Karavai of Blinchiki with Assorted Fillings
Origin: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Source: Elena Molokhovets (Елена Молоховец), 1901
Ingredients
- 3 glasses milk (for pancakes)
- 2 glasses wheat flour
- 2 eggs
- 3/8 funt butter
- 1/4 funt lard (shpik)
- 1 funt boiled beef (meat filling)
- 1/2 spoon butter
- 1/2 onion (meat filling)
- 1/2 funt tvorog (curd filling)
- 1/2 glass semolina (manna, kasha filling)
Instructions
- Bake pancakes per No. 1636, brown both sides.
- Prepare three fillings: meat (chopped boiled beef fried with onion, salt, allspice, hard-boiled egg); tvorog (with egg, smetana, butter); semolina kasha (cooked in milk and butter, bound with egg, salted).
- Layer pancakes in a buttered saucepan, interleaving with the assorted fillings.
- Bake until browned; turn out to serve.