This book contains surprisingly many delicious recipes of traditional Russian cuisine. All recipes were collected literally bit by bit. The author, the famous culinary specialist Galina Ivanovna Poskrebysheva, deciphered monastic records, old collections of recipes, Russian cookbooks. Cabbage soup, stews, hodgepodge and kulesha, porridge in pots, meat and fish dishes: lamb side with porridge, crucian carp in sour cream and solid - everything is exactly as our ancestors prepared. Dishes with kvass - okroshka and botvinya, dishes from berries - pastila, jam, sbiten, dishes from flour and tolokna - noodles and jelly, as well as pastries: pies, kalachi, saiki, pancakes, juices, shangs and wickets.