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Ivan the Terrible - Feeding the Evil Russian Tsar

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@TastingHistory Creator 11 months ago Pinned

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@mirasr64 11 months ago

Im russian, so a few remarks. Pirozki are very popular still, but dont use olive oil, it was never widely available in Russia throughout history. Sunflower is the most used oil for everything among everyone. You absolutely can bake your pirozki, but you can also fry them in oil which taste better in my opinion. You can fill them with pretty everything, my favorite filling is mashed potatoes with mushrooms.

@CatsBreadBikes 11 months ago (edited)

My favorite little quip is that Ivan the Terrible was grandson to Ivan the Great, and thus Vasili III (son of the great and father of the terrible) is referred to as Vasili the Adequate

@dogmaticpyrrhonist543 11 months ago

The English disgust at "they ate food with flavour, how horrid, like the Dutch" is so hilarious.

@marcuscarana9240 11 months ago

Unrelated topic. But I had a friend named John Ivan. Ivan is the Slavic form of the name John. So his name was literally just John John.

@Aisaaax 10 months ago

Some pierozhki fillings to try:
1) Cabbage (same but not cooked as deep, just to soft, not brown) + hard boiled egg
2) Hard boiled egg + green onion
3) minced meat or chicken + par-boiled potato + onion. Season that one well.
4) mashed potato + mushrooms or meat.
5) apples and sugar + cinnamon
6) salmon + onion + rice (can be boneless white fish too)
7) cheese and ham

And in general anything else your heart desires.

@Lanis-n5g 10 months ago

Russian here. Just one remark. The cabbage should be in thin strips not squares, it DOES make a difference don't you laugh at me. Other than that it's amazing. Also you can fill it with minced meat. And also you can fry them. Try that it's amazing

@agimagi2158 11 months ago

I love that you give examples of what happened in other parts of Europe around his reigns time. That's something I've always struggled in school in history lessons. Everything was just floating around without any connecting points to each other

@garrettmcalister3201 11 months ago

22:33 not the British complaining about spices again 🥀

@VinsCool 11 months ago

Tsar Ivan really did the "I didn't even like you anyway" move to Queen Elisabeth.
Some things just never change.

@bigsister9354 11 months ago (edited)

There is a Soviet-era comedy film, «Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future», that is very famous in Russia. In it, a young scientist creates a time machine that opens a portal to the palace of Ivan the Terrible. The tsar himself ends up in the scientist's apartment, and his neighbor, who looks incredibly like the tsar, ends up in the palace. Together with a neighbor, a cunning thief who wanted to rob one of the apartments in the same building also gets there. I highly recommend watching it. The royal feast is shown there too :)

@theBaron0530 11 months ago

Pirozhki aren't pierogi, that is true. But the names are cognates, from the same root, and it's interesting to see how the word evolved in the Slavic languages, and is used for things that are similar though not the same.

@平教經 11 months ago

As far as numbers go, he executed way less people than "not evil" Elizabeth I.

@nirname-r4y 11 months ago

Many guys claimed that sunflower oil is the most widespread in Russia. It is now, in the 16th century the main source of oil for cooking probably was lard or some other types of vegetable oils such as hemp oil or linseed oil. Industrial processing of sunflowers as a source of oil started in the 19th century.

@Asteria-kc9op 11 months ago

For anyone curious on the choice of cooking oil - the oil most commonly used in the Eastern Slavic countries today is sunflower. It sometimes even comes in a more clarified variety for frying and a less clarified - for salad dressings.

@saltysuit 11 months ago

As a Russian person, I'm impressed by how authentic and beautiful Max pirozhkis look like, both for the dough and cabbage filling. There is also a tradition, perhaps unwritten, to play with different length and roundness of them for each type - savoury with meat, no meat, sweet etc. I guess it varies from family to family, in mine I remember having almost round ones with meat, more oval for non-meat savoury like Max did. My babushka was a fan of making different kinds of them at once when she still lived the village that completely died out recently. There was a huge white furnace in the middle of the house, and she fired it up with wood to bake pirozhkis

@morreiy 11 months ago

As someone who's family is from russia, I can highly suggest anyone who plans to make these try the sweet version too! Those are made instead with an apple filling, sliced into small cubes and mixed with some sugar and cinnamon, and they're definitely my favourite. often when making piroshki we actually make several different sorts and bake them all at once, so there's some variety for everyone to choose from.

@cyberman486 11 months ago

As someone who grew up with Russian babushka, I can confirm those look like a real deal. Makes me feel nostalgic just seeing them.

@dimitriosfotopoulos3689 11 months ago

I'm part Russian, part Greek, and my mom used to make these for holidays. Out of her 5 kids I was the only one who was food picky, and avoided most meat, especially red meat, so in addition to the standard pork or beef / onion piroshki, my mother learned to make the braised cabbage version as well. She also made pelmeni, and made sure to include the mushroom variety. I loved them. It's been well over a decade since she passed and I have not had one since, but I sure do remember them and her efforts to keep her one food-finicky kid properly fed. Not an easy task when you have 5 of them... She also made the best borsht anywhere, and if I could, I would have it every day.

@Aidenfirewing3470 11 months ago

I honestly think Ivan would've been alright if his first wife survived. She seemed to be the only person in his life that made him happy. But it's hard to say.