Excellent Blini on Millet Gruel

Ingredients

• 1 funt millet groats
• 1 funt fine wheat flour
• 1 funt buckwheat flour ('shelkovka')
• 2 tsp salt
• 2 tsp sugar
• 1/2 funt butter
• 5 zolotnik dry yeast
• boiling water

Instructions

1. Rinse millet, cook a thin gruel on water, measure 5 glasses; cool.
2. Add wheat flour and yeast; let rise strongly.
3. Add fine buckwheat ('shelkovka'), salt and sugar; beat smooth, let rise.
4. A quarter-hour before baking, scald with boiling water to proper thickness; bake.