English-Style Blini
Origin: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Source: Elena Molokhovets (Елена Молоховец), 1901
Ingredients
- glass wheat flour
- glass egg yolks
- glass cream
- glass melted butter
- glass sugar
- lemon
- egg whites
- glass table wine
- glass jam (varenye)
Instructions
- Mix 1/2 glass each flour, yolks and cream with 5/8 glass melted butter, 1/3 glass sugar and lemon zest; fold in whipped whites.
- Fry on small pans, buttered once, without turning; brown tops before hot coals.
- Stack on a dish, brushing with sauce of lemon juice, 1/4 glass table wine and 1/4 glass sugar.
- Cover with meringue (4 whites + 1/2 glass sugar), bake a few minutes, garnish with jam.