Pancakes for Blintzes

A blintz is a crepe that’s been bar mitzvahed. The stuffings are limited only by your imagination. Cheese blintzes are the most famous, but potato, meat, kasha, and even blueberry blintzes have their partisans. In the following pages, you’ll find recipes for these and other blintzes. But before you start thinking about fillings, you need to know how to make the wrapper, a soft, thin pancake that resembles a French crepe. To slash the fat in the pancake, I replace most of the eggs with egg w