onion. Mix this composition with white pepper, salt, eggs and boiled rice. Make walnut-sized balls. When the vegetables softened, add the meatballs and the previously boiled cabbage pickle. In the end pour the cream and sprinkle some chopped lovage.

Pound Cake

Ingredients: 1 kg flour, 7 yolks, 4 egg whites, 300 g sugar, 250 g butter, ½ l milk, 1 spoon rum, vanilla, 1 teaspoon salt, 20g yeast.

Preparation: Pour some warm milk over the yeast in a bowl, adding a teaspoon of sugar. Mix 3 spoons of flour with hot milk. Add the yeast and knead thoroughly. Sprinkle flour, cover the bowl with a napkin and leave it in a warm place. Mix the yolks with salt and sugar. Sprinkle the remaining flour, add warm milk and battered egg white. Mix it with the dough, oil, rum, vanilla and melted butter. Cover the mixture again with a kitchen towel and leave it to grow in a warm place for a couple of hours. Divide the dough and lay it in special trays. Bake them in a hot oven for about an hour.