Ruddy pies are the decoration of each table. Russian cuisine knows dozens and even hundreds of variations of pies, both sweet and savory, for example, lemon pie filling, and unsweetened, with fillings from meat, mushrooms, fish and vegetables. Pies with filling were a mandatory dish for any feast.
Fish cake
Ingredients: For the dough:
- 3 cups flour (about 500 g)
- 1 cup of milk
- 0.5 cups of vegetable oil or
- 100 g of butter or margarine
- 1 tbsp. Sahara
- 1 tsp salt
- Yeast, fresh - 20 g
For filling:
- Rice cooked until half cooked - 1 glass
- Fish boiled - 300-400 g
- Egg boiled -2-3 pieces.
- Onions - 1 pc.
Preparation: Products for filling fill in advance. Eggs finely chopped. Fish to disassemble, carefully remove all the bones. Rice boil until half cooked. Cut onion and fry in vegetable oil until golden brown. The second option - finely chopped, scalded with boiling water and marinated for 5-10 minutes in vinegar or lemon juice. Knead the dough. To do this, heat the milk to 35-40C. Stir the yeast with a spoon, add sugar, pour the milk and stir. Give them a few minutes to activate. During this time, sift flour into a deep bowl, and if using margarine or butter - melt it and cool it. Active yeast pour into the flour and begin to knead the dough. Add the oil. The dough should leave rather dense, but elastic. If necessary, you can add a little flour. The process of kneading the dough should take at least 15 minutes. It is because of this initially sticky dough will be smooth, elastic, a little wet. Ready to put the dough in heat for 30-40 minutes. When it doubles in size, crumple and let it go again. Approached dough is divided into two unequal parts. Piece a little roll in a rectangle and put it in a baking dish with bumpers. Put the filling on the dough: first rice, then fish, onions, eggs. The second part of the test roll out and cover the cake top. Oven to warm up to 180C. Bake the cake until done, about 40 minutes. To get a ruddy crust, you can grease the top of the cake with milk or whipped yolk (before being sent to the oven).
Cake with meat filling
Pies with a filling at one time you can cook a few - for a basis to take a universal dough, and prepare the fillings different. Ingredients:
- Minced meat (better mix of pork + beef) - 300 g
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Mushrooms champignons - 200 g
- Breadcrumbs - 5 tbsp.
- Milk or kefir - 2 tbsp.
- Yeast dough - 700 g
Preparation: Knead the dough according to the recipe above. Prepare the filling. Cut the onions finely and fry in oil, add the mince to the onions and carefully mix it, so that there are no lumps. Stew until done. Wash the champignons and cut them into plates. Fry for a few minutes in a separate bowl. From the dough roll an oblong flat cake 2 cm thick. Sprinkle with breadcrumbs. To lay out in the middle the ready forcemeat, preliminary mixed with kefir (it will help to keep a meat juice), to distribute almost on all length of a flat cake. On the ground lay a layer of mushrooms. Sprinkle with breadcrumbs. Raise the long edges of the tortillas and connect them from above, protect them. Raise and tie both ends of the resulting loaf to completely hide the filling. Cover the cake with a towel and leave to proof for about 20 minutes. Preheat the oven to 180C. bake a cake for about 35-40 minutes, until a ruddy crust. 
Apple pie
Ingredients:
- 300 g of wheat flour
- 2 tablespoons Sahara
- 1 egg
- 100 g of butter
- A pinch of salt
- 4-5 large sweet and sour apples or apple jam (jam)
- 2-3 tablespoons Sahara
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 0.5 tsp ground cardamom
Preparation: Prepare a short dough. Cold oil rub with sugar, salt and flour until the state of small crumbs. Drive the egg in, mix everything. If the dough is too steep, add a few spoonfuls of cold water. Roll the ball out of the dough and place it in the fridge for half an hour. During this time, prepare the filling. Wash apples, cut in half and remove the core. Slice thin slices. Sprinkle with lemon juice so that it does not darken. Mix sugar with cinnamon and cardamom. Form the diameter of 22-23 cm grease with oil, sprinkle with flour, mango or breadcrumbs, put into it ¾ of the whole dough. Align, form the sides. Put the lobules of apples on the dough evenly. Sprinkle with sugar mixture. Grind the rest of the dough on a large grater over top of the filling. To rub it is necessary directly above the form with a pie. Preheat the oven to 180C. Bake the cake for about 30 minutes, until the filling is ready and the golden color of the top layer. Serve with hot tea on an overcast evening. Have a nice evening!
Lemon pie
With the same test, you can prepare and lemonpie. Lemon filling - sounds a bit unexpected too, right? However, this is a very successful combination: sweet dough and sweet and sour spicy stuffing. How to prepare a lemon filling Ingredients:
- 3 lemons
- 200 g of sugar
Preparation: Wash lemons in hot water. Cut into slices (can be peeled) and remove bones. Mix with sugar. Next, you need to grind the lemons (blender or a meat grinder). Ready-made stuffing pour on the dough, distributed on a greased form with bumpers. Bake in a hot oven until cooked. Baking cakes with a filling is an immense field for experiments. Do not hold back your imagination: berries, fruit, cheese, cottage cheese, mushrooms ... All that is in the refrigerator, you can, after thinking, use as a filling. Even yesterday's buckwheat porridge, if you add to it a boiled egg. It is important only to choose the right dough. Successful experiments! We advise you to read: 
