Blinchiki with Crumbly Smolensk-Groat Kasha

Ingredients

• 3 glasses milk (for pancakes)
• 2 glasses wheat flour (for pancakes)
• 2 eggs (for pancakes)
• 1/4 funt lard (shpik)
• 3/8 funt butter
• 1/2 glass Smolensk groats (fine buckwheat)
• 1 egg (for kasha)
• 1 glass milk or water (for kasha)
• 1/4 glass currants (korinka)
• 1 spoon butter (for kasha)

Instructions

1. Bake pancakes per No. 1636, brown one side.
2. Spread with a thin layer of crumbly Smolensk-groat kasha (No. 1750, sweetened with currants, cinnamon, sugar).
3. Fold book-fashion, brown, serve at once.
4. For a savory version to serve with soup or shchi, make the kasha with salt only (no cinnamon, sugar or currants).