Pirog with Smolensk or Fine Buckwheat Kasha and Mushrooms

Ingredients

• 6 dried mushrooms
• 1 onion
• 1 carrot
• 1/2 parsley
• 1/3 celery
• 10-12 grains English pepper (allspice)
• 2 stakan Smolensk or buckwheat groats
• 1/4 funt Finnish butter
• 3 hard-boiled eggs
• 2 1/2 stakan mushroom broth

Instructions

1. Boil dried mushrooms with aromatics; chop, and strain 2 1/2 stakan broth.
2. Boil broth with butter, stir in groats, break up lumps, add mushrooms (and eggs on a meat day), salt, and bake 1/2 hour.
3. Fill pirog or pirozhki with the kasha.