What Are Pancakes

Pancakes (small thick pancakes) are a quick breakfast or dessert option, known in Ancient Greece since the 5th century BCE. In the Middle Ages they were popular in England, and today pancakes are loved all over the world.

They’re made from basic ingredients: milk, an egg, flour, baking powder, a bit of oil, salt, and sugar. The whole process takes about 15–20 minutes including frying.

Unlike classic Russian oladushki, pancake batter is thicker and more uniform, and the pancakes come out even, soft, and fluffy. They’re usually fried without extra oil, because the oil is already in the batter.

This recipe is designed to be simple: no mixer, and no scales if you don’t want them. You can mix everything with a regular spoon in one bowl and use the same spoon to portion the batter onto the pan.

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So, I decided to stew a rabbit. After a bit of trial and error, I came up with the most reliable recipe.

We cut up the rabbit. Put it in a pot with three onions, two carrots, peppercorns, a bay leaf, pour in one cup of water, and add two tablespoons of oil.

Boil-fry

1. Let it come to a boil. First, bring everything to a boil over medium-high heat.
2. Once it starts boiling, lower the heat to minimum. The liquid should just barely simmer, not boil too hard.
3. We stew for about 1.5 hours. After about an hour, poke the meat with a knife — if it’s soft and goes through easily, it’s almost done. If it’s still tough, leave it for another 30 minutes.
4. After an hour, we add salt (3-4 pinches). Don’t salt it right away — wait until the meat has softened a bit, it’ll stay juicier that way.
5. Ten minutes before the end, add 2–3 crushed cloves of garlic for aroma.

Check for doneness:

The rabbit is ready when the meat is tender and easily comes off the bone. The sauce should be slightly cloudy, golden, and aromatic.

Side dishes:

You can just grab some flatbread 🙂 But we usually eat rabbit with:

• Potatoes — the perfect match.
• Green beans — the most balanced choice.
• Rice — long-grain.
• Buckwheat — if you want something more filling, homestyle.
• Pasta — if you’re going for a proper heavy dinner.

Enjoy, little piglets!

On a trip, no oven around, but craving some tasty and healthy bread without all that chemical stuff? DO LIKE ME! Whip up simple SOFT flatbreads in a pan. Basically pitas) You can munch them as is, or turn them into mini-pizzas, or just cheesy pitas )

Ingredients 🍳

• 1.5 cups of flour (~250 g)
• half a cup of warm water (~150 ml)
• 1 tbsp vegetable oil (any kind, but I only had extra virgin lol)
• 1 tsp sugar (I used brown)
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp dry yeast (or 10 g fresh)

How to make 👩‍🍳

1. In a pot or bowl, mix WARM water, sugar, and yeast. Don’t overmix, just enough to dissolve the sugar. Leave it for 5 minutes until a little foam shows up on top (like in a cup of tea).
2. Throw in the salt (stir), add the spoon of oil (stir again), and start sprinkling in the flour. At first, you can stir with a spoon, but once all the flour is in-knead with your hands until the dough gets soft and stops sticking to your paws.
3. If the dough turns out too stiff (hard, dry)-add a little more warm water (a spoon at a time) until it softens. And if it’s sticking too much-just dust in a bit more flour.
4. Cover the dough with a lid (leaving a small gap for CO₂ to escape) + a towel on top, and let it rest (rise) for about an hour.
5. After an hour, punch it down and leave it for another hour (makes the bread softer).
6. Divide into 6–8 pieces (depending on your pan size, one should fit at the bottom), roll into balls, and flatten (hands work fine if you don’t have a rolling pin) into flatbreads about half a centimeter thick.
7. Heat a pan on medium heat, no oil needed.
8. Fry each flatbread for 2–3 minutes on each side (until they puff up and get soft inside). They’re like-pop!-and suddenly inflate like they’re about to fly to Mars.

YAY! PITAS READY!

p.s.
Tip from the badger… Too lazy to deal with yeast? No worries. Just flour + water + a pinch of salt – and go. They’ll be way tougher, but still edible )

So, what’s up, BROS? Get ready for pancakes so good your neighbors will run over just to sniff your kitchen vent! 🥞🔥

Honestly, it’s super simple. You only need a couple of basics: flour, milk, and sugar. And don’t forget some sour cream on the side 😋

Ingredients 🍳

• Milk — 300 ml (one big mug) 🥛
• Flour — same big mug
• Eggs — 2 pcs (double strike!) 🥚🥚
• Sugar — 2 tbsp with a heap (or 3 flat if life’s a pain) 🍬
• A pi-i-inch of salt 🧂
• Baking powder — 7 g (that’s like ¾ of a packet) ✨
• Vegetable oil — any kind, just a splash so the pan feels nice and moist

Step-by-step cooking 👩‍🍳

1. Dump flour in a bowl. Pour in milk. Whisk it up with a fork, but better with a FANCY whisk.
2. Add the rest gradually and mix. If you’re too lazy — seriously, just throw it all in a bowl and stir. It’ll be tasty anyway 😎
3. IMPORTANT!!! The batter should be like sour cream. Too runny? Toss in MORE flour. Too thick? Hit it with milk!
4. Heat the pan, splash a lil’ oil.
5. Scoop the batter with a spoon (1 PANCAKE = 1 HEAPED SPOON) and fry a couple of minutes per side 😀 they puff up instantly!
6. Medium heat only! Golden yellow crust = perfect, brow In my photo the overcooked one ended up in the foreground, lol)
7. Stack them up in a bowl and cover right away! Don’t let them cool down and dry out, clumsyhead!

And now, pay attention: with sour cream, jam, or honey — these are no longer just pancakes, this is a portal to a parallel universssse 🚀 LET’S GOOOO!

Prague cake is a chocolate and biscuit mood, moist and juicy, with cream on the inside and dark chocolate on the outside. To make a prague cake at home you will need to make four pieces: 1) the chocolate and butter sponge, 2) the sponge custard, 3) the chocolate cream, and 4) the chocolate filling.

Ingredients

Chocolate and butter biscuit:

• sugar 150;
• vanilla sugar (pinch for flavor);
• flour 150g;
• baking powder 6g (half a packet);
• 6 eggs (C0);
• cocoa 2 tablespoons;
• butter 40 g;
• pinch of salt.

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Homemade dumplings – what could be tastier? It seems that only a professional cook can make the dough and stuffing for dumplings. Today we will make dumplings ourselves, it is not as difficult as it may seem at first glance. The most delicious dumplings have a filling from a mixture of two kinds of meat – pork and beef. For the dough we need flour, eggs, sunflower oil and water.

Ingredients for the dumpling dough:

• flour 500 g;
• water 250 ml;
• eggs 2 pcs;
• salt 1 teaspoon;
• sunflower oil 2 tablespoons.

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