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 The recipe was being passed on from one household to another although, of course there wasn’t one ‘master recipe”. Every cook made it her own. It was impossible to have any sort of celebration without Medovik crowning the meal.

It was so common that after a while it didn’t seem special anymore. I am glad I re-discovered this treasure because despite its simplicity of ingredients and the method of preparation the end result is far from plain.

Ingredients

Honey in Russian is med, so you can expect honey to be one of the dominant ingredients in this cake. Although only 4 tablespoons is used, they add a very rich, caramel like flavour to the cake. This is due to a high quality, flavourful honey that’s been traditionally used in Russia.

My grandfather came for a beekeeping family and as a child I always remember seeing a large 3 litre jar of raw honey being stored in a kitchen cupboard. So using great tasting honey is the key to the unforgettable taste of this honey cake. 

The rest of the ingredients are very common for cakes. Butter, sugar, flour, baking soda and vanilla extract make thin, cookie like layers of Medovik.

They are softened with a cream filling that is one part whipping cream and one part sour cream mixed with sugar and vanilla. Sometimes a filling made with butter and sweetened condensed milk is used. I however, find it too sweet. 

How to make Tort Medovik

Although the ingredients for this honey cake are quite common for a cake, the method of preparation is quite unorthodox.

Cake Layers

Instead of making cake batter and baking it in cake pans this honey cake recipe calls for preparing cookie dough, then baking the layers one by one on cookie sheets in a preheated oven. 

Baking the thin layers is the lengthiest process according to this method but trust me, it produces the most stellar results. This cake is so impressive that after it got discovered and reproduced by one San Francisco bakery, it developed a cult following! 

After the layers are baked they are cut into round circles or rectangles. As you can see in the photos, I went with rectangles.

When Medovik is made for large gatherings it’s not uncommon to make it into a large rectangular 4 layer cake instead of a tall 8 layer one. Both are authentic and equally delicious. 

Honey Cake Filling

Beat sour cream or creme fraiche with whipping cream, sugar and vanilla until sugar is dissolved and it’s doubled in volume. Fill all 8 cake layers except for the top and the sides. 

Medovik Frosting

Once again I’ve changed the frosting as in the original Medovik. The filling above is used for the outside of the cake as well and later coated with the cake crumbs. Since I decided to go crumb free, I’ve used a mascarpone frosting similar to the one I’ve used for my Naked Cake.

Remember Oleksandr Oles 1931

 Remember

Oleksandr Oles
1931

When fighting invaders for the right to exist,
Ukraine was living, suffering, and dying,
Sympathy – all it was waiting for,
But Europe was silent.

When bleeding to death in an unequal fight,
And crying its eyes out in anguish,
Ukraine was waiting for help from its friends,
But Europe was silent.

When chained and exhausted and being enslaved,
Wounded Ukraine was screaming in terror,
When even rocks were moved by its pain,
But Europe was silent.

When gathering harvest soaked in blood,
And giving it all to the ruthless tyrant,
Dying from famine, Ukraine lost its voice,
But Europe was silent.

When Ukraine cursed its life, that turned into a grave,
Filled with endless death and violence,
When even the devil was crying in grief,
– Europe was silent.

Lina Kostenko (1930-present) – is a Ukrainian poet, journalist, writer, and leading member of the Sixtiers poetry movement in Ukraine, which was against Soviet totalitarianism and focused on protecting Ukrainian culture and language. Kostenko’s work was not published for many years due to her pro-Ukrainian views and activism. Many members of the Sixtiers movement were arrested, sent to prison camps, and killed. Despite everything, Lina Kostenko continued to write and is considered one of the most prominent Ukrainian poets.

 

Soviet Refuses Permission to Manufacture Matzo in Moscow

March 21, 1933

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Permission for opening a single Matzo bakery in Moscow, which the organized Jewish community of Moscow had planned to erect on the site of the Jewish cemetery is not forthcoming. The application was made some time ago and it had been hoped that the Soviet authorities would accede to the request.

The rejection of the application for permission to manufacture Matzo here threatens Russian Jewry with a Matzoless Passover. The authorities base their refusal not on anti-religious discrimination, but on the decision of the Moscow Soviet to grant no patents for bakeries run by private individuals, such as the organized Jewish community is at present considered to be.

It is believed, however, that the real cause of the refusal is the agitation carried on in the Yiddish Communist press against Jewish institutions abroad for devoting so much attention to the condition of starvation of Russian Jewry. The Yiddish Communist press has stigmatized the campaign for the provision of Matzo for Russian Jewry as part of the foreign campaign for intervention aaginst the Soviets. It demands an intensification of the fight against religion.

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What force moves the nations? From war and peace

 What force moves the nations?

Biographical historians and historians of separate nations understand this force as a power inherent in heroes and rulers. In their narration events occur solely by the will of a Napoleon, and Alexander, or in general of the persons they describe. The answers given by this kind of historian to the question of what force causes events to happen are satisfactory only as long as there is but one historian to each event. As soon as historians of different nationalities and tendencies begin to describe the same event, the replies they give immediately lose all meaning, for this force is understood by them all not only differently but often in quite contradictory ways. One historian says that an event was produced by Napoleon’s power, another that it was produced by Alexander’s, a third that it was due to the power of some other person. Besides this, historians of that kind contradict each other even in their statement as to the force on which the authority of some particular person was based. Thiers, a Bonapartist, says that Napoleon’s power was based on his virtue and genius. Lanfrey, a Republican, says it was based on his trickery and deception of the people. So the historians of this class, by mutually destroying one another’s positions, destroy the understanding of the force which produces events, and furnish no reply to history’s essential question.

Writers of universal history who deal with all the nations seem to recognize how erroneous is the specialist historians’ view of the force which produces events. They do not recognize it as a power inherent in heroes and rulers, but as the resultant of a multiplicity of variously directed forces. In describing a war or the subjugation of a people, a general historian looks for the cause of the event not in the power of one man, but in the interaction of many persons connected with the event.

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