The Immovable Feast. HAPPY NEW YEAR!

[merenzon]

The days of hunting down herring and bargaining for tangerines may be long gone, but, in the Russian mind, this is still what the perfect New Year’s Eve table looks like. S novym godom!

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Mors – homemade cranberry drink

[harsens_rob]

Wait, wait, wait...

You don't get to post 'homemade' and then not provide recipe!

:-)

Re: Mors – homemade cranberry drink

[merenzon]

You are right, thank you for pointing out!
I know we had it somewhere... Will post in a bit.

Re: Mors – homemade cranberry drink

[merenzon]

Cranberry Mors

Cranberry is a sacred berry for Russians, as it is a base for both a favorite alcoholic beverage (cranberry vodka, if you are wondering) and a delicious hangover remedy, the cranberry mors.

We'll tell you how to make the latter, and you'll thank us tomorrow. The recipe is deceptively simple, you'll be able to whip up a decent mors without any experience. The ingenious mors is another story: it requires improvisation, but we'll get to that.

You'll need:
1.5 liters of water (about 7 cups)
1 cup of cranberries
0.5 cup of sugar

Crush the cranberries with a wooden spoon (we are not sure why the spoon has to be wooden, but the 1901 recipe book insists on it). Drain the juice and add water to it. Boil the mix. After it has been boiling for about 5 minutes, add sugar, let it boil for a couple of minutes and then cool down. You have yourself a mors.

Now, you can be creative with it, by adding honey, orange zests and anything else which is left in your fridge.

Re: Mors – homemade cranberry drink

[harsens_rob]

Seems deceptively simple - what's the catch? lol

But seriously, I do wonder if there is something different about this drink than just running to the store for Cranberry Juice... and Cranberry Vodka sounds delicious.

[lizphiz]

Soviet champagne is The Best Thing Ever. Now that I can find both that and Русский Cтандарт stateside, I don't have to pack my suitcase full of booze every time I go anywhere near Russia. :)

[darussianchick]

this is lovely. it's hard to explain why to foreigners but there's just something very Russian about it that pulls at the heart strings

=]

[dictator88]

I can make a very good Borscht, but I am unsure how to make this beet salad that Russian friends in NYC used to feed me. I loved that stuff!

[dictator88]

Cranberries are very New England. Ocean Spray juices are from New England. Here in Mexico, cranberries are very exotic and rare. In the States, vodka and cranberry juice is called a Cape Cod, after the area in Massachusetts.