007 Food: Black tea, rye bread, jam and syrniki

Food: Black tea, rye bread, jam and doughy cheese pancakes or syrniki
Bond book appearance: With a Mind to Kill (2022). Bond eats this kind of breakfast with Katya Leonova on the Red Arrow train while traveling to Leningrad
Experience of 007 Travelers: At home

“There had been a marked change in her behaviour since the attack on the train. When the two of them had woken up at half past six in the morning, she had slipped into the bathroom to get dressed and hadn’t referred to the incident when they sat down to breakfast: black tea, rye bread, jam and doughy cheese pancakes or syrniki – another Russian word she offered for Bond to learn. None of the officials or the other passengers seemed aware that anything had taken place during the night. Another couple had taken the table where the two men had been sitting.”

Anthony Horowitz: “With a Mind to Kill” (2022)

Recipe for Syrniki: (vikalinka.com)

INGREDIENTS:

• 450g/1 lbs well-drained ricotta cheese
• 2 eggs large
• 2 tbsp oil
• 4 tbsp sugar
• 80g/3/4 cup flour
• ½ tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp vanilla

INSTRUCTIONS:

• Combine cheese, eggs, sugar, oil, flour, baking powder and vanilla in a medium size bowl and mix all the ingredients with a hand mixer until you get a homogenous mass- no longer than 2-3 minutes. The mixture will be very sticky. 
• Put the non-stick or cast iron frying pan on the stove on medium heat and add 3 tbsp of oil to it.
• Dust a clean work surface with some flour. Take a regular soup spoon and start scooping the mixture from the bowl. Put it directly on the floured surface and roll it in the flour, then flatten it with your palm to make it into a patty. Continue the process with the rest of your cheese mixture until it’s all gone. You should get about 14 patties.
• Before you start frying your syrniki make sure the oil in the frying pan is very hot by sprinkling a bit of flour into it. If it sizzles it’s hot enough. Fry the syrniki the same way you would pancakes. When you turn them over they should puff up a bit. The flour coating will make the outside slightly crispy while the mostly cheese filling will taste light and delicious.
• Dust syrniki with icing sugar as the final touch and serve them with your favourite jam or a fruit sauce

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