And to use your túró

So, supposing you have gone to the trouble of making a batch of túró (not that it’s hard or all that troublesome).  What to do with it?

Túró cake

Crush the túró, whip some eggs, then add some dill, sour cream and butter. 

and

Dish with túró and sour cream.

If cooking for a prince or a lord, do it like this. Crush some túró into a pot, add some dill and whip some eggs; if you’re making this for a smaller plate, five eggs will do, then add some sour cream. Don’t add water, put it on coal and stir it while cooking.

Cook it, but serve it immediately once cooked, for it’s no good otherwise.

If you don’t have enough sour cream, add a bit of water if your lord wants. Cook the túró, whip some eggs and pass the sour cream through a strainer onto it.

I took a few liberties with these.  I added black pepper, because the dish came out -really- mild.  Bland even.  I also would add salt.  And instead of putting it in a pipkin, I poured the mixture into a pan and baked it for about 40 minutes.  It is better warm, but not bad tepid or cool, either.

So, my interpretation:

1 batch túró (see the recipe previously posted—1 gal whole milk, 1 pint cultured buttermilk

4 tablespoons dill (I used the minced greens, not the seed)

1 tablespoon black pepper

1/2 tablespoon salt

3/4 cup sour cream

5 eggs, beaten

4 tablespoons butter, melted and cooled slightly, plus a little more to coat the inside of the pan

Instructions:

Prejeat oven to 325F.  Alternately, and more historically accurate, you could cook it in a ceramic pipkin over coals, but when you add the mixture, you will need to keep stirring until the mixture is cooked.

Coat the pan with a little butter to keep things from sticking.  Then mix all remaining together.  Beat with a spoon until there are no lumps much larger than a pea.  Pour into your prepared pan and bake for about 40 minutes until the mixture is set, but not browned, except a little at the edges.  Serve and eat while warm.  Per the fellorium recipe already posted, you could top this with the eggs poached in whey if you wanted.