In order to show Stalin as human as possible to the people, new stories about his achievements are also being created, and they are joined by the claim that it was the great leader who came up with the recipe for rasola – this dish is called Olivier salad in Russia. Although their connection with Russia is indeed much older, the recipes can also be found in cookbooks in Latvian, published before the Bolshevik coup of 1917.
A group of members judged the salad
Several Russian internet channels claim that documents have been found in the Kremlin archives, which prove that Stalin personally invented the recipe for rasola in 1949, because he “wanted to give the citizens of the USSR a dish that would symbolize the spirit of the age and would be available to all citizens of the country”. This culinary version has also been supported by the historian Eduards Radzinskis, whose television programs were once very popular in Russia.
He claims: “Contrary to the stereotype of Stalin’s authoritarian methods of running the country, he discussed virtually all of his ideas with his associates, and so it was with salad. One cold winter evening, a group of friends came to the Kremlin – Beria, Malenkov, as well as Khrushchev, and they also discussed this new dish with Stalin. As is known, Stalin was an opponent of the cult of personality and refused to name this salad after himself (as suggested by a group of members).
Stalin also rejected the name Victory Salad, because then how will you eat victory, the names Soviet and Red Army were also rejected. “Then Stalin remembered his friendly relationship with French President Charles de Gaulle, who had a dog named Olivier, and decided to give this name to the new food,” Radzinski claims. Initially, the recipe included kale, but after consultation, it was decided to replace it with green peas.
The true origin
In Putin’s Russia, from time to time, he tries to write down all the inventions and even bigger achievements for himself. How was it in reality?
As time goes by, Stalin’s “feats” are now being praised for success in gastronomy (Photo: Shutterstock)
In 1860, the French chef Lissien Olivier opened the Hermitage restaurant in Moscow together with a rich Russian merchant, Yakov Pegov. It was quite expensive, but it quickly became popular and was popular among the wealthy.
This is also where Olivier’s salad, or rasol, was born, which originally had a completely different name and appearance. Originally, this dish was served under the name Mayonnaise with game – it was a sauce of partridge and flounder meat, boiled tongue, crayfish necks and caviar, topped with slices of boiled potatoes, gherkins and eggs together with a leafy salad.
The dish was very popular, but once Olivier noticed that many visitors did not engage in aesthetic enjoyment before enjoying it, but simply mixed everything together with a fork into one mass. Then he also decided to serve this dish already mixed, the guests also appreciated it, and Olivier’s salad took a permanent place on the restaurant’s menu.
Cheap sausage instead of game
In 1883, Olivier passed away, after him the restaurant changed several owners, but the salad remained on the menu. The restaurant was temporarily closed at the start of the wars and after the Bolshevik coup, but reopened during the NEPA (New Economic Policy) in 1924, when limited private business was allowed in the Soviet Union for a short time.
Olivier’s salad also had a place on the new menu, but under the name Capital salad, and for obvious reasons, all the expensive game ingredients were gone, replaced by boiled chicken. When chicken meat also became scarce in the USSR, boiled sausage began to be used instead.
In the USSR, this dish gained wide popularity in the sixties of the 20th century, because only then did the first industrially produced mayonnaise in 200-gram jars appear in the country.
There are other, less popular versions of the history of rasol, but in them, too, nothing has been found so far about the role of Stalin. This is another version of “the tastiest Soviet-era plumber in the world” – by the way, it was produced using US technology and initially with equipment imported from this imperialist country.
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2024-01-16 02:50:00
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