Couscous with water and rolled with the hands to form small pellets, sprinkled with dry flour to keep them separate, and then sieved. Any pellets that are too small to be finished granules of couscous fall through the sieve and are again rolled and sprinkled with dry semolina and rolled into pellets. This labor-intensive process continues until all the semolina has been formed into tiny granules of couscous. In the traditional method of preparing couscous, groups of women came together to make large batches over several days, which were then dried in the sun and used for several months. Handmade couscous
Nyanya (dish) black porridge, brains, and other things. "What niania this is!" he added to Chichikov. "Never would you get such stuff in a town, where one is given the devil knows what." The dish is also mentioned in the Saltykov-Shchedrin's novel "Old Years in Poshekhonye". Nyanya (dish) Nyanya or niania () is an ancient Russian dish. It consists of a sheep’s abomasum stuffed with mutton brains, head meat, legs, onion and buckwheat porridge. The dish is known from the 9th century. Nyanya was forbidden by the Russian Orthodox Church because pagan Slavs used the dish in their rituals. The nyanya is