Wheat Blini with Whipped Cream
Origin: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Source: Elena Molokhovets (Елена Молоховец), 1901
Ingredients
- 2 glasses warm milk
- 2 spoons / 3-6 zolotnik dry yeast
- 2 tsp salt and sugar
- 3 glasses fine wheat flour
- 2 egg yolks
- 2 egg whites
- 1/2 glass thick cream (whipped)
- 1/2 funt butter
- butter, smetana, caviar
Instructions
- Mix 1 1/2 glass warm milk, 2 spoons yeast, salt, sugar, ~2 1/4 glasses flour; prove 3 hours.
- Beat in 2 yolks, add 3/4 glass flour, thin with milk to proper thickness.
- Whip whites, fold everything into whipped thick cream; let rise.
- Bake on small pans over coals or stove; serve butter, smetana, caviar separately.