Karavai of Blinchiki with Cream Custard
Origin: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Source: Elena Molokhovets (Елена Молоховец), 1901
Ingredients
- glasses wheat flour
- glasses milk
- eggs
- funt butter (for batter)
- funt butter (to fry pancakes)
- breadcrumbs
- egg yolks (for custard)
- glass sugar (for custard)
- glass thick smetana
- 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.