Pirog with Mushrooms and Vizigá

Ingredients

• 1/8-1/4 funt vizigá (dried sturgeon spinal cord)
• 3/4 stakan rice
• 6 dried mushrooms
• 2 onion
• 1 carrot
• 1/2 parsley
• 1/2 celery
• 1/2 leek
• 6 grains English pepper (allspice)
• 3 cloves
• 1/4 funt butter
• 3 large eggs
• fat broth
• salt

Instructions

1. Soak, boil and chop the vizigá; boil rice with aromatics; boil and chop dried mushrooms.
2. Combine vizigá, rice and mushrooms (discard whole roots/spices).
3. Fry onion, add the mixture, season, moisten with broth, and fill the pirog. Lenten version uses vegetable oil.