Value Meals on the Volga: Sharing our Heritage with New Generations

Eating Traditions from Mariental, Russia

By Anna Dalhaimer Bartkowski

2006, 112 pages, softcover.

The Germans from Russia Heritage Collection announces its latest Volga German-Russian cookbook, Value Meals on the Volga: Sharing our Heritage with New Generations. Bartkowski is also the author of Maggie Visits Grandpa and Maggie Visits Argentina.

Anna Dalhaimer Bartowski compiled this cookbook in efforts to preserve the eating traditions from Mariental, Russia for the next generation. In the introduction, Bartowski writes, “These recipes guide you with clear directions and step-by-step photos so whether you are a gourmet chef or a novice cook, you can make delectable delights in your kitchen.”

The cookbook contains an introduction; a preparation and planning section; three main recipe sections: soups, main dishes, and desserts; family history; and appendices. The family history section includes scanned images from the Thalheimer Family Bible.

Recipes found in this beautiful cookbook include Butter Cookies, Butterhorns, Broda, Cottage Cheese Mauldasha, Dumplings, Fleish & Kraut Barok, Grebel, Green Bean Soup, Kuchen & Flat Grebel, Pink Peppermint Cookies, Rice Glaceyer Soup, and Sour Cream Mauldasha.

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Review by Allison Thompson