Karavai of Blinchiki with Liver
Origin: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Source: Elena Molokhovets (Елена Молоховец), 1901
Ingredients
- 3 glasses milk (for pancakes)
- 2 glasses wheat flour (for pancakes)
- 2 eggs
- 3/8 funt butter
- lard (shpik)
- 1/2 calf's liver
- 1/2 calf's lights (lungs)
- 1 carrot
- 1 parsley root
- 1 onion
- 2 spoons butter (for filling)
- 5 hard-boiled eggs
- nutmeg, allspice, plain pepper
- red sauce (Nos. 406-408)
Instructions
- Bake pancakes per No. 1636, brown both sides.
- Boil half a calf's lights and half a liver with roots, spices and salt; chop very fine.
- Fry chopped onion in 2 spoons butter, add liver and lights, fry, season with salt, allspice, pepper, nutmeg; mix in 4-5 chopped hard-boiled eggs; cool.
- Layer pancakes in a buttered saucepan with the forcemeat between; bake 1 hour.
- Turn out and pour over red sauce (Nos. 406-408). Also served with shchi.