. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across olt uj^right as he chooses. Did you carry your provisions for the road, or could you rely uponthe stations to furnish them ? Fred inquired. AVe could rely upon the stations for the samovar with hot water, andfor bread and eggs, was the reply, the same as in the tarantasse journeyI have already described, but everything else that we wanted had to becarried along. We had our own tea and sugar, likewise our roast-beef,cabbage-soup, and pilmani
. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across olt uj^right as he chooses. Did you carry your provisions for the road, or could you rely uponthe stations to furnish them ? Fred inquired. AVe could rely upon the stations for the samovar with hot water, andfor bread and eggs, was the reply, the same as in the tarantasse journeyI have already described, but everything else that we wanted had to becarried along. We had our own tea and sugar, likewise our roast-beef,cabbage-soup, and pilmania. PROVISIONS FOR THE ROAD. 369 What is pilmania ? The best thing imaginable for tliis kind of .travelling. It consists ofa piece of cooked meat—beef or mutton—about the size of a grape, sea-soned and wrapped in a thin covering of dough, and then rolled in had at starting nearly a bushel of these dough-covered meat-balls frozensolid and carried in a bag. When we reached a station where we wishedto dine, sup, or breakfast, we ordered the sainovar, and said we had pil-mania, before getting out of the sleigh. A pot of water was immediately. yO^^A- i INTERIOK OF A RUSSIAN INN. put on the fire and heated to the boiling-point; then a double handful ofour pilmania was droj)ped into the pot, the water was brought to the boilagain and kept simmering for a few minutes. The result was a rich meat-soup which Delmonico could not surpass. The bag containing the frozen pilmania seemed to be filled with wal-nuts. Our cabbage-soup was in cakes like small bricks, and our roast-beef resembled red granite. We carved the beef with a hatchet, and 24 370 THE BOY TRAVELLEES IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. then thawed out the slices while waiting for the samovar. We had par-tridges cooked and frozen. With all the articles I have named for dinner,Avhat more could we wish, esj^ecially when we liad appetites sharpened bytravelling in the keen, pure air of Siberia ? Wasnt there danger, while you were i
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