We moved to Kuban. We bought a house with a plot on the edge of the forest. We need to get some livestock. There is a dog and a cat, we brought them with us. We don’t need a cow, we need 3 liters of milk per week. A goat does not fit these parameters either. You can still have rabbits, they are soft and fluffy, they eat only grass and vegetables, but they multiply very quickly - what to do with them then? You won’t be able to handle them, soft and fluffy, and the prospect of an Australian rabbit tragedy is frightening. The bees remain.
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You can buy luxurious rose seedlings at a more attractive price in the fall, when numerous exhibitions and fairs offer a huge selection of varieties. Why not plant roses in September-October? At its core, autumn planting of roses differs from spring planting only in a few small nuances. Simple rules and a few tricks will help you get healthy, strong plants that will begin to grow and delight you with the first flowers before those planted in the spring.
Picking porcini mushrooms is the dream of every mushroom picker. The volume greatly depends on ambitions: for some, five pieces are enough for complete puppy delight, for others only a full trunk will satisfy. In any case, having collected porcini mushrooms, you feel like a breadwinner and lucky. But sometimes, under the guise of white mushrooms, inexperienced mushroom pickers can pick up completely non-white mushrooms. And it’s good if they’re edible, but what if they’re not? What types of porcini mushrooms are there, and what mushrooms can they be confused with?
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Liver cake is an independent snack dish and a salad at the same time. It's very easy to prepare. Therefore, such an unusual liver product is an excellent option both for a formal table and as a “duty” dish.
Why is this snack called cake? Usually, cake is associated with dessert. The appetizer consists of cakes coated with a filling, like cream.
An important argument in favor of preparing this unusual dish is the unconditional benefits of the liver for the body: it is a real storehouse of vitamins and beneficial microelements.
There are many cooking options. The liver can be used not only from beef, but also from pork, but also from poultry. There is nothing difficult to prepare; even a novice cook can prepare it.
Classic recipe for beef liver cake
The interesting thing about liver cake is that every housewife has her own secret. And, naturally, everyone considers their own cooking method to be the best. But this liver cake recipe is universal and everyone will like it. Delicious, inexpensive and not at all complicated.
Products:
- Beef liver – 1 kg.
- Milk – 1 glass.
- Eggs – 2 pcs.
- Flour – 2 tbsp. l.
- “Turnip” onion – 4-5 medium heads.
- Mayonnaise.
- Vegetable oil.
- Salt to taste.
- Dill, parsley.
Step-by-step cooking algorithm:
- Rinse the liver, clean it of films and veins (it seems that these are bile ducts, but it doesn’t matter).
- Cut the liver into large pieces, pour in milk and leave to soak for 30 minutes. Then grind in a meat grinder, adding the milk in which the liver was soaked.
- Salt the mixture, stir in the eggs and flour (if desired, it can be replaced with semolina).
- Move the mixture around. The consistency should be like pancake dough. If the cake batter is too runny, add flour. If, on the contrary, it is too thick, add a little milk and mix again.
- Fry pancakes in a heated frying pan. Frying time on each side is approximately 1 minute. It is better to use a special pancake pan, since the cakes are soft and easy to damage.
- Preparing the “cream”: Peel, rinse and finely chop the onion. Then fry it until light golden brown.
- Wash and cut the greens.
- Mix onions with mayonnaise and herbs.
Now all that remains is, as when preparing a classic confectionery product, coat the cakes with onion-mayonnaise filling and place in a cool place, preferably overnight.
The dish has one drawback: it is eaten instantly, so don’t yawn!
Step-by-step recipe for cooking with mushrooms
The recipe is unusual and tastes wonderful.
Components:
- Beef liver – 1 kg.
- Eggs – 4 pcs.
- Milk – 200 ml.
- Wheat flour – 300 g.
- Salt, pepper - to taste.
Filling:
- Onion “turnip” – 4 heads.
- Carrots (medium) – 4 pcs.
- Mushrooms – 0.5-0.6 kg.
- Hard cheese – 100 g.
- Garlic – 4 cloves.
- Mayonnaise.
The procedure is as follows:
- Grind the washed, peeled and chopped liver with a meat grinder.
- Stir in milk and flour. Salt and pepper the mixture. Mix thoroughly. The texture of the dough comes out like pancake dough.
- Bake or fry pancakes in a frying pan.
Now start filling:
- Wash the carrots, peel them, grate them.
- Peel the onion and chop finely.
- Wash the mushrooms and cut into small pieces.
- Fry vegetables and mushrooms (separately).
- Grate the cheese.
- Peel and chop the garlic.
- Mix mayonnaise with cheese and garlic.
Fold the liver cake, brushing each layer with a mixture of cheese, garlic and mayonnaise. Don't forget to layer the cakes with fried mushrooms and vegetables.
Cooking with melted cheese
Prepare liver cake with melted cheese. It turns out very tasty and unusual.
Ingredients:
- Beef liver – 1.0 kg.
- Chicken eggs – 4 pcs.
- Wheat flour – 6 tbsp. l.
- Onions – 4 pcs.
- Sour cream – 4 tbsp. l.
- Pepper, salt.
- Lenten oil.
Filling:
- Hard-boiled eggs – 4 pcs.
- Processed cheese – 2 pcs.
- Mayonnaise – 350 g.
- Garlic – 5-6 cloves.
Preparation procedure:
- Peel and quarter the onion.
- Grind the pre-prepared liver together with the onion using a meat grinder or blender.
- Combine the resulting mixture with eggs, flour and sour cream, add salt and pepper (without fanaticism) and mix until smooth.
- Bake liver “pancakes” in a frying pan.
Now - the filling:
- Grate the eggs and melted cheese.
- Chop the garlic and combine with mayonnaise.
- Spread the first crust with mayonnaise-garlic sauce and sprinkle with shredded cheese on top.
- The filling for the next cake is garlic + mayonnaise, with chopped eggs on top.
- Stack the cake layers, alternating between different types of filling.
The cake is ready. Now let it sit in the refrigerator for a couple of hours, and you can begin its systematic destruction.
Delicate liver cake with vegetables
The cake layers for this recipe are the most tender, literally melting in your mouth. And the filling will be a little unusual and original, with eggplants or, as Odessa residents call them, “little blue ones.”
Ingredients:
- Beef liver – 1 kg.
- Milk – 250 ml.
- Eggs – 4 pcs.
- Flour – 2 tbsp.
- Sunflower oil.
- Baking powder for dough – 0.5 tsp
- Onion “turnip” – 2 medium heads.
- Salt - to taste.
Filling:
- Eggplants – 2 pcs.
- Fresh tomatoes – 2 pcs.
- Garlic - 4 cloves.
- Dill, parsley.
- Nut kernels – 50 g.
- Mayonnaise.
- Processed cheese – 2 pcs.
The cooking algorithm is as follows:
- Wash, remove films and cut the liver.
- Peel the onion and cut each onion into 4 pieces.
- Grind the liver in a meat grinder or blender with onions.
- Mix milk, eggs, flour, salt into the mixture. To make the cakes easier to bake, add a spoonful of butter. The dough looks like medium thick sour cream.
- Bake pancakes in a frying pan.
It's time to start filling:
- Bake the “little blue ones” in the oven, peel and chop finely.
- Scald the tomatoes with boiling water, remove the skin, cut into cubes.
- Chop nuts, garlic and herbs.
- Combine all the ingredients for the filling, then stir in the mayonnaise.
- Fold the cake, spreading cream over each layer. You can decorate the product at your own discretion.
- Place the finished product in the refrigerator for at least half an hour.
Bon appetit everyone!
Beef liver cake is made from ground meat. Therefore, we pass all the liver that we have through a meat grinder:
The big advantage of this recipe is that there is no need to remove the film and veins from the liver - everything will be twisted in a meat grinder and will not cause any discomfort when eaten. Add eggs, salt, pepper and flour to the ground liver and knead the minced meat into a homogeneous mixture.
Now, using a tablespoon, spread the minced liver in a heated frying pan of small diameter (it will be more convenient to turn our liver pancake in a small frying pan). Fry it on one side until it changes color and carefully, using a large spatula, turn the pancake over to the second side and also fry until the color changes.
There is no need to fry the liver for a long time - just so that it changes its color. And we do the same procedure with all the minced meat. As a rule, from such a quantity of products 3-4 full-fledged liver pancakes come out.
When all the pancakes are overcooked, set them aside and let them cool. In the meantime, we are making carrot and onion frying, which we will use to layer the layers of beef liver cake. To do this, fry grated carrots and onions cut into quarters together.
When the frying is ready, take the first liver pancake, put it on a plate and coat the pancake with mayonnaise. Place fried onions and carrots on top of the greased pancake:
We cover everything with a second pancake and do the same operation with the second pancake - mayonnaise - frying. And so on until all the pancakes are gone.
Well, decorate the top pancake at your own discretion, to the extent of your own imagination. You can simply sprinkle with chopped herbs, or you can build a whole garden from the appropriate products.
Beef liver cake is ready!
There are a lot of options for making liver cake from beef liver, and, in my opinion, every respectable housewife has her own unique way of preparing this delicious snack liver cake.
But, the main thing that needs to be taken into account in the process of preparing liver cake is the end result. The resulting liver cake should be soft and tender so that a piece can be broken off with a fork.
To be honest, I didn’t immediately manage to prepare a liver cake from beef liver, even with a detailed online recipe. But this turned out to be a matter of practice, and now I hasten to tell you a proven and successful recipe for beef liver cake, which turns out right the first time.
I hope I convinced you to make a delicious beef liver cake? Then let's get to work!
Ingredients for liver pancakes:
- 1.5 kg beef liver
- 500 ml milk
- 200 g potatoes
- 75 g onions
- 3 eggs
- 3 tbsp. l. wheat flour
- salt to taste
- 0.5 tsp. ground black pepper
- 100 ml vegetable oil
Filling ingredients:
- 75 g onions
- 200 g carrots
- 400 g homemade mayonnaise or sour cream
- 3 cloves garlic
- 3 tbsp. l. sunflower oil
- 1 boiled egg for decoration
- greens for decoration
How to make beef liver cake:
Wash the liver, remove veins and films. Place in a deep bowl and fill with milk. Leave the liver for several hours.
At this time, we will prepare the filling for our cake. Peel the onion, wash it and cut it into cubes. Peel and grate the carrots.
Pour some vegetable oil into the frying pan. Pour vegetables into it. Stirring, fry them until soft. At the end of cooking, add a little salt and pepper to the filling.
Let's cool it to room temperature.
Wash and hard-boil the chicken egg. Let cool and peel off the shells. Let's grate the egg on a fine grater; we will need it to decorate the top of our delicious beef liver cake.
Then grind the liver using a meat grinder or blender. Grind the onion and potatoes in the same way.
If the size of the blender bowl allows, you can grind all the ingredients at once.
Let's combine the ingredients for the liver pancakes. Add salt, black pepper and sifted flour.
Beat in the eggs and mix the dough again.
Mix thoroughly, the mixture should be thick and homogeneous, as required by the recipe for beef liver cake.
Heat a non-stick frying pan. Pour in some vegetable oil. Place a few spoons of pancake batter and smooth it over the entire surface of the pan using a silicone spatula.
Fry the pancake on one side, then carefully turn it over to the other side. If the pancakes do not hold their shape well and tear, add a little more flour to the dough.
Let's cool our liver cake preparations to room temperature.
Now let's assemble our beef liver cake.
Combine homemade mayonnaise or sour cream with garlic cloves passed through a press. You can mix mayonnaise and sour cream in a 1:1 ratio.
Grease the liver pancake with garlic sauce.
Place some vegetable filling on top, following the simple recipe for beef liver cake.
The best way to excite people is to serve a cake at the snack table and not say that it is made from liver. Imagine the amazement of your guests when they take a closer look and realize that the red flowers on the “dessert” are made from cherry tomatoes, the pretty white specks that so wonderfully enliven the overall design are from mayonnaise, and the leaves on the sides are not creamy at all, but even real and very parsley! In my opinion, this aspect alone is worth spending a little time making a nice, delicious, colorful liver cake for tonight's dinner.
There are a lot of recipes. How not to drown in them, finding “yours” and choosing the best one? There is only one recommendation – try and experiment. Through trial and error, you will probably find one that suits you in all respects. I can only help with one thing - to tell you about those recipes for liver cakes that I prepared myself, tried and tasted, and was satisfied with the result.
To prepare liver cake, it is best to use beef (veal) or chicken liver. Pork, alas, is mercilessly bitter, which is felt especially clearly in the cake. If you have unlimited access to goose (ah!) or duck (mmmm!...) liver, feel free to take them. A very worthy cake is also made from turkey liver.
WHAT IS HERE - LIVER CAKE RECIPES +:
Simple liver cake
The recipe is basic, which you just need to master, so that you can then set off on your own and serve the cake the way you personally like, get creative with fillings and “creams,” add and remove ingredients.Ingredients for pancakes:
- 0.5 kg of liver;
- 0.5 liters of milk;
- 5 eggs;
- 2 onions;
- 1 cup flour;
- salt, pepper, vegetable oil for frying.
Ingredients for the “cream”:
- 3 small onions;
- 100 g mayonnaise;
- vegetable oil;
- 1 boiled egg for decoration.
HOW TO COOK
We wash the liver for the cake well, remove films and other ugliness. Let the water drain, then cut into pieces.
Peel the onion, set 3 heads aside, cut 2 into 4 parts and add to the bowl with the liver. Pass it through a meat grinder.
Beat the eggs into the liver-onion mixture, add salt and pepper, stir, pour in the milk and gradually add the flour, thoroughly stirring any lumps.
The consistency of the batter should be slightly thicker than regular pancake batter. Be sure to give it a little “rest” - when the gluten dissolves, frying such pancakes will be much easier, they will become stronger and more elastic.
Grease a well-heated frying pan with oil and fry the pancakes on both sides until lightly golden. Leave to cool.
Meanwhile, make the filling - cut the remaining onion into half rings and fry it in vegetable oil until golden.
Collect the cake: liver pancake, a little mayonnaise, part of the onion, again pancake, mayonnaise, onion - and so on until the pancakes run out.
Coat the top layer with mayonnaise and decorate with grated boiled egg. Before serving, the cake should soak for 3-4 hours, then you can treat your guests!
Liver cake with mushrooms
If you make liver cake quite often, I'm sure you want variety. These pancakes themselves are tasty and tender, however, sometimes it doesn’t hurt to dilute this tenderness a little - why not experiment today and put some champignons in the dough?Ingredients for pancakes:
- 400 g liver;
- 3 eggs;
- 1/2 cup flour;
- 1 glass of milk;
- 300 g champignons;
- vegetable oil;
- 3-4 cloves of garlic.
- 2 large onions;
- 100 g mayonnaise;
- salt, pepper to taste.
HOW TO MAKE LIVER AND MUSHROOMS CAKE
Wash the champignons and cut them into slices. Fry in vegetable oil until excess moisture evaporates and acquires a pleasant golden hue.
We leave a few beautiful mushrooms for decoration and immediately put them aside.
We pass the liver through a meat grinder. Add eggs, salt, pepper and milk, stir and add flour. Mix again - when the dough is homogeneous, add the mushrooms.
Fry in a well-heated and oiled frying pan on both sides.
Leave the finished pancakes to cool.
At this time, cut the peeled onion into half rings. Fry until caramel golden, cool and mix with mayonnaise and chopped garlic.
Lubricate the pancakes with the resulting “cream”, decorate the top and sides with the mushrooms set aside earlier. Serve after 3-4 hours.
Liver cake with spicy currant jelly
The berry layer incredibly refreshes the rather heavy independent taste of the liver. If you tinker a little, you will get not just a tasty snack option for the holiday table - you will get almost a masterpiece that will disappear from the table instantly.
Ingredients for liver pancakes:
- 0.5 kg of liver;
- 0.5 cups sour cream;
- 1 egg;
- 0.5 cups flour;
- salt, pepper, vegetable oil.
Filling ingredients:
- 100 g mayonnaise;
- 1 glass of freshly squeezed currant juice;
- 1 tbsp. l. gelatin “without slide”;
- 1/3 tsp. cardamom;
- 1/3 tsp. cinnamon;
- 1/3 tsp. hot red pepper;
- 1/3 tsp. ground allspice.
RECIPE FOR LIVER CAKE WITH JELLY
First - jelly. You need to take a springform pan with a diameter equal to the diameter of the frying pan on which you plan to fry the pancakes.
3-5 hours before preparing the cake, add a few tablespoons of cold water to the gelatin and leave to swell.
Meanwhile, mix currant juice with spices, add salt if necessary.
Dissolve the gelatin over low heat until smooth, then add it into the currant mass in a thin stream, stir, pour into the mold and put in the refrigerator.
Pass the liver through a meat grinder, mix with salt, pepper, add egg and sour cream, then stir in flour. Achieve a homogeneous mass, then leave the dough to “rest” for half an hour.
Fry the pancakes in a well-heated frying pan on both sides until lightly golden. Don't forget to grease the pan with oil as needed.
After the pancakes have cooled completely, coat them with mayonnaise. Don't forget to put a layer of currant jelly in the middle - right on the pancake, not greased with mayonnaise.
Grease the top and sides of the cake with mayonnaise, if desired, decorate with herbs, boiled egg, and vegetables.
Liver cake with buckwheat flour
If you cook liver in, say, the usual fried form, what do you serve it with? In my family, they prefer buckwheat as a side dish - it seems to me that this grain is simply created to perform on the same stage with liver, it emphasizes its taste and reveals its undertones, balances the light bitter-tart taste and simply gives a feeling of deliciousness, lightness, satiety.Ingredients for the recipe:
- 5 eggs;
- 1 kg of liver;
- 5 tbsp. l. buckwheat flour;
- 2 tbsp. l. starch;
- 300 ml milk;
- salt, pepper, vegetable oil;
- mayonnaise, garlic.
Recipe for liver cake with buckwheat flour
Wash the liver, dry it and pass it through a meat grinder. Add eggs, milk, salt and pepper, mix and gradually add flour and starch. Let the dough sit for half an hour, then fry the pancakes in a well-heated and oiled frying pan, pouring in a little liver mass and frying on both sides until lightly golden.
Cool the finished pancakes and spread with mayonnaise mixed with a few cloves of garlic. Let soak and serve, cut into portions.
Liver cake in a slow cooker
In the age of insane speeds and the desire to reduce the time devoted to solving everyday issues, more and more people are switching to cooking in a slow cooker. In my opinion, a liver cake baked this way loses in taste - it is more boring, restrained, and neutral. However, at the same time, it should be noted that the amount of oil compared to the version in a frying pan is significantly small. In addition, baked is always healthier than fried, so as an alternative, such a cake has a right to exist.
Ingredients for the recipe:
- 500 g liver;
- 3 eggs;
- 2 onions;
- 1 carrot;
- 1 glass of sour cream;
- 1/3 cup flour;
- vegetable oil;
- 50 g mayonnaise;
- 3-4 cloves of garlic;
- 2 boiled eggs.
How to cook liver cake in a slow cooker
Cut the onion into cubes and fry in a slow cooker on the “Baking” mode.
Grate the carrots on a fine grater and fry them too.
Wash the liver, dry it and cut it into pieces. Place in a bowl, add onions and carrots, puree the mixture with a blender or pass through a meat grinder. Add eggs, salt and pepper, flour and knead a not very thick dough.
Grease the multicooker cup with oil, pour in the dough and close the lid. Cook on the “Baking” mode for 60 minutes.
Remove the finished cake from the multicooker and, after cooling completely, cut it into 2-3 cake layers.
Mix crushed garlic with mayonnaise and spread on the cake. We also grease the top and sides with “cream” and sprinkle with grated egg. Serve 2-3 hours after the cake is soaked.
Liver roll
Yes, this is not a cake, but a roll, but it is cooked in the oven and looks stunning on the plate. It will take a little less time to create it, and the result will be no worse.
Ingredients for the recipe:
- 500 g liver;
- 100 ml kefir;
- 1 tsp. baking powder;
- 2 eggs;
- 1 cup flour;
- 2 onions;
- salt pepper;
- 150 g hard cheese;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- a few sprigs of parsley.
PREPARING THE ROLL
Wash the liver, dry it, remove the films and grind it together with the onion in a blender. Add eggs, kefir, salt, pepper and baking powder, stir in flour and grind until smooth. Pour the dough onto a baking tray lined with baking paper and bake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for about 15 minutes.
While the roll is baking, grate the cheese on a fine grater and mix it with finely chopped parsley and squeezed garlic.
Remove the crust from the oven and sprinkle evenly with cheese and herbs. Immediately roll it up, separating it from the paper, and return it to the oven for another 3-5 minutes. Slice when cooled.
A reason to fantasize
The listed recipes for liver cake are not a complete list of how you can diversify a fairly ordinary dish. You can safely add to the filling:
— fried carrots and Korean carrots;
- caramelized apples, applesauce and just diced or grated apples;
- cranberries, lingonberries and any other sour berries;
- eggplants, zucchini, tomatoes and many other vegetables that go well with liver;
- nuts and seeds;
- prunes, raisins, dried apricots.
Turning cons into advantages
Quite often you can come across comments and opinions that liver cake is terrible, decorated and served as a beautiful snack. Different opinions are needed, different opinions are important, but let's figure it out. The most common argument against it is the use of mayonnaise. No one argues that the industrial sauce is far from ideal and contains elements of Mendeleev’s periodic system that are far from useful for the body, however, who says that a liver cake must be coated with store-bought mayonnaise? Now almost everyone has a blender in their kitchen, but finding an egg, vegetable oil and a spoonful of mustard and lemon juice is not at all a problem - get creative, beat, get a healthy homemade product, which you can use to prepare snacks. And don’t grumble about the nasty things that are hidden in store-bought mayonnaise packages; grumbling is more harmful than eating it.
By the way, some of the mayonnaise can be replaced with low-fat sour cream - just mix them together and coat the pancakes with the resulting “cream”. The taste will remain virtually unchanged, but the fat content will decrease, and your mind will be pleased.
The second common argument from the category “Baba Yaga is against” is a rant about frying. It turns out that liver cake requires frying! Oh! This is where I run out of reasonable arguments, I immediately want to ask if a person really doesn’t eat anything fried at all? Potatoes with an appetizing crust, a golden-brown cutlet, lush pancakes with apples - everything is in the abyss, is everything wrong? When a counter-argument appears about the amount of this very fried thing in one dish, you want to sarcastically ask in response whether the person is going to eat the whole cake entirely and alone. There is no need to consume everything at once, eat one piece, accompany it with a light vegetable salad - and you will be happy.
Benefits of the liver
It's no secret that liver is a product that is not particularly popular among the bulk of the population. And in vain! It has a lot of advantages, which I propose to talk about a little.
Keratin, which is part of the liver, activates metabolic processes, helping the body eliminate nasties and dump garbage. There is no need to talk about the benefits of folic acid, which is very difficult to find in food, - it is not for nothing that it is prescribed to all pregnant women in the form of pharmacological preparations. Antioxidants are a separate matter; now all conscious people are looking for an antidote to the harmful effects of the environment, and the liver can boast of a high content of these substances. Who in childhood was not stuffed with liver “for hemoglobin”? It seems to me that I have known since the cradle that this product contains a record amount of iron, which is extremely necessary for the functioning of any human body. I won’t talk about a bouquet of vitamins and a mountain of minerals - and so everything is clear.
By the way, returning to the main topic of conversation, I will say that muttering about the high calorie content of liver cake is also quite controversial. Liver itself is a low-calorie and dietary product; 100 grams of it contain only 100 kcal; thanks to this fact, nutritionists are even developing effective liver diets.
So, liver is tasty, healthy and cheap, so I advise you no longer to hesitate and rush to the kitchen - cook, rejoice and love the world around you: as soon as you learn to do this sincerely, it will love you too, you'll see!
Decoration and presentation
Like any pancake cake, liver cake can claim the right to be served in an unusual and interesting way. Grated cheese, carving and vegetable applications, a sea of various greens and herbs, olives, green peas, pomegranate seeds - show a little imagination, and the cake will sparkle with incredible colors! When baking “cakes”, make them all of different diameters - from the largest to the smallest: coated with cream, you will get a Christmas tree that can be placed on the New Year's table. Three diameters of pancake circles - and the joyful snowman is almost ready. Using heart-shaped molds, you can easily assemble a portioned snack for Valentine's Day.
By the way, portioned serving is also an excellent option for those who, for some reason, are not “friendly” with pancakes. It is much easier to fry pancakes - by using restrictive rings for omelettes, you can get small pancakes of the same size, which you can fold into neat liver... cakes. Don't be boring and monotonous, create and decorate the world, making it brighter, more interesting, more fun!
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