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PIROSHKY, Russian

Ingredients

Dough

• 1 cup quite warm water
• 1 cup milk
• 3 egg yolks
• 3 tbsp sugar
• ¼ tsp. salt
• ¼ lb. oleo or butter
• 4 cups flour
• 1 yeast cake

Filling

• 2 small onions, chopped
• ½ to 1 lb. ground beef
• Hard-boiled eggs

Preparation Instructions

Dough

Dissolve yeast in 1 cup warm water. Heat 1 cup milk to melt butter or oleo. Beat egg yolks and add sugar and salt. Add milk and oleo to the egg mixture, now add yeast and stir. Sift flour and add just enough to hold dough together so it can be rolled. Put dough in a war place to rise for 1 to 1 ½ hours.

Cook onions in butter, oleo or cooking oil until soft, add meat, salt, pepper and cook until meat is done. add chopped hard-boiled eggs. Let filling cool.

Now roll dough and cut into 4-inch rounds or squares, add a tablespoonful or more of filling to center of pieces of dough, roll up and pinch edges together. Fry in deep fat until golden brown.

Filling

Contributed by Mrs. Olga Petroff, 1950

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