Buckwheat Blini, Another Way
Origin: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Source: Elena Molokhovets (Елена Молоховец), 1901
Ingredients
- glasses buckwheat flour
- glass cold water
- glasses boiling water
- zolotnik dry yeast
- spoonful salt and sugar
- glasses fine wheat flour (krupchatka)
- glass melted butter
- butter, smetana, caviar
Instructions
- Slake 1 glass buckwheat flour with 1 glass cold water, scald with 3 1/2 glasses boiling water, mix, cool.
- Add 3-6 zolotnik dry yeast, set in a warm place, let rise.
- Beat with a paddle, add salt, sugar and 3 glasses fine wheat flour, knead, let rise again.
- Without stirring, transfer and bake on pans as in the note; serve with butter, smetana and caviar. Yields 25.