Dinner dumplings: Alice Zaslavsky’s savoury syrniki with caraway and caramelised onion – recipe

So savoury and satisfying: Alice Zaslavsky’s syrniki with caraway and caramelised onion. Photograph: Eugene Hyland/The Guardian

Isn’t it funny how ingredients have entirely different connotations depending on your context?

In the Anglosphere, cottage cheese is mid-century diet food. Served with grapefruit halves, joyless and tasteless. Richard Nixon’s last White House meal: tinned pineapple slices with an ice-cream scoop of cottage cheese and a glass of milk. Yikes.