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.

Anna Dalhaimer Bartowski compiled this full-color 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.

Review by Allison Thompson