Ukrainian cookbook

I thought it would be nice little gift out of the blue for my brother's wife. I looked for cookbooks on Amazon but nothing looked good. I bought one from Abebooks listed as new and had it sent to her.

My brother wrote back.

"I haven't heard her laugh so hard in weeks. A real humdinger ending to a bad day."

Maybe that was it. The day was bad all the way through so something slightly amusing at the end gets exaggerated way beyond reason. Showing the power of the mind doing its realignment, resetting, function so you can go to bed happy.

I cannot trust my brother's spelling either so that confounds comprehension further, he said thanks for the laugh, she told him it "brings back good childhood memories to me" for example something they called "tripping," (sp?) that's supposed to be "sparticotch" (sp?) 1 litre of vodka, saffron, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and carnations. LOL LOL LOL

I bet they meant cardamon.

I have no idea what that is for. Sounds like some kind of punch.

Another is a jelly recipe. One kilo pigs feet, onion, garlic, carrots, parsley roots and salt and pepper, Cook overnight. Delicious. Must have for Christmas. More childhood memories. Only reason Americans do not have this is because we don't have pigs feet.

Lies!

I saw pigs feet at King Soopers freezer and at Oliver's Butcher. And I think that jelly is probably aspic.

Ukrainian omelet: 8 eggs, 300 grams potatoes, 250 grams ham, 100 of boiled beans, 35 grams of daisies.

I can see why they're laughing. They probably meant scallions. or maybe garlic flowers.

Amazon does have one review, only one star by one unhappy customer who writes, the book is actually small, more of a booklet. The reviewer feels sorry for the author because the recipes look genuine and appear to be good work but the translation looks like it is done by Google.

What does "1/2 a glass of desi" mean?

And what does "extinguish the ingredient" mean?

I should have used the "Look Inside" feature on Amazon. I would have seen for myself how ineptly the pamphlet-book is translated.

It is good to wash out fat beef (breast cut) cold water. To make from the inside over edges cut. To fill in with cold water and on strong fire to bring to the boil. When water begins to boil, to scum, to reduce and continue to cook fire at very weak boiling, periodically removing (but without throwing out) from broth surface fat. To take out ready meat from broth, to remove bones, to put in other ware, to salt slightly, To add there a little broth, to close cover and to put on fire.  

Oh well. At least they had a good depressurizing laugh.