Wheat Blini
Origin: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Source: Elena Molokhovets (Елена Молоховец), 1901
Ingredients
- 4 glasses warm milk
- 2 1/2 glasses fine wheat flour (krupchatka)
- 3-6 zolotnik dry yeast
- 1 spoon melted butter
- 2 egg yolks
- 2 egg whites
- 1/2 glass thick cream
Instructions
- Set a sponge: 4 glasses warm milk, 2 1/2 glasses fine wheat flour, 3-6 zolotnik yeast, 1 spoon melted butter; let rise.
- Beat, salt, add 2 yolks with sugar and 2-2 1/2 glasses more wheat flour; beat well.
- Fold in 2 whipped whites and 1/2 glass thick cream; let rise and bake without stirring.