I finally drank birch water. [View All]

I finally had someone with me when near the Russian grocery today who was muscular enough to carry home a jug of birch water. So we decided to make a supper feast from the store. Here's what we bought:

a big smoked whitefish
a big jar of marinated tomatoes and cucumbers
three kinds of Russian cheeses
three kinds of salamis
a bag of frozen pork pelmeni (dumplings)
a jar of rose hip marmalade
a bunch of fresh dill
a loaf of heavy rye bread
a jar of birch water
cucumbers

The birch water tastes like lightly sugared water. I could not discern any other flavor. A bit disappointing, but now I know.

The whitefish was delicious. I liked two of the salamis, but the other one I couldn't even get near the smell of it. The pelmeni were very much like pot stickers.

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