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Russian cuisine: Tzar's bliny

Overview

A posh and tasty recipe of traditional Russian pancakes.

Ingredients

  • 2 tbs sugar
  • 5 cups flour
  • 4 cups milk
  • 1.5 cup cream
  • 0.5 pound butter
  • 6 eggs
  • 1 ounce yeast
  • A pinch of salt

Cooking

Most famous and most loved Russian food, bliny boast a great variety of recipes ranging from simple mixes to complicated multiple stage dishes. This recipe is one of the complicated ones, but the taste is worth all the effort.

Mix 3 cups of slightly warm milk with 3 cups of flour and yeast. When the dough rises, mix, add the rest of the milk and flour, mix again and set aside in a warm place. When it rises again, add egg yolks beaten with melted butter, cream, sugar and salt. Mix again, set aside for 15 minutes. Then bake the pancakes the usual way.

TIP:

You can make a mixture of different sorts of flour for this recipe - 4 parts wheat flour, 1 part buckwheat, oat or barley flour. Wheat is essential, as it is the only grain containing gluten that keeps the blin together.
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