Treska s Sousom iz Vishen’ i Krasnovo Vina

In the fish section of her cookbook, Molokhovets devotes a passage of extensive praise to the cod. ‘All Northern peoples, nourishing themselves all year with this fish, stand out by virtue of their good health and by the absence of scrofula. One might say that it is the only food, apart from bread which, once one has got used to it, one never gets bored of, without which one could not live and which one would never exchange for any delicacies.’ For people who find cod less inspiring than sh