- To place a bag in a plenty of the boiling added some salt water.
- To cook on moderate fire of 15-20 minutes.
- To get a bag, having picked up a plug for a loop stipulated for this purpose.
- To allow water to flow down.
- To open a bag, having broken off it on a line of notches.
- To lay out a product on a dish and to add oil to taste.
Isn’t Russian beautiful?
These are the English instructions on a box of boil-in-the-bag buckwheat that Spouse procured at the Russian Gourmet where he shops when he’s feeling nostalgic.





To cook on moderate fire, or not to cook on moderate fire – that is the question.