The Very Best Blini

Ingredients

• glasses wheat flour
• glasses buckwheat flour
• glasses warm water
• zolotnik dry yeast
• glasses boiling milk (to scald)
• tsp salt and sugar
• eggs (optional)
• funt butter (optional in batter)
• glass butter (to bake)
• butter, caviar, smetana

Instructions

1. Set a sponge: 1 1/2 glasses wheat + 2 1/2 glasses buckwheat flour, 2 1/2 glasses warm water, 3-6 zolotnik yeast; let rise.
2. Add 1 glass buckwheat flour, let rise again.
3. An hour before baking, scald with 2 glasses boiling milk, mix smooth, cool, add salt, sugar (optionally 2-3 eggs and 1/8 funt butter); let rise.
4. Bake as in the note without stirring; serve butter, caviar, smetana. Yields 25.