Do you use ancient recipes of your national cuisine?
@MashaVickina (2184)
Russian Federation
June 19, 2018 5:41am CST
Hello, everyone!
In Russia, we choose everyday dishes not only from the Russian cuisine but from others too. Females of my family cook Armenian, Georgian, Ukrainian, Azerbaijani, Turkish, Kazakh, and Uzbek traditional dishes very often.
We also have our ancestors' secret recipes. Most of them are from my granny's mother, she lived in the XVIII century.
Some of the dishes we cook are believed to have been cooked for 200-1000 years. They are meat, vegetable dishes, drinks, and bakery. I like cooking them but use modern kitchen appliances that make the process fast and easy.
There are so many people of different nationalities on myLot, and I would like to ask if someone in your family cooks traditional dishes of your nation using ancient recipes. Do you prefer new or old recipes? Do you use dishes of only your national cuisine?
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@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
19 Jun 18
I have occasionally tried cooking things I have found in old recipe books and I have my grandmother's recipe for a Christmas pudding (a boiled pudding of dried fruit and flour which is a traditional English dessert at Christmas) which is supposed to have been the recipe used at the court of King George I (18th Century).
The most 'exotic' traditional recipe I have tried was a 14th Century recipe called a 'blancmange' which was nothing like the sweet milk pudding we call blancmange today but was a dish of rice, milk and crayfish tails - in other words, rather like a fish risotto or pilaf. The word 'blancmange' is, of course, French in origin and I suspect that recipes like this were introduced to England from France from the time of William the Conqueror onwards.
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@MashaVickina (2184)
• Russian Federation
19 Jun 18
wow! Sounds very interesting
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@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
2 Jul 18
@babycats The 'blancmange' recipe?
The recipe I followed (with crayfish tails - or you could use prawns or any white fish, such as sea bass or sole) is below.
An English recipe for a blancmange with rice and fish or crayfish that can also be served in a modern menu.
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@LadyDuck (458012)
• Switzerland
19 Jun 18
Yes I do, I have very old cookbooks of Italian recipes that I try time by time. Some are interesting, some too rich four our more sedentary life. I make dishes of several different cuisines around the world, but I like the traditional food of my country (Italy).
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@MALUSE (69413)
• Germany
22 Jun 18
I cook dishes I learnt from my mother who learnt them from her mother and so on. But I doubt that the recipes are 'ancient' and go back hundreds of years. We have a higher standard of living now than the people before us and eat things they couldn't afford.
My husband is Italian, so we also eat Italian dishes.
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@MashaVickina (2184)
• Russian Federation
23 Jun 18
@MALUSE Oh, that's great! Yes, you are right, I agree.
@Jessabuma (31700)
• Baguio, Philippines
2 Jul 18
Wow that's interesting and this food on the picture looks delicious
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@jipsyjo30 (38)
• United States
14 Aug 18
Yes, occasionally I'll make Hungarian goulash or paprika chicken.
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@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
23 Jun 18
We just cook traditional English foods. There are no special recipes we follow. Most English food is quite bland although we do use some herbs. A lot of the older generation were not adventurous with food for example I never ate rice (savoury) until I turned 16 apart from as desserts.
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@saritflor (3914)
• Hungary
19 Jun 18
I love to prepare dishes from different cultural as long as it Vegan and yummy I will give it a try 
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@mlgen1037 (29886)
• Manila, Philippines
19 Jun 18
Hi Masha. I do not cook but my aunt and mother-in-law do use old recipes that I have no idea where it came from. They cook good food.
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