Excellent Blini on Millet Gruel
Origin: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Source: Elena Molokhovets (Елена Молоховец), 1901
Ingredients
- funt millet groats
- funt fine wheat flour
- funt buckwheat flour ('shelkovka')
- tsp salt
- tsp sugar
- funt butter
- zolotnik dry yeast
- boiling water
Instructions
- Rinse millet, cook a thin gruel on water, measure 5 glasses; cool.
- Add wheat flour and yeast; let rise strongly.
- Add fine buckwheat ('shelkovka'), salt and sugar; beat smooth, let rise.
- A quarter-hour before baking, scald with boiling water to proper thickness; bake.