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 Bliny
Source: Olga, RussianFoods.com Editor   Mail to: cuisine@russianfoods.com
 Description
Bliny is a Russian traditional dish. They are baked in a great quantity at Shrove
(carnival) - last week before Lent. Bliny making was a real sacred mystery. People told fortunes on the dough, kept their recipes of Bliny in secret. The first Bliny were put on the window-sills for poor people and pilgrims. The foreigners were very surprised at how many Bliny Russians could eat. At Shrove mother-in-law must bake a lot Bliny for her son-in-law.
The most popular Bliny were made from buckwheat flour. Good Bliny must be very very thin. The thinner Bliny are the perfect your skill is.
 Method
Mix eggs with 3 cups of milk . Add salt and flour and mix thoroughly. The dough can be drained so that there are no flour lumps in it. Pour vegetable oil into a saucer. Peel an onion and cut it into 2 parts; take one part with a fork and dip it in oil. Use it every time for greasing the pan with vegetable oil. Heat the pan. Grease it. Pour thin layer of batter evenly. Add more flour if you are not successful with thin bliny. Cook until light brown, about 2 minutes on each side. Servings: 2-3.
Bliny can be served with butter, sour cream, black or red caviar, fillet
of sturgeon, lox, and salmon.

 Ingredients
  • 1 c flour.
  • 3 c milk.
  • 1/2 ts soda.
  • 2 tb vegetable oil.
  • salt and sugar to taste.
  • 2-3 eggs.

    •  Reviews
      
     Terrific, easy and fun...
     A wonderful Russian dish!! I think the key is the fry pan (didn't want to use a lot of oil and the Bliny must not stick to the pan). I used a T-Fal type, Silverstone or Teflon is OK too. My Russian husband was VERY surprised to see and eat such nice Bliny. It was my first time making this. Yeah!!
     Jos

      
     Bliny
     Bliny should be made with yeast and not baking soda.The dough has to rise before using it.
      Boris

      
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     i would like to kook at hotcaks.thanks
     merissa boggs

      
     i love blini
     i love blini its also good with strawberry jam.
     sarah

      
     KOOL!!!!!!!!!
     i love bliny! i made 3 other recipes for blini, and none were this great! in school, my friends and i r doin a project about maslenitsa, and its a pancake holiday, so were usin the bliny recipe from this site!
      McKenzie

      
     Bliny rulz!
     I just returned from St Petersburg. We had Bliny at least 3 to 5 times at this little Bliny stand by the metro. You can eat it with jam but there was also chiken or ham and chesse asst meats ect.It was as thin as a crepe but much better. They cooked it on a 12 inch round pan. Please try it!
      Derek


     
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