Russian pancakes as Leo Tolstoy liked them (RECIPE)
Every housewife in Russia has her own recipe of ‘bliny’. Let's find out how Tolstoy's wife cooked them for him.
Despite having lots of servants and cooks, Sofya Andreyevna Tolstaya was very much involved with cooking herself and left a whole book of recipes that her genius husband liked the most. Sofya always made her ‘bliny’ (pancakes) with kefir to keep them thin. Kefir is often available in eco-supermarkets, but if you can’t find any, buttermilk is an acceptable substitute.
Here, we reveal how to cook Leo Tolstoy’s favorite pancakes:
Ingredients:
- 2 cups of kefir,
- 2 cups of flour,
- 2 eggs,
- 1/2 tsp. of baking soda,
- 2 tbsp. of oil,
- sugar and salt to taste
How to make it:
- Mix the kefir, flour, eggs, sugar and salt in a deep bowl.
- Then, add soda into a cup of boiling water and mix well.
- After this, pour the water with soda slowly into the batter.
- Mix until the batter is smooth and let it sit for 5 minutes. Add oil.
- Fry pancakes in a preheated frying pan for roughly 25-30 seconds on both sides.
