Karavai of Blinchiki with Cream Custard
Origin: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Source: Elena Molokhovets (Елена Молоховец), 1901
Ingredients
- 2 glasses wheat flour
- 3 glasses milk
- 5 eggs
- 1/8 funt butter (for batter)
- 3/8 funt butter (to fry pancakes)
- breadcrumbs
- 4 egg yolks (for custard)
- 1/2 glass sugar (for custard)
- 3/4 glass thick smetana
- 1/4 glass sugar (to dust)
Instructions
- Bake pancakes per No. 1636, brown both sides.
- Grease a saucepan with butter and dust with breadcrumbs.
- Make custard: grind 4 yolks white with 1/2 glass sugar, stir in 1/2 glass thick smetana.
- Layer pancakes, spreading custard between; top with a pancake.
- Bake ~20 minutes in a moderate oven until custard sets; turn out and dust with sugar.