Here is a recipe for Draniki, which was sent to us by a reader from Belarus. It is easy to make and very, very tasty.

Ingredients
– potatoes
– salt
(No eggs, onions. Just potatoes and salt!)

Instructions
peel potatoes,
grate them (using a small grater),
add salt.
Then brown the Draniki, as with ordinary pancakes (fine pancakes) in a hot frying pan (add some vegetable oil).
Serve hot and with sour cream.

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Misako sent us this recipe for banana pie, a Brazilian dessert. It looks delicious.

Ingredients
240 grams wheat flour
320 grams sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
2 beaten eggs
250 ml milk
5 tablespoons margarine (melted)
10 sliced bananas

Instructions
– Mix the dry ingredients (wheat flour, sugar and baking powder).
– Mix the eggs, milk and margarine in another bowl.
– Grease a baking pan. Pour into it alternate layers of the dry ingredient mixture and the sliced bananas.
– Pour the egg mixture on the top.
– Bake in a slow oven for 50 minutes.

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INGREDIENTS
2 cups diced carrots
1 orange
1 T butter
2 T orange marmalade

METHOD
1 Put juice and zest from one orange in sauce pan.

2 Add carrots and water to cover and bring to boil.

3 Cover and simmer until just tender.

4 Drain thoroughly and add butter and marmalade.

5 Mix until butter and marmalade are melted and well mixed.

WORDS
zest: 1 the skin of an orange, lemon, or lime. 2 enthusiasm, energy. 

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INGREDIENTS
2 pounds of potatoes
1 medium to large onion
2 eggs
1 tablespoon flour
salt and pepper

INSTRUCTIONS
– grate the potatoes and the onion.
– beat the eggs and mix them in with the potatoes and onion.
– add the flour, salt and pepper. Let it stand for a few minutes.
– heat oil in a pan.
– form the potato mixture into thin pancakes and cook until both sides are brown.

Serve with sour cream.
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This recipe is for a dessert from Hungary. If you have a recipe that you would like to share with the world, then please send it to cards@ahhoy.org.

Ingredients

1 1/2 liters milk
4 eggs
150 grams sugar
1/2 vanilla pod (or one package of vanilla sugar)
1 tablespoon flour

Instructions

1. Beat egg whites with three tablespoons of sugar until firm.
2. Bring the milk to a slow boil.
3. Place the egg mixture into the milk with a wet tablespoon.
4. Turn the eggs (islands) over after 30 seconds.
5. Take the islands out of the milk with a strainer.
6. Put the vanilla into the milk.
7. Place in the remaining sugar into the egg yolks and then mix in the flour.
8. Mix some of the milk into the egg yolks, flour and sugar. Then pour it back into the milk.
9. Stir constantly. DO NOT BOIL.
10. Add the islands when the milk begins to thicken. Turn off the heat. SERVE COLD.

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