Thread:ArmInAss/@comment-25820140-20150617002739/@comment-25820140-20150619210402

I am not sure if understand you correctly. In my understanding of word "snack" it is some "not serious" food that people eat if they hungry between regular meals. Sandwiches, chips and etc. In old time people can't afford them to eat between regular meals, when all family members gather together. So people maybe have an apple something like this between meals. Nobles also followed the tradition "everybody eat in one time, no snacks". But I think Katya can spoil Ivan with some sweet treats: pryanik, covrigka, postila, sushki, suhari and also she can bake pancakes and serve them with honey, jem (varen'e) and sour cream. P.S. Also one important question. Do anachronisms in cuisine bother you? (it is another world after all) I asking this because after Ivan Grozny food in Russia changed dramatically. The most importent change was introduction of potato. Even tradition soups that existed before potato introduction changed and included it in recipes. Also vegetable that once played important role in Russian cuisine - Brassica rapa, loss all it's positions and nearly disappeared from recipes at all. So it kind of difficult without really good historical sources to describe cusine of that days.