Buckwheat Pancakes

Name: Buckwheat Pancakes (Russian Buckwheat Blinis)
Yield: Makes a dozen little pancakes
Cuisine: Russian
Ingredients: 2 cups/300 g white bread flour; ⅔ cup/100 g buckwheat flour; 1 level teaspoon salt; ½ teaspoon dried yeast; Generous 1 cup/300 ml milk; 2 small eggs, whisked; Oil or butter for greasing the pan; Oil or butter for greasing the pan; Sour cream; Chopped scallions; Danish caviar or pickled or smoked herring or smoked salmon (chopped); Danish caviar or pickled or smoked herring or smoked salmon (chopped); Danish caviar or pickled or smoked herring or smoked salmon (chopped); Danish caviar or pickled or smoked herring or smoked salmon (chopped)

Russian Buckwheat Blinis

Preparation info

Makes
a dozen
little pancakes

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Sacred Food

By Elisabeth Luard

Published 2001

About

The Russian offering-food taken to the churchyard on the day of the dead is also the daily bread of the rural housewife. Although, these days, the raising agent is more usually baking soda, live yeast has far greater resonance, being the raw material for that magical process by which millions of near-invisible organisms, upon finding warmth and food, surge into life. All the ingredients should be at blood temperature before you begin.

Ingredients

Europe
Russia
Fish course
Starter
Pescatarian

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