Karelian cuisine

Karelian cuisine is the national cuisine of the Karelian people. Its main distinguishing feature (a one -story with Finnish and Estonian traditional cuisines) is a rare presence of meat in it, an abundance of fish and use in most cases rye and barley flour.
Karelian is distinguished by a more extensive "forest" table from Estonian cuisine, that is, a large number of mushroom dishes, forest berries (blueberries, cranberries, cloudberries, blueberries, strawberries), a slightly smaller type of dairy table (although all the basic dairy dishes, Including fish with milk, repeated).
It is interesting to note how the original Russian pancakes on the Karelian soil became pancakes filled with some kind of porridge cooked in milk, with butter. Or, for example, the Shangi, widespread from the North-West to the Urals, are called gates and are considered a national dish of the Karelian and Finnish peoples.
The book not only tells about the history and features of Karelian cuisine, but also give numerous recipes, which will undoubtedly be useful in the house of every mistress