Buckwheat Blini, Half with Wheat Flour
Origin: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Source: Elena Molokhovets (Елена Молоховец), 1901
Ingredients
- glasses wheat flour
- glasses warm water
- tbsp melted butter
- zolotnik dry yeast
- salt and sugar
- glass buckwheat flour
- glasses hot milk (to scald)
- egg whites
Instructions
- Set a sponge 5-6 hours ahead: 3 glasses wheat flour, 2 1/2 glasses warm water, 1 tbsp melted butter, 3-6 zolotnik yeast; beat, let rise.
- Beat again, add salt, sugar and 1 glass buckwheat flour; let rise.
- An hour before baking, beat, scald with 1 1/2-2 glasses hot milk, optionally fold in 2 whipped whites; let rise.
- Bake as in the note without stirring.