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"These pickled eggs taste just like the eggs that general stores used to sell! Add 1 cup beet juice if you'd like pink pickled eggs."

Ingredients: hard-boiled eggs, onions, salt...

"This is an easy sauce using cherry preserves, that is great served alone, or over latkes, chicken, etc. Adapted from Bon Appetit(Dec. 2001) A Russian recipe."

Ingredients: cherry preserves, unsweetened apple juice...

"Believe it or not this can be served as a side salad in a small bowl or mixed with greens. I like to have it as a condiment for your meat course or as an appetizer on crackers with liver pate or other meat. I haven't seen a vampire in my house so it must work!!!"

Ingredients: fresh lemon juice, garlic...

"Need something to add tang to a dish? Serve on top hot dogs, smoked sausage or along side beef or pork."

Ingredients: cider vinegar, Dijon mustard...

""International Food Evening" at Rangers one night. One of the others was given Russia as her country. This is what she brought in! It's very good, especially eaten with sponge fingers. The recipe specified a "wineglass" of brandy - I've assumed that the wine glass was 175ml. It can probably be used as a topping for that..."

Ingredients: double cream, nutmeg, lemons...

"This recipe came from a friend of my mom. Her friend indicated that the recipe came through her family via a farm in Iowa. Use the larger amount of sour cream for a richer sauce. I serve the sauce over egg noodles."

Ingredients: onions, salt and pepper...

"This recipe is from week one of my food blog, "Travel by Stove." I am attempting to cook one meal from every country in the world, starting with Abkhazia (a very small country near Georgia).

Adjika is a kind of condiment popular in several countries in that part of the world. I had a hard time finding an actual recipe for Abkhazian..."

Ingredients: cilantro, dill, jalapenos...

"Preserved melon with a hint of ginger. Probably one of the more unusual fruits to preserve, but delicious. Would make a special gift."

Ingredients: dried ginger, honeydews...

"This is fantastic to accompany roast poultry or game, or even lamb or pork. You can also try this marinade with other fruit, such as cherries, grapes, and plums."

Ingredients: cider vinegar, cinnamon sticks...

"A fantastic recipe to use with meat dishes, shrimp cocktails, cooked potatoes and on crackers as an appetizer. This recipe was passed on to me by my Russian Grandmother and it has remained the same without any changes for the last 100 plus years."

Ingredients: red beets, horseradish root...

"Horseradish sauces, both hot and cold, are basic to Russian cuisine. I like this one spread thickly on a ham I am smoking in my smoker."

Ingredients: canned beef broth, sour cream...

"I got this recipe from the Russian book in the Time Life Foods of the World series."

Ingredients: cider vinegar, cinnamon...

"This is an old favorite from my motherland. These raw cultured vegetables can be a good addition to your menu as you are transitioning to the raw food diet."

Ingredients: fresh dill, garlic, sea salt...

"I adapted this from a cookbook posted by MIR in the 1970's. I am not a big fan of tarragon, so I prefer dill pickles, but if you are a fan of tarragon, give these a try! Like dill pickles, these are very simple to make."

Ingredients: pickling cucumbers, fresh tarragon sprigs...