If your milk suddenly turns sour, do not rush to throw it away. I suggest making pancakes using one very tasty and simple recipe. To make it soft, add a little boiling water to the dough, and in the end you will get an excellent option for treating your loved ones.
- a glass of sour milk;
- 100 ml boiling water;
- 1-2 tbsp. granulated sugar;
- 10 g vanilla sugar;
- a couple of eggs;
- 170-180 g flour;
- 2-3 tbsp. vegetable oil;
- a pinch of salt;
- 2-3 tsp. baking soda.
How to cook:
Take a deep bowl and break the eggs into it, add salt to them and stir a little with a fork or whisk. Add granulated sugar and vanilla sugar to the egg mass, beat everything thoroughly until foamy. Pour the sour milk into the mixture, stirring constantly. The consistency should be uniform. Pour baking soda into a bowl and stir. To avoid the taste of soda, first quench it with vinegar. Sift the flour through a sieve and add tablespoons to the mixture. Do not forget to stir the mixture all the time, otherwise lumps will form.
Remove the milk from the refrigerator an hour before cooking; it should be at room temperature.
Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan or microwave until warm and pour it into the contents of the bowl. Add a little oil to the pan and let it heat up properly. Use a small ladle to scoop out a portion of the batter and pour it into the center of the pan. Swirl to distribute the dough evenly.
Turn the pancake over to the other side after 2 minutes and continue frying for another minute, then you can remove it from the pan. Grease the pancakes with oil as desired and fold them in any way: triangles, tubes, squares. The dough turns out to be porous, and the taste itself is so delicate that it is impossible to stop eating them.
Put the kettle on and help yourself, bon appetit!
Pancakes with cucumber brine
Did you know that cucumber pickle can not only be drunk, but also added to pancake dough? If not, then try making pancakes yourself or for a holiday table. I suggest making a cheese filling to make the taste creamier.
- 180-200 ml of cucumber brine;
- 100-120 ml of clean water;
- a glass of flour;
- 2 eggs;
- ½ tsp. soda;
- 1 tbsp. granulated sugar;
- 2-3 tbsp. vegetable oil;
- 50-70 g hard cheese.
On a note!
The brine left over from salted tomatoes is suitable for the dough.
How to cook:
Break a couple of eggs into a deep cup, add sugar and stir the contents thoroughly. Use a whisk or fork to mix. Beat until foamy. Add warm water and vegetable oil to the eggs and stir again. Now pour in the brine, but first add soda to it so that it quenches.
Add flour little by little to the liquid mixture. Be sure to sift the flour, then the dough will be porous. There is no need to add salt due to the brine. Grease the frying pan with lard or oil. You only need to grease once, this amount will be enough for the entire frying.
When the pan is hot, pour in the batter and bake the pancakes until golden brown on both sides.
Grind the cheese on a coarse grater. If you like softer varieties, you can take “Russian”, “Dutch”, “Gouda”.
Spread the cheese shavings on the pancake, and then form an envelope so that all the edges meet in the center.
Place the pancakes in a heated frying pan, seam side down, and fry until golden brown.
You can decorate the finished dish with red caviar and sprigs of fresh dill or parsley.
If you like thin pancakes, but with some bumps on them, there is a recipe just for you. The indicated amount of ingredients is designed for approximately 14-16 pancakes, so if you want to cook more, then increase the amount, but according to the proportion.
- 480-500 ml kefir 2.5%;
- 230-250 ml hot water;
- a couple of eggs;
- 2 tbsp. Sahara;
- ½ tsp. salt;
- ½ tsp. baking soda;
- 3-4 tbsp. sunflower oil;
- 220-240 g flour.
How to cook:
First, combine the eggs with sugar and salt in a deep bowl. Take a whisk and beat the mixture into a light foam. Add kefir, mix the ingredients until smooth. Pour hot water into another cup and add baking soda. Pour boiling water into the dough in a thin stream, stir the dough. Thanks to this technique, those very holes in the dough are created. At the penultimate stage, pour vegetable oil into the dough and mix everything again.
The final stage is adding flour. It should be free of lumps, sift it in advance. Add it to the kefir mass and stir. The consistency should resemble liquid sour cream. Heat the pan, pour a little dough into the center and spread. Fry the pancakes over medium heat until the sides begin to brown.
When the pancake is fried on both sides, remove it from the frying pan onto a separate plate.
The pancakes with holes are ready, brew some delicious tea, take out the jam or honey and take a sample. Bon appetit!
Orange pancakes
Do you want to surprise your family and cook unusual pancakes? The whole secret is in the addition of oranges, due to which a pleasant citrus note appears in the taste. You can add curd filling to the dessert or pour jam on top, it will be even tastier and more aromatic.
- 200-230 ml milk;
- 200-220 g flour;
- a piece of butter weighing 40 g;
- orange;
- one testicle;
- tbsp granulated sugar;
- 2 tbsp. vegetable oil;
- a pinch of salt.
How to cook:
First you need to prepare the orange. To do this, grate the zest from it and squeeze the juice into a separate plate. If you took too large a fruit, then half is enough. Break an egg into a bowl for kneading dough, add sugar to it and place it with a fork. Pour the orange juice into the bowl with the egg mixture, then add the orange zest. Melt the butter in the microwave, pour it into a bowl with the remaining ingredients, add vegetable oil. Now add flour to the liquid mixture, but not all, but only half. Stir the mixture thoroughly to break up all the lumps.
Warm the milk a little to room temperature, then pour it into the dough and stir. Now the pancake dough is ready, you can bake.
Heat a frying pan over medium heat and then grease it with a piece of lard. Before pouring the dough, stir it so that the zest rises to the surface. Fry the pancakes until golden brown.
Place the finished dessert beautifully on a plate, garnish with orange slices and serve the treat to the table.
Chocolate pancakes
If you love sweets, then you will probably like chocolate chip pancakes. Cocoa gives the dessert a beautiful color and aroma; decorate the pancakes with a scoop of ice cream, and your family will be absolutely delighted with such a delicacy!
- 230-250 ml kefir;
- 50 g butter (melted);
- one testicle;
- 200-220 g flour;
- tbsp cocoa;
- tbsp Sahara;
- a pinch of salt;
- vanillin optional;
- 2 tbsp. vegetable oil.
It is better to use kefir with a fat content of no more than 2.5%, otherwise the dough will turn out too thick.
How to cook:
Break an egg into a mixing bowl, then add sugar and mash. Pour melted butter into the egg mixture, add cocoa, vanilla to taste. Don't forget to salt it. Mix the mixture until smooth using a blender. Add kefir, vegetable oil and sifted flour to the bowl. Add ingredients gradually, stirring the mixture. Cover the cup with the dough with cling film and place it in the refrigerator for an hour.
Then, when time has passed, grease the pan with lard and fry the pancakes on both sides until chocolate brown.
Place the finished pancakes on a separate plate, you can grease them with oil, then they will acquire a glossy shine. Before serving, pour chocolate syrup over the dessert and enjoy quickly.
Pancakes on water without eggs
A unique option, no special purchase of milk or whey is required. On Maslenitsa, you can quickly prepare pancakes early in the morning while the whole family is still sleeping. The main thing is that there is water and flour in the apartment. This method is ideal for those who fast or for some other reason do not consume animal products. By the way, fasting will begin immediately after Maslenitsa.
Ingredients:
- water – 4 glasses;
- white flour – 500 g;
- baking soda and coarse salt - half a teaspoon each;
- granulated sugar – 30-40 g;
- refined sunflower oil (for dough) – 30 ml.
Preparation
Combine flour, salt and soda with granulated sugar, mix the ingredients together.
Use cold boiled water. Slowly pour it into the flour in a thin stream, stirring immediately with a fork or a kitchen whisk. Do this vigorously so that the flour does not have time to set into lumps. You can adjust the thickness to your liking by adding water to make the dough more fluid.
At the last stage, pour in vegetable oil, mix everything again and you can start baking pancakes.
I also recommend, in my opinion, the best recipe for pancakes with mineral water. If you fill them with condensed milk with nuts or fruits, the result is complete garbage! They will fly away on Maslenitsa in an instant.
Pancakes with whey
They are prepared without yeast, so they won’t take much time. In the evening we came home from work, quickly brought out the pancake mixture and not only for Maslenitsa, but any day for dinner there was a soft and tender yummy on the table. This option is most often used in making pancake cakes.
Ingredients:
- whey – 800 ml;
- granulated sugar – 60-70 g;
- coarse salt – ¼ teaspoon;
- wheat flour – 380-400 g;
- chicken eggs – 2-3 pieces;
- sunflower oil (for dough) – 30-40 ml.
Preparation
Pour the whey into a deep bowl (the whey should be at room temperature, you can even warm it up a little). Taste it right away, if it is sour, then this sourness will be felt in the pancakes, so adjust the taste with granulated sugar, you will have to add a little more of it. Break the eggs into the same bowl, add regular sugar (if you want, you can add vanilla to your liking), and add salt. Using a mixer or kitchen whisk, beat everything until smooth.
Add flour in small parts, continuing to knead the pancake mixture. Do this until you achieve a homogeneous consistency without a single lump. Pour the oil into the prepared pancake mixture, stir again and let the dough sit for about 15-20 minutes. After this you can bake.
Kefir pancakes without eggs
They turn out to be openwork, with a hole, have elasticity and are best suited for stuffing with fillings. You can use milk instead of water, the pancakes will turn out even tastier.
Ingredients:
- white flour – 230-240 g;
- kefir – 0.4 l;
- drinking water – 1 glass;
- coarse salt and baking soda - half a teaspoon each;
- granulated sugar – 30-40 g;
- sunflower oil (for dough) – 20-30 ml.
Preparation
Pour baking soda, granulated sugar and salt into a bowl with kefir, stir until the bulk ingredients are completely dissolved. Never use fermented milk product directly from the refrigerator; take it out in advance so that it warms up at room temperature. Gradually add flour, gently kneading the dough.
Boil water and pour almost boiling water into the pancake mixture. Immediately pour in the vegetable oil, mix everything thoroughly again and you can start frying the pancakes.
Good morning my beloved blog subscribers and guests! As they say, wow, pooh, here we are, very soon a cheerful and mischievous holiday, children's laughter, a bonfire... Have you guessed what I'm getting at? Of course, soon we will all celebrate Maslenitsa, we will remember and learn new songs, jokes and proverbs with our children.
This year 2019 it falls from March 4 to 10, we will all be looking forward to this week. After all, the most important ritual, so to speak, will be considered eating pancakes. Ah-ha, who doesn’t love this thing, as they say, let’s have a blast again?
So, let's remember what awaits us on Maslenitsa weekdays, arrange a real farewell with your friendly family. Make it interesting and run to the fair and show.
When this long-awaited holiday comes, it will be possible to bake a whole mountain of pancakes that would melt in your mouth, drive everyone crazy and be very appetizing and beautiful. Agree, in order to cook something like this, the housewife will need to work hard in the kitchen.
You will need to follow all the rules and recommendations so that, first of all, the dough comes out to the desired consistency, and when frying, the pancake does not stick to the pan and does not turn out to be lumpy. Also, so that there are holes on it or, as they also say, bubbles, and the edges are thin and crispy. In general, at first glance it seems like a difficult task, but don’t worry, soon you will learn how to bake such delicacies yourself in a matter of minutes, and then once you adapt... and things will go like clockwork.
There are quite a large number of options for baking pancakes in the culinary world. Let me remind you, especially since you can become more familiar with each of these species on this blog. Proper and tasty dough can be made based on:
- milk;
- kefir;
- water;
- sour cream;
- serums;
- sour or powdered milk;
- mineral water;
- and oddly enough, even on beer)))
In a nutshell, to any such main component, ordinary baking soda is then added, or baking powder or yeast is used + flour is added and pancake dough is kneaded.
After this, you will need your fighting spirit, good mood and a frying pan. Yes, that's exactly it. Have you already decided on her choice, if not yet, then read the recommendations here?
Well, let's start in order and prepare different types of these delicate and sweet delicacies for each day of the week.
I suggest starting with the simplest and most traditional recipe, which any housewife, whether a beginner or an experienced one, knows. By the way, in cafes and various eateries, this option is most often used, based on choux pastry.
We will need:
Cooking method:
1. Take excellent quality flour, preferably premium whole grain flour. Sift it through a sieve to saturate it with oxygen.
2. After this, you need to add a spoonful of salt and two spoons of sugar. Although you can use a little more granulated sugar, be guided by your taste.
3. Then pour in warm milk, it is advisable to take fresh milk, not yesterday’s milk. Although even sour milk will turn out divinely delicious. Stir the resulting mixture thoroughly with a kitchen whisk.
5. The result is a slightly thick dough, into which you have to add vegetable oil or melt a small piece of butter.
Interesting! With the addition of vegetable oil, the pancakes will be drier, but if you add butter, they will become more moist and rich. You can observe this yourself, so start the experiment))).
6. After this, the whole mass needs to be mixed again and brewed with boiling water, and then mixed again with a whisk.
Depending on what consistency you like, thinner or thicker, dilute by eye using 2 or 3 glasses of water. The thickness of your pancakes will depend on this proportion; if you want to make them thinner, add batter; if they are thick, add thick batter.
Leave to rest in a warm place, cover with cling film or a towel.
7. And only after that start baking. Heat a frying pan; it is advisable to use a cast-iron beauty or one with a thick bottom. Next, pour the mixture into the pan so that it spreads evenly over the entire diameter of the circle.
Before baking, you will need to grease the pan with oil and heat it up very hot, and then fry it dry.
8. As soon as you see the edges starting to brown, take a spatula and turn the treat over to the other side. Remember that the second side bakes quite faster than the first.
Place all the pancakes on a plate in a stack; you can grease each one separately with butter, or you can do without it.
9. You can decorate with any sweet syrup, jam or condensed milk. Bon appetit!
By the way, if you want to decorate your table in an original and festive way, then do it in different ways, it looks funny and fun, you can see the ideas
I’ll tell you right away that this selection will be unique, because I have collected only the best cooking options that I personally tested, so I advise you to do just these).
Classic recipe for thin pancakes made with milk
Tender and rosy, tasty and thin, these are the characteristics that characterize the correct traditional recipe of this popular spring dish. And as they say in feast and peace, they are suitable for literally anything. They are delicious with honey and jam, sour cream and on their own, they will disappear from your serving plates in a matter of minutes, because they will be devoured by both cheeks.
We will need:
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Milk - 200 ml
- Boiling water - 200 ml
- Vegetable oil - 3 tbsp. l
- Flour - 230 g
- Sugar - 1.5 tbsp. l
- Salt - 1 tsp
- Baking powder - 1 tsp
Cooking method:
1. Take a well washed bowl and dry it. Break two chicken eggs into it, add salt and sugar. Since I liked the variety of sweet pancakes, I always add more sugar so that they don’t seem so bland. But, if you make meat fillings, don’t use too much sugar.
2. Whisk the egg mixture until foam forms on the surface. Then pour in the milk, you can warm it up a little, or you can take it out of the refrigerator in advance and let it reach room temperature. Whisk the mixture and begin to gradually add wheat flour in parts.
3. Carefully and slowly carry out this procedure, and you will need to sift the flour through a sieve; this can be done directly over the bowl. Add baking powder next.
4. Stir this egg mixture until it’s quite stiff, the thicker you make it, the more water you’ll need later to dilute the dough, and accordingly, more goodies will come out, but don’t overdo it, there’s a limit to everything). I gave you the exact proportions in the description of the ingredients.
Oh, and don’t forget about vegetable oil, add it to all the products in a bowl.
So, the dough has become a little tight and now boil it with boiling water and start stirring and stirring until it becomes the consistency of liquid cream.
Tadam, start baking. Heat a frying pan over medium heat, grease its surface with oil and only after that pour a ladle of liquid and shiny dough, make circular movements so that the whole mass spreads evenly and in a thin layer over the frying pan.
This activity is quite exciting, it takes an hour to prepare and is eaten in one go))). Fry on both sides until nicely golden brown.
5. And then invite all your friends and household members to a tasting and start eating together.
And to make the festive feast more fun and effective, make an inscription from caviar on this culinary product. And then, for sure, life is good, and your tummy will be delighted).
Milk pancakes - a delicious recipe made with yeast
Perhaps you are a fan of something original and not too simple. You like lace and openwork more than everything ordinary, then you will like this option, which will make simply awesome and beautiful bubbly pancakes. These are the ones most of us are chasing.
We will need:
- dry yeast - 1 sachet or 10 g
- milk - 3 tbsp.
- chicken eggs - 3 pcs.
- flour - 500 g
- sugar - 2 tbsp
- salt - 1 tsp
- vegetable oil - 2 tbsp
Cooking method:
1. Since the recipe will be yeast-based, you will have to make a dough. Therefore, you need to first heat the milk on the stove until it is warm and divide it in half. Then add dry yeast to one half (1-1.5 tbsp.). To get them off to a good start, you need to pamper them by adding granulated sugar and salt.
2. Cover the bowl with a lid and move it aside so that the mixture stands and a cap appears on top; this will take a lot of time, about 10 minutes.
3. After the time has elapsed, knead the dough, add flour and chicken eggs to the milk. Stir and then pour in the remaining milk until the consistency thins and becomes homogeneous in structure. At the very end, pour in 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil.
4. Now let the finished dough rise 3-4 times in a warm place.
Important! Do not forget to cover the dough with a lid so that it does not air out or dry out.
5. Before frying, grease the frying pan with butter and heat it well. Fry over medium heat, on both sides, so that each pancake is well baked and becomes rosy and golden. Bon appetit!
Video on how to cook pancakes so they don't stick
Of course, many people have this problem; apparently you didn’t heat the frying pan properly, or it’s not exactly the kind you need for this dish. Plus, you most likely forgot to add a secret ingredient to help avoid this sticking property. In general, watch everything for yourself and learn with our heroine and YouTube channel host:
Pancakes for Maslenitsa 2019 - recipe with fillings
Well, well, we’ve baked a whole cartload, now let’s not forget that you can and should be stuffed with all sorts of sweet or meat ingredients.
But before that, I want to show you another option, which will also be classic and with the addition of soda. Which one do you prefer most, write your reviews and comments below under this article?
Since the pancakes will be stuffed, add very little salt and sugar so that they do not overwhelm the filling.
We will need:
- cow's milk - half a liter
- soda - 0.5 tsp
- melted butter - 1 tbsp
- chicken egg - 3 pcs.
- salt and sugar to taste or a pinch
Cooking method:
1. Take a container that will be quite deep, break the eggs into it and beat everything well with a regular hand whisk. Add salt and sugar, pour soda into the resulting liquid.
3. Now add the sifted flour in small portions, stir thoroughly so that no lumps form. After this kneading, pour out all the remaining milk and melted butter, whisk thoroughly, you will get a viscous mixture, which is what you need for work.
Let the dough stand aside and brew for 30-40 minutes, and then proceed to the next steps
4. Take a frying pan of any diameter, or use a special pancake maker with low edges and bake our suns on it, spreading the dough over the surface in an even thin layer.
5. First, heat it well, and then turn it to medium heat. Coat the walls and the surface itself with butter, this must be done so that the first pancake does not stick; if this happens, then your frying pan has not yet heated up to the desired state, wait a little longer.
6. Look, those same bubbles are already visible at this moment.
7. Don’t think that this is quite difficult to do, any task requires skill and experience, so adapt. Pour into the very center and quickly rotate the dish in a circular motion.
8. And once you get a big mound, immediately make a special filling that can be made from fruits, for example, peaches + cottage cheese.
Or you can finely chop the apples into pieces and mix them in honey, and then roll them into rolls. I can also suggest using yogurt and cinnamon instead of honey, the stew is also very piquant and interesting.
You can fill it with cream cheese or just cottage cheese mixed with granulated sugar. Garnish as desired with mint sprigs and orange slices.
For sweeter lovers, there is also a banana and chocolate option. Melt the chocolate in a water bath, you can take both white and black, cut the bananas into slices.
And now this tender and delicious banana delicacy is ready.
For those who like to eat something heartier, I offer an option with ham and herbs. Or you can replace the ham with any red fish, and grease the surface of the pancake with liquid curd or cream cheese.
Also an excellent option is the type with bacon or some other meat, such as boiled chicken or beef. In addition to the meat, you can add grated cheese and sour cream.
Pancakes cooked with kefir to make them thin with holes
In fact, I have already shared with you some secrets and nuances, if you haven’t seen the previous entries, then take a look. Today I would like to invite you to watch this video:
An interesting recipe for openwork pancakes on water
The simplest and alternative option without adding milk rightfully belongs to the water recipe. It is considered lean and dietary; in fact, there are a lot of recipes, you need to try all of them and choose the one that will become your favorite and unique.
For aroma, you can add vanilla sugar, which in turn will help you diversify the taste of this sweet dessert.
We will need:
- Flour - 300 g
- Water - 600 ml
- Egg - 3 pcs.
- Salt - 0.5 tsp
- Soda - 0.5 tsp
- Citric acid - 0.5 tsp
- Olive oil - 1 tbsp
- Sugar - 2 tbsp
Cooking method:
1. In this form, a blender will be used; you can take a mixer or food processor. So, you will need to take a bowl or a special cup and beat the eggs with salt and sugar.
2. The mass will begin to increase before your eyes, do not beat too much, the main thing is that the dry ingredient is well dissolved.
3. Now dissolve citric acid in water.
5. Now pour the flour mixture into the resulting mass and beat everything with the whisk of a blender.
6. After this, start pouring water in a thin stream and do not stop whisking.
7. At the very end, pour in the olive oil, which will also need to be stirred thoroughly.
8. Bake culinary round products in the usual way for you in a thick or cast-iron frying pan on both sides. To prevent the pancakes from sticking together, brush them with melted butter and serve with love and great care! Bon appetit!
That’s all for me, dear friends, if you want more experiments, then you can go to my other articles and read. May your Maslenitsa holiday be a great success! Enjoy eating these delicacies! Bye everyone!
In this article you will find the most delicious recipes for pancakes for Maslenitsa with photos and videos: custard, royal, with milk, in a hole, openwork, with water, buckwheat and others
Pancake recipes for Maslenitsa - the most delicious recipes
Everyone loves Maslenitsa, from young to old.
This is not surprising, because Maslenitsa is a very cheerful folk holiday with noisy, mass celebrations, games and fun.
These are fun tea parties with eating delicious pancakes, visiting, lavish feasts and delicious wine.
Of course, every family celebrates this holiday in its own way, but everyone has one thing in common: everyone bakes pancakes throughout the entire Maslenitsa week.
How the Maslenitsa holiday appeared, its traditions, customs and rituals
Maslenitsa is a fairly ancient Slavic holiday; it symbolizes farewell to Winter and the joyful anticipation of Spring.
The celebration of Maslenitsa always begins a week before Lent (the start date of the holiday is tied to Orthodox Easter and changes every year), the cheerful folk festival lasts the entire Maslenitsa week and ends with Forgiveness Sunday - the day that precedes the beginning of Easter.
The tradition of baking pancakes on Maslenitsa appeared a long time ago and was associated with people’s desire to win over the sun, to “persuad” it in this way to warm the ground frozen during the winter.
Since ancient times, Maslenitsa week has been famous for its hearty, plentiful food, long feasts and delicious dishes.
On the eve of the long Lent, people tried to enjoy hearty, tasty dishes to their heart's content and not deny themselves anything.
But the most important treat of this holiday remained, and remains to this day, of course, pancakes - as a symbol of the sun!!!
According to ancient folk belief, those pancakes that were baked on Maslenitsa turn out to be especially tasty.
Maslenitsa has always been famous not only for its rich treats and lush, hearty feasts: throughout the entire Maslenitsa week, people have fun, ride down the slides, organize dances, folk singing and make bonfires.
The most basic tradition of Maslenitsa is the burning of a Maslenitsa effigy on a fire.
This action symbolizes the departure of the winter that is boring to everyone. People rejoice and welcome the long-awaited spring.
Maslenitsa week
Before the adoption of Christianity, Maslenitsa was celebrated for 14 days; today it lasts 7 days.
They prepared for the celebration of Maslenitsa in advance and very carefully.
According to tradition, before the start of Maslenitsa, it was mandatory to visit all your relatives, neighbors and friends, and invite them to visit you.
Throughout the week of celebration, in addition to other festive foods, delicious and satisfying pancakes were baked. They were eaten at home, if visiting, or at street celebrations.
This delicious tradition has been preserved to this day.
Each day of Maslenitsa week has its own name and its own celebration traditions.
- Monday - the first day of Maslenitsa is called “Meeting”.
On this day, they set up and rolled out ice slides, made a stuffed animal out of straw and installed it on the mountain, started baking pancakes, went to relatives and discussed with them how to spend the holiday week.
- Tuesday – “Flirting”.
On this day, it was customary to have fun games, slide down slides, eat and treat people to pancakes. On this day, according to tradition, bride viewings were held. In fact, all Maslenitsa rituals boiled down to matchmaking in order to get married after Lent.
- Wednesday is "Gourmand".
On this day, all housewives prepare various goodies in large quantities and decorate a rich table with them, but pancakes, of course, come first. Sons-in-law visit their mothers-in-law, and on Friday they invite them to their place.
- Thursday – “Run out.”
From this day on, Maslenitsa unfolds in all its breadth: festivities last from morning to evening, people danced, danced in circles, sang songs and ditties. The people indulged in all kinds of fun, rode on slides, swings, held fist fights, horse riding and noisy feasts.
- Friday – “Mother-in-Law’s Evenings.”
On this day, sons-in-law invite their mothers-in-law to visit and treat them to pancakes, and the son-in-law was obliged to personally invite his mother-in-law in the evening.
- Saturday – “Sister-in-Law’s Gatherings.”
On this day, the young daughter-in-law invited her relatives to her place, treated them to pancakes and gave them gifts.
- Resurrection – “Forgiveness Sunday.”
On this day, it is customary to ask forgiveness from all loved ones, relatives and friends for intentionally or accidentally inflicted insults. After this, you can start singing, dancing and feasting.
At the end of the holiday, a straw effigy, the main “heroine” of the Maslenitsa holiday, is burned on a huge bonfire and they say goodbye to winter.
“Pancake traditions” - recipes and ideas for pancake treats
The main delicacy of the entire Maslenitsa week is, of course, pancakes.
Since ancient times, the tradition has been preserved of preparing pancakes in a wide variety of ways, and eating them with butter, sour cream, honey, caviar, fish and vegetable fillings.
Which pancakes are the most delicious and what makes them tastier – it’s hard to say, because everyone has their own opinion on this matter, their own tastes.
Some believe that pancakes without sour cream are not pancakes, others recognize only sweet pancakes with sweet fruit fillings, and still others adore pancakes with caviar or red fish.
There are no pancakes that are “mandatory” on this holiday: everyone chooses their own.
In Rus' there was a custom: the first cooked pancake was never eaten; as a rule, it was given to a beggar to remember all the deceased, or it was simply placed on the window.
Pancakes are baked throughout the entire Maslenitsa week.
To ensure that you don’t get tired of this dish over the course of seven days, of course, you can master several recipes for this delicacy and prepare a variety of pancakes, surprising your family and friends every day with delicious and original recipes.
The main thing in pancakes is, of course, the dough, and baking them is a real art.
Any generous housewife wants to cook delicious pancakes and please her family and friends with her art, without spending a lot of time.
If you didn’t have time to master several recipes in advance, it doesn’t matter, you can easily do this during this week. Having quickly gotten the hang of it, you will easily change the composition of the dough, adjusting it to your taste, you will deftly select and prepare delicious fillings and sauces to serve your pancakes at your discretion, it’s simple and you will definitely succeed!
The fillings for baked pancakes can be very different: sweet, fruit, curd, vegetable, mushroom. It all depends on your imagination and your taste preferences.
If you love fish, then for fish fillings you can use any one you like: salted red fish, herring, hot or cold smoked mackerel, smoked cod or pink salmon, and so on.
Various pates are also good for pancakes. And those with a sweet tooth can top their pancakes with honey, condensed milk, jam or syrup.
Let's take a closer look at the most delicious pancake recipes for Maslenitsa.
What pancakes to cook for Maslenitsa - delicious recipes
Thin pancakes with milk for Maslenitsa
This is the most common pancake recipe.
In order for the pancakes to turn out thin and tender, it is very important to correctly guess the consistency of the dough.
The dough for pancakes with milk is kneaded to the consistency of liquid sour cream - it should flow easily from a spoon, but it should not be too liquid, i.e. it should just “drain” and not “flow”.
The dough of this consistency quickly covers the bottom of the pan, and thanks to this the pancakes turn out thin.
Traditionally, vegetable oil or melted butter is added to milk pancake dough: it is necessary to avoid burning.
In addition, then the pancakes get a beautiful “porous” texture.
Thin pancakes with milk are an English version of traditional fluffy Russian pancakes baked with yeast.
In ancient times, in Rus', only such pancakes were prepared: thick, fluffy and satisfying. In Europe, pancakes look like thin, almost transparent “napkins”.
In France they are called “crepes” and are served with hundreds of different fillings.
The main secret of thin pancakes is the batter: the thinner the batter, the thinner the pancake.
Before pouring the first pancake into the frying pan, you need to warm it up well.
The readiness of the pancake is determined by when it begins to brown around the edges.
You can get a real “openwork version” of pancakes, so that they really “fit into the hole”, if you add some of the milk from the recipe to the dough a little hot.
Ingredients
- Wheat flour – 400 grams.
- Sugar – 2 tables. spoons.
- Chicken egg – 4 pieces.
- Milk – 1 liter.
- Salt on the tip of a knife.
- Vegetable oil (or melted butter) – 2 tablespoons. spoons.
Preparation:
- Beat the eggs and sugar thoroughly, gradually adding flour and salt.
- Pour in the milk, stir and leave for 20 minutes.
- Then add vegetable oil to the dough and fry the pancakes in a very hot frying pan.
Pancakes with kefir - a recipe for thin custard pancakes
Making thick pancakes with kefir is quite simple.
But how to cook them with kefir with thin, beautiful and delicate holes?
Fermented milk products in the dough tend to “fluff” it, and pancakes made with this dough become like fluffy pancakes, only larger in size.
These kefir pancakes “with holes” are delicious to eat on their own, for example, with tea or coffee, maybe with sour cream, honey, jam, or you can prepare any filling to your liking and use such pancakes as a base.
It will be delicious in ANY case!
Ingredients
- 400 ml. kefir,
- 200 ml. water,
- 2 chicken eggs,
- 250 grams of flour,
- 2 table. spoons of vegetable oil,
- 3 table. spoons of sugar,
- 0.5 tsp. soda,
- a pinch of salt.
Preparation:
- Beat eggs with sugar and salt, add kefir, sifted flour and beat thoroughly again.
- Boil water, stir soda in it and pour this solution in a thin stream into the dough, mixing everything thoroughly and continuously.
- If the dough is not liquid enough, you just need to add a little more warm water.
- Then you need to add 1 tbsp to the dough. spoon of vegetable oil, mix and let the dough stand for 10-15 minutes.
- Pancakes are baked in a very hot frying pan, which is pre-greased with a small amount of oil, until golden brown - about 1 minute on each side.
Fluffy buckwheat pancakes
These are yeast pancakes with buckwheat flour according to a real ancient Slavic recipe.
Very tasty, very original, be sure to cook it!
Ingredients
- 75 grams of wheat flour,
- 75 grams of buckwheat flour,
- 7 grams of fresh yeast,
- 5 grams of salt (if you want sweet, then take a pinch of salt and 1-2 tablespoons of sugar),
- 2 chicken eggs,
- 80 grams of sour cream,
- 150 grams of milk.
Preparation:
- Combine flour, salt and yeast. Heat the milk.
- · Divide the eggs into white and yolk, combine the yolks with sour cream and hot milk, add this mixture to the dry ingredients. Stir very thoroughly and leave on the table for 1.5 hours, covering with a towel on top.
- After 1-1.5 hours, beat the whites into a foam, add to the dough, stir and leave for another 2 hours.
- Then you no longer need to stir the dough, but immediately bake it in a small frying pan, lightly greasing it with vegetable oil.
American style pancakes with cream
Then, when you want variety, delicate creamy pancakes will be just right!
Ingredients
- 3 eggs,
- 500 ml. cream 10% fat,
- 300 grams of flour,
- 6 tbsp. l. Sahara,
- salt, vanillin and cinnamon - all on the tip of a knife,
- 0.5 tsp. soda,
- maple syrup - to your taste.
Preparation:
- Carefully separate the yolks from the whites, beat the whites with salt, and mix the yolks with sugar, vanillin and cinnamon, add soda, and add cream and flour in portions, stirring with a whisk.
- Add whipped whites to the resulting mass.
- Heat a frying pan and pour in the dough using a ladle. It does not need to be distributed over the entire surface; the pancakes should be 10–12 cm in diameter. No oil is used as the dough contains enough fat for frying.
- Serve with maple syrup of your choice.
"Pancakes in a Bottle"
This is a very convenient cooking option: you don’t need to use a whole bunch of dishes and kitchen equipment, preparing dough and pancakes takes a minimum amount of time. Clean, no drips dripping from the ladle!
As a result, you get a clean kitchen, clean dishes and delicious, flavorful pancakes to boot!
Ingredients
- 600 ml. milk,
- 3 tbsp. l. vegetable oil,
- 2 eggs,
- 3 tbsp. l. Sahara,
- 0.5 tsp. salt,
- 10 tbsp. l. flour with a “slide”.
Preparation:
- Rinse a 1.5-liter bottle of mineral water, insert a watering can into the neck and pour flour, sugar, salt through it, pour in eggs, vegetable oil and milk. Screw the cap on the bottle and shake it well. The dough in the bottle is stirred one-two-three times, very convenient!
- Place the frying pan on the fire, heat it up and add a few drops of vegetable oil.
- Pour the batter into the frying pan directly from the bottle and bake pancakes.
Pancakes for Maslenitsa on the water - a simple recipe
Perfect pancakes that are suitable for both sweet and savory fillings.
Ingredients
- 600 ml. water,
- 300 grams of flour,
- 3 eggs,
- 0.5 tsp each salt, soda and citric acid,
- 2 tbsp. l. Sahara,
- 1 tbsp. l. olive oil.
Preparation:
- Beat eggs, add 500 ml. water and mix again.
- Mix 100 ml separately in a cup. water and citric acid.
- In a separate bowl, mix flour, salt, and soda.
- Add the flour mixture to the liquid ingredients and knead the dough without lumps. Let the dough stand for 20 minutes. Then add water with citric acid dissolved in it and mix again.
- Grease the pan with vegetable oil if necessary and bake pancakes on both sides.
- Grease the finished pancakes with butter.
Custard pancakes with milk for Maslenitsa
Ingredients
- 500 ml. milk,
- 4 eggs,
- 2 tbsp. l. sunflower oil,
- 250 grams of flour,
- 1 tsp. soda,
- 0.5 tsp. wine vinegar,
- 250 ml. boiling water
- 10 grams vanilla sugar,
- a pinch of salt,
- 2 tbsp. l. Sahara.
Preparation:
- Beat sugar, vanilla sugar, salt and eggs thoroughly with a whisk, add sunflower oil, 250 ml. milk and stir.
- Add flour and stir until the consistency of thick sour cream. Add the remaining milk and stir.
- Quench the soda with vinegar and immediately pour into the dough. Mix.
- Immediately after the baking soda, pour in boiling water and stir the dough well.
- Fry the pancakes in a well-heated frying pan on both sides.
Cheese pancakes - delicious recipe
Incredible, savory taste of pancakes! We highly recommend making and trying these pancakes during Maslenitsa week.
The taste of cheese pancakes depends very much on the taste and type of cheese that you add to the dough. Choose according to your taste, try several types of cheese - you will have a “Four Cheese” pizza - it’s so delicious!
Can be used for both hard and soft cheeses. If soft cheese is difficult to grate, then simply cool it a little in the freezer, and the process will be successful.
Ingredients
- 1.5 glasses of milk,
- 2 eggs,
- 1 cup flour,
- 150 grams of cheese,
- 1 tsp each salt, sugar and baking powder,
- 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil,
- dill - to taste.
Preparation:
- Heat the milk and mix it with sugar, salt and eggs. Add sifted flour with baking powder.
- Grate the cheese on a fine grater and add to the liquid mass. Then add finely chopped herbs, if desired, and vegetable oil. Mix well with a whisk.
- Bake in a greased and hot frying pan on both sides. Grease each prepared pancake with butter.
We hope you enjoy these Maslenitsa pancake recipes!!!
We wish you bon appetit and a fun, satisfying Maslenitsa week!
Let only your first pancake be lumpy, and let the rest be a success to the glory and joy of your kind guests!
Happy Maslenitsa!!!
A bright holiday is coming soon - Maslenitsa. This is a holiday of seeing off winter and welcoming spring. The main treat for Maslenitsa has always been pancakes.
There are a lot of different pancake recipes, from simple and traditional to quite interesting and very tasty. In this article I want to talk about, in my opinion, the most successful of them. Those pancake recipes that I used and prepared myself.
Thin milk pancakes, classic with holes
This is a classic recipe. Our grandmothers and mothers cooked according to it. They were always filling and appetizing. In order for the pancakes to be thin and with holes, you need:
- First, the thinner the dough, the thinner the pancake.
- Second, heat half the milk and pour it hot into the dough.
- 300 gr. flour
- 3 eggs
- half tsp salt
- about 3 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 750 ml. milk
- 2.5 gr. baking powder
- 50 ml. refined sunflower oil
Cooking method:
First you need to sift the flour into a container, then add baking powder, granulated sugar and salt.
Then break 3 eggs and 125 grams of milk there. Beat the dough thoroughly with a blender. Then slowly, without stopping whisking, add the rest of the milk.
As a result, the dough should look like liquid sour cream. Finally, add vegetable oil and mix again.
Pour a thin layer of dough into a fairly hot frying pan, coated with oil, and turn the pancake, browned on the first side, onto the second side. When it is fried, remove it with a spatula.
The pancakes according to this recipe come out thin, lacy, very tasty, you will lick your fingers!
Video: Step-by-step recipe for making thin milk pancakes with holes
In order for our dough to really be choux, it is necessary to pour boiling water during cooking.
You need:
- 160 gr. flour,
- 2 eggs,
- half tsp salt,
- 60 gr. granulated sugar,
- 250 ml. milk,
- 50 ml. sunflower oil,
- 250 ml. boiling water
Cooking method:
First you need to beat the eggs in a container with the addition of salt and granulated sugar.
Next, add the sifted flour and milk. And then pour boiling water and oil.
Stir everything properly and begin baking pancakes in a preheated and greased frying pan.
Pancakes with boiling water come out very tasty, thin, openwork with holes.
Ingredients:
- 150 gr. flour,
- 2 eggs,
- half tsp salt,
- 25 gr. granulated sugar,
- 250 ml. low-fat kefir or any other fermented milk product,
- 50 milliliters sunflower oil,
- 250 milliliters of water,
- 5 grams of baking soda.
Cooking method:
Beat the eggs in a blender until foam appears. Continuing to beat the eggs, add salt and add hot boiled water.
Then pour in kefir or other light fermented milk product and mix well.
Pass the flour through a sieve, add baking soda, granulated sugar and add sunflower oil. Mix the mixture of eggs and kefir and flour.
We bake pancakes in a heated frying pan, seasoned with sunflower oil until golden brown on each side.
These pancakes are filling, soft and tender. They can be prepared without soda. Instead of soda, the finished dough should be placed in the refrigerator for two hours. Then the pancakes will be airy.
Thin pancakes on water with eggs for Maslenitsa
Pancakes on the water are a fairly simple and budget-friendly dish.
To prepare these pancakes you will need the following products:
- 300 gr. flour,
- 3 eggs,
- half tsp salt,
- 25 grams of granulated sugar,
- 750 milliliters of boiled water,
- 50 milliliters of sunflower oil.
Preparation:
Mix eggs with salt, granulated sugar and boiled water in an enamel or glass container, beat with a blender or mixer until light foam.
Add vegetable oil, sifted flour through a sieve and mix thoroughly again.
Fry the pancakes in a heated frying pan, seasoned with oil until golden brown on each side.
Thick and fluffy pancakes
Ingredients:
- 300 gr. flour,
- 3 eggs,
- half tsp salt,
- 75 gr. granulated sugar (if you want to make pancakes with filling, then you need to put a little less sugar),
- half tsp soda,
- 500 ml. boiled water,
- half tsp lemon juice or acid
- 20 gr. sunflower or other vegetable oil.
Preparation:
First, beat the eggs thoroughly, then pour in water and add granulated sugar, beat again. How fluffy and tender our pancakes will be depends on how this mass is whipped.
Mix flour, lemon soda and salt. Add the mixture of eggs, sugar and water, beat until smooth.
Then the pancake mixture should stand for about a quarter of an hour, then add sunflower oil, mix and bake our pancakes in a well-heated frying pan.
Pancakes made with water are quite elastic, so they are well suited for wrapping various fillings.
If you don’t have milk or kefir on hand - recipes for excellent water pancakes .
Pancakes for Maslenitsa for every day of the week - 7 recipes for delicious filled pancakes
And now, guys, there’s a “Bonus” for you - 7 recipes for the most delicious pancakes for Maslenitsa for every day of the week.
In addition to the above examples, I advise you to diversify the Maslenitsa menu and bake pancakes with filling - with meat, with red caviar or fish, sweet with cottage cheese, with cheese, with liver, with chicken, with mushrooms and dietary with broccoli.
Surprise and treat all your family, loved ones and guests with the variety of the festive Maslenitsa table. Just try to be in a good mood at the time of cooking - cook with soul and love.
Pancakes themselves are very tasty and a favorite dish of many people. And if you add some kind of filling to them, of which there are a great many options, then this will add even more benefits to this dish.
Fillings can be meat, fish, vegetable, fruit, sweet, curd, mushroom and so on. There are a lot of options. I have chosen the most delicious and exotic ones for you.
As mentioned above, for spring rolls we take a recipe for water pancakes.
Recipe for pancakes with meat for Maslenitsa
Pancakes with meat remain the most common and beloved by all. For them you need to take 500 grams of minced meat and fry it in a frying pan with one onion, season with salt and pepper to taste. You can wrap the filling in pancakes. It's simple!
Pancakes with red fish are quite tasty. Take any lightly salted red fish, finely chop the fillet, mix with soft curd cheese and any greens you prefer. The filling is ready!
Sweet pancakes with cottage cheese and berries
In summer, it is possible to make fillings from different berries and cottage cheese. It can be very tasty if you mix 200 grams of berries (strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, black currants, etc.), 25 grams of granulated sugar, 200 grams of cottage cheese and 20 grams of low-fat sour cream in a blender.
The beef liver filling is prepared as follows: boil half a kilogram of liver, pass it through a meat grinder, fry it along with finely chopped 3 onions and 2 carrots. Boil 2 eggs, chop finely and add to the main mixture, add salt, pepper and mix. Can be added to pancakes!
For those who like their food to be not only tasty, but also healthy, cheese filling with broccoli will suit you. Heat 150 milliliters of cream and add 50 grams of cheddar and parmesan cheeses, stirring constantly. The cheeses should dissolve and the sauce should thicken. Next, boiled broccoli florets are placed on the pancakes, poured with sauce and rolled up. Real jam!
Savory pancakes with cheese and horseradish
For those who like something spicier, the filling with cheese and horseradish is suitable. It is very easy and simple to prepare. Bunch of dill, 200 gr. butter, the same amount of cheese and one teaspoon of grated horseradish are whipped in a blender. And pancakes are filled with this mixture.
Pancakes with mushrooms
Mushroom filling with cheese sauce. Fry 1 onion and half a kilogram of champignons. Then add 30 grams of flour and mix. Next, pour one and a half glasses of milk into the pan, add about 50 grams of sour cream, salt and pepper to taste. Mix again.
When the mixture boils, turn it off. Then apply this mixture to the pancakes, roll them into a tube, place them on a baking sheet, sprinkle grated cheese on top and place them in an oven preheated to two hundred degrees for a quarter of an hour.
Video recipe: Thin pancakes with chicken and mushrooms
There is some similarity in the preparation of all the recipes listed, however, you can add a little variety, which depends on your preferences, desire to save money and concern for your own health.
For example, instead of flour you can add cereal flakes, the pancakes will be lighter and healthier.
Instead of vegetable oil, the frying pan can be greased with half a potato greased with vegetable oil or a piece of lard.
You can also omit butter from the dough if you wish.
It is necessary to sift the flour. Only in this case your pancakes will turn out more tender because while we sift the flour, it is saturated with oxygen and becomes airier.
To make the pancakes even more tender and airy, at the end of preparing the dough, add whites whipped with a blender into foam. To make them whip easier, put the whites in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
Pancakes taste better if they have just been removed from the frying pan, as they say, piping hot.
You need to stack the prepared pancakes on top of each other in a warm plate and grease each freshly baked pancake with butter.
Well, now you know and know how to cook the most important dish for Maslenitsa. By the way, you don’t have to wait for the national holiday to come, but whip it up right in the middle of the week, invite them to pancakes and treat them to all your loved ones and acquaintances.
See off the winter fun and satisfying!
Why are pancakes baked specifically for Maslenitsa? How to bake the most delicious pancakes and what to serve them with are questions that you will find answers to in this article.
One of the most satisfying holidays is Maslenitsa; in terms of the amount of food it is second only to the New Year.
The main treat on the festive table is pancakes. Pancakes with a wide variety of fillings and minced meats: sweet, salty, fresh, sour.
Cooking pancakes for Maslenitsa is a whole science. You need to calculate the number of pancakes, fillings and ingredients for them. Ideally, there should be pancakes on the table not only in stacks, there should be rolls, bags and envelopes of pancakes.
In this article we will tell you where the tradition of baking pancakes on Maslenitsa came from and which pancakes are considered the most delicious!
Pancake rolls with filling
Maslenitsa - the holiday of pancakes: traditions and rituals with pancakes
The tradition of baking pancakes is surrounded by an aura of mystery and mystery. Now it is impossible to say with one hundred percent accuracy why exactly they started baking pancakes. One theory says that in Antiquity there was a tradition according to which the dead were remembered with pancakes, and the ritual of burning an effigy commemorated the funeral. Subsequently, people separated the negative side of this tradition and began to organize festivities and performances in public.
Another theory says that Maslenitsa is the period when winter meets spring. And the ritual of burning an effigy is nothing more than saying goodbye to winter and welcoming spring.
The tradition of baking pancakes takes its roots from the Slavs Maslenitsa, according to tradition, lasts a week. And each day of this week has a name and its own characteristics.
The entire week of Maslenitsa is also called cheese week, because it was allowed to eat dairy and fermented milk products in large quantities.
Monday, aka “meeting”. The day when people celebrate Maslenitsa. The main activity is considered to be rolling out a slide on which a dressed up scarecrow stands. According to legend, the one whose sleigh goes the farthest will have the richest harvest that year. The stuffed animal is dressed up in old women's sundresses, decorated with ribbons and taken around the villages.
Tuesday, aka “Zigrysh”. The name itself suggests that people “played”, that is, on this day large-scale celebrations, performances, and visits to all their friends “for pancakes” began. Buffoons and mummers walked the streets and organized competitions and concerts.
The most noisy celebrations were on Maslenitsa Wednesday, aka “Gourmand”. On this day people could eat plenty! They made the most delicious filled pancakes and the most delicious drinks. They treated relatives, guests and even random passers-by. On this day, the tables were literally bursting with food. No matter how many pancakes the housewives cooked, everything was sure to be eaten.
Pancakes are also revered in Rus' Thursday, aka “Razgulyay”. The busiest day of the week. Men get into fist fights and storm snow forts. And before this, people ride on sleighs around the village clockwise to help the sun drive away winter faster and help spring take its place.
Winter fun on Cheese Thursday Friday, aka “mother-in-law’s evening”. From the name it is clear who owned the Friday of the “cheese” week. On this day, mothers-in-law were waiting for their sons-in-law to have delicious pancakes. If a son-in-law refused an invitation, it was considered an insult to the family. Sometimes, because of such a refusal, real hostility could begin.
The most delicious pancakes are at the mother-in-law's Saturday, aka “sister-in-law’s get-togethers”. On this day, the daughters-in-law received guests. As a rule, only close relatives were guests. Just like on “mother-in-law’s evening,” the sisters-in-law had to surprise everyone with their culinary skills and prepare the most delicious pancakes. Guests should not leave hungry.
“Sister-in-law’s gatherings” - tasty, satisfying and with soul Sunday, also known as “Forgiveness Sunday”. The day when people ask each other for forgiveness for everything. The day is very eventful. After no trace of old grievances remains, people go for walks again. On this day, an effigy is burned. The ritual is accompanied by round dances, songs and dances. In the evening we usually went to the cemetery to remember the dead.
On the last day of Maslenitsa, all grievances are forgiven The next day, Monday, begins Lent, which will last until Easter.
What do pancakes symbolize on Maslenitsa?
It’s not for nothing that pancakes are baked on Maslenitsa. The pancake is a symbol of the sun, and the sun is a symbol of Maslenitsa.
Pancakes are very similar in shape, color and size to the sun - just as round, rosy, golden and hot! Pancakes provide warmth during the February frosts, just as the first sun warms the frozen ground.
You can’t imagine Maslenitsa without sun and pancakes To whom was the first pancake dedicated to Maslenitsa?
A long time ago, Maslenitsa was called the interesting word “Komoyeditsa”. Comas are bears. The Slavs believed that bears are the guardians of the forest and the ancestors of all living people. Therefore, bears were highly revered and it was to them that the first pancake was taken directly to the forest.
This is interesting! The well-known expression “The first pancake is a coma” means not at all that the first pancake always turns out unsuccessful, but that the first pancake is given to the comatose people. That is, the forest guardians - bears.
Sometimes the souls of deceased ancestors were called comas, and the first pancake, accordingly, was dedicated to them.
Komoeditsa - the ancient name of Maslenitsa How to make pancake batter for Maslenitsa: recipe
The thing that made the pancakes incredibly fluffy, airy and white was snow. Yes, yes, it was snow that was the basis of the dough for Maslenitsa pancakes. Moreover, this snow had to be collected in advance and always in the light of the month!
When they collected snow, the housewives said: “A month, you are a month, your golden horns! Look out the window, blow on the dough!”
Dough - the basis for pancake dough An important factor when preparing Maslenitsa pancakes was the mood of the housewife who was preparing the pancakes. It is no secret that the dough absorbs a person’s energy at the time of preparation. Therefore, the better the mood of the person who cooked the pancakes, the better the pancakes turned out.
But the recipe for pancakes for Maslenitsa has not survived to this day. Maybe because such recipes were not written down and were kept secret by the hostess. Or maybe because every woman prepared pancakes for Maslenitsa according to a special recipe - her own.
Recipe for delicious pancakes for Maslenitsa with milk
Pancakes made with milk turn out especially thin, light, and “velvety.” Undoubtedly, when preparing milk pancakes there are subtleties and secrets, which we will now tell you about.
Interesting! If the pancakes turn out to be dry and tough, brush them with melted butter and stack them on top of each other. The dough will absorb the oil and become soft, pliable and elastic.
Pancakes with milk - the main dish on the table Ingredients:
- milk - 500 g
- water - 200 ml
- sugar - 80 g
- eggs - 80 g or 2 pieces
- salt - 0.5 tsp.
- flour - 220 g
- vegetable oil - 3 tbsp.
- butter - to taste, useful for greasing pancakes
Preparation:
- Combine in a large bowl: water, milk, salt and sugar. Stir until smooth.
- Beat the eggs into the egg-milk mixture using a whisk.
- Sift the flour into a bowl so that there are no lumps or foreign impurities.
- Gradually pour the prepared flour into the “dough” in portions, stirring continuously.
- Add vegetable oil to the finished dough so that the pancakes are better separated from the pan.
- Heat a large frying pan with a thick bottom and grease with vegetable oil.
- Pour the batter into the frying pan in portions and fry the pancakes in the classic way.
- Grease each prepared pancake with butter. This way the pancakes will have a more delicate taste.
- Serve with condensed milk, sweet jam, marmalade or your favorite jam.
You will definitely love these pancakes! Here is another very worthy recipe for milk pancakes. With this method of cooking, the pancakes come out very thin, delicate, “velvety”.
Ingredients:
- flour - 230-250 g
- milk - 500 ml
- eggs - 120 g or 3 pcs.
- salt - 1 tsp.
- granulated sugar - 80 g
- vegetable oil - 50 ml
Preparation:
- Combine eggs with salt and sugar.
- Beat with a mixer to a fluffy foam.
- Sift flour through a fine sieve.
- Add 150 ml of warm milk (not hot!) to the egg mixture and stir.
- Gradually add 3-4 tablespoons of prepared flour to the liquid mixture and mix.
- Add the remaining milk and stir. You may not have to add all the remaining milk; use the consistency of the dough as a guide.
- Heat the frying pan very well, grease with vegetable oil.
- Pour the pancake batter into the frying pan in portions and cook the pancakes in the classic way.
Velvet pancakes with milk - a godsend for housewives Recipe for pancakes with honey for Maslenitsa
Honey is the most valuable product produced by bees. It contains a huge amount of useful substances. You can learn more about the benefits of honey from our website.
It is customary to pour honey over pancakes when serving, because the beneficial qualities of honey disappear during heat treatment. But amateurs can replace sugar with honey in the dough recipe. Then the pancakes will have a slightly different color.
Ingredients:
- milk - 500 ml
- flour - 260 g
- eggs - 40 g or 1 pc.
- honey - 80-100 g
- salt - 5 g
- vegetable oil - 50 ml
Preparation:
- Do not sift the flour, immediately mix it with salt.
- Beat an egg into the flour, add honey and grind.
- Add milk to the dough to obtain the consistency of liquid sour cream.
- At the end, add vegetable oil to the dough.
- Bake pancakes in a well-heated frying pan greased with vegetable oil in the manner familiar to you.
What do you eat pancakes with on Maslenitsa?
Pancakes on Maslenitsa are eaten with completely different fillings. Some people like very sweet fillings, such as cottage cheese with jam or honey, others like pancakes with caviar and butter.
In this article we will tell you what and how you can eat pancakes with in order to appreciate their taste to the maximum.
The easiest way to eat pancakes is with jam. The jam can be anything. Surely everyone has tried pancakes from their grandmother or mother with currant, raspberry, strawberry or cherry jam. But there is also jam made from lemon, gooseberries, cherry plums, zucchini and tangerines. Any of these jams will go perfectly with Maslenitsa pancakes!
Another good and affordable option for pancake filling is chocolate. You can sprinkle chocolate on pancakes by first grating the bar. You can put a few slices of chocolate on a freshly prepared hot pancake, roll the pancake into an envelope and eat it. The longest option is to melt the chocolate and pour it over the hot pancakes. The chocolate will become even more liquid and make this dessert taste fantastic.
If you see in a cafe or restaurant in the list of desserts pancakes with ice cream— feel free to take this dish. The combination of cold ice cream, which slowly melts, and hot pancakes will not leave anyone indifferent. The pancakes acquire a creamy taste and simply melt in your mouth.
An original combination - pancakes with ice cream Why not eat something healthy for Maslenitsa? For example, they go great with pancakes fresh fruits and berries. This way, your figure will be safe, and you will get no less pleasure from eating than from pancakes with condensed milk.
Pancake filling recipes for Maslenitsa
During Maslenitsa, it is customary to put only the best treats on the table, so pancakes are prepared with cottage cheese, caviar, mushrooms, meat, fish, cheese, and this is not a complete list. Let's start in order.
Pancakes with cottage cheese. This is one of the most common combinations. This filling can be either sweet or salty. To prevent the pancakes from this recipe from turning out dry, take cottage cheese with a high percentage of fat content and add sour cream or cream to it.
Ingredients:
- fat cottage cheese - 300 g
- sour cream - 150 g
- or cream - 100 g
- sugar - to taste
- egg - 20 g or 0.5 pcs.
- spices (cinnamon, vanillin) - to taste
- ready-made pancakes
Preparation:
- Mix cottage cheese with sour cream; sometimes the cottage cheese needs to be rubbed through a sieve if it is grainy.
- Add sugar, half a raw egg and spices to the cottage cheese with sour cream or cream, knead so that no grains of sugar remain. Sometimes the filling is prepared without eggs.
- Take the prepared pancake, place a tablespoon of filling in the center of the pancake, and roll the pancake into an envelope.
- Lightly fry the pancake in a frying pan so that it does not unfold.
- You can wrap the filling in a roll; to do this, place the filling on one of the edges of the pancake and wrap it in a roll. This pancake is placed seam side down in a frying pan and also fried.
Pancakes with cottage cheese - a complete sweet dish for lunch or breakfast Pancakes with caviar are a holiday dish. Due to the fact that caviar is quite expensive, many people buy it quite rarely. But one cannot help but note the taste of pancakes with caviar: the salty-sour taste of caviar goes well with the bland taste of pancakes. Please note that if you decide to choose this filling, do not make the pancakes too salty.
Ingredients:
- caviar red or black - optional
- sour cream - 150 g
- dill greens - 10-15 g
Preparation:
- Place the filling on the prepared pancake in the center or on the side.
- If you put the filling in the center, then wrap the treat in the form of an envelope or bag. If on the edge, then wrap the pancake in the shape of a roll.
- Serve sour cream and herbs separately.
Since ancient times in Rus', pancakes with caviar were considered a delicacy! The third filling on our list is mushrooms. Mushrooms have been famous in Rus' at all times. Any food containing mushrooms does not require the use of additional spices, since the mushrooms themselves have a delicious aroma and taste. Mushroom filling for pancakes can include many ingredients: cheese, sour cream, cream, potatoes, onions, carrots, meat, poultry. But today we will tell you how to prepare the filling for Maslenitsa pancakes from mushrooms, sour cream and cheese.
One of the favorite combinations in Rus' is pancakes with mushrooms. Ingredients:
- ready-made pancakes - optional
- dried mushrooms - 100 g
- sour cream - 200 g
- cheese - 100 g
- salt - to taste
- vegetable oil - 30 ml
- greens - to taste
Preparation:
- Soak the mushrooms in warm water for an hour, boil for 20-30 minutes. Use the decoction to prepare sauces, soups, and broths.
- Cut the mushrooms into small cubes and fry in a frying pan with vegetable oil for 10 minutes.
- Grate the cheese on a fine grater.
- Combine sour cream, mushrooms, add salt, grated hard cheese.
- Place the filling into the prepared pancake and wrap it in an envelope, bag, roll or fan.
- In a frying pan, greased with a drop of oil, fry the pancake until the cheese melts for 1-2 minutes.
- Serve pancakes with onion, dill or parsley.
Pancakes with sour cream and cheese are a great treat Pancakes with cheese are another delicacy. This filling began to be used relatively recently, because it requires as many as three types of cheese.
Ingredients:
- ready-made pancakes - optional
- Dor Blue cheese – 100 g
- Mozzarella cheese - 100 g
- Edam cheese - 100 g
- greens - 20-30 g
Preparation:
- Finely chop all 3 types of cheese, you can grate them.
- Finely chop the greens too.
- Combine chopped cheeses and herbs.
- Place the resulting filling into the prepared pancake and wrap it in any way convenient for you. Please note that the pancake must be hot so that the cheese begins to gradually melt. Otherwise, keep the filled pancake on the non-hot side for a couple of minutes.
A simple and tasty dish - pancakes with cheese Unusual pancakes for Maslenitsa
Do you want to surprise your holiday guests? Then prepare pancakes according to one of the most unusual recipes.
You can prepare, for example, openwork pancakes, pancakes with seasoning, or with a pattern. After all, you can experiment not only with fillings and dough composition, but also with shapes!
Try pancakes according to foreign recipes, and you will be surprised how the preparation of the same dish differs in different countries.
You can also make pancakes from different doughs. For example, prepare half of the dough in the usual way, and add cocoa or some other coloring to the other half. You will really like the result.
You can read about how to prepare the most unusual pancakes with kefir, milk or water in the article on our website ““.
Fortune telling on pancakes for Maslenitsa
Probably not a single Russian holiday is complete without fortune telling. They tell fortunes using boots, mirrors, flowers, candles, coffee. On Maslenitsa, fortune telling using pancakes is very common.
There are several ways to assign pancakes for Maslenitsa week.
Method number 1. Suitable for married girls. Even at the stage of creating the dough, they look at its quality. If the dough fits well, then the girl will have a good year and her family will not get sick. And if the dough does not fit well, then the year will not be the most successful for the girl and her family.
Method No. 2. Fortune telling by the first pancake. Fortune tellers try to bake the first pancake as best as possible, because it can be used to judge the girl’s future. If the pancake turns out beautiful, with smooth edges, rosy and well baked, the girl will get married, if she hasn’t already. For a married girl, a good first pancake means well-being and prosperity in the family throughout the year.
Method No. 3. This fortune telling was again popular among unmarried girls. If the first pancake turned out good, they took it out onto the street and gave it to a random male passerby, asking his name. The girls believed that their future husband would have the same name as this man.
Method number 4. This fortune telling is suitable for everyone, but it can hardly be called serious. The idea is that girls made a question or a wish, took a pancake from a stack and looked at its pattern, trying to find an answer or some secret sign for themselves. Of course, they tried to see only the good.
Method No. 5. The most delicious way is to tell fortunes using the fillings in pancakes. Only unmarried girls did fortune telling. The point is that the filling could be used to judge the character of the future husband. First, all the girls baked pancakes together and prepared various fillings, and then wrapped the fillings in the pancakes so that it was impossible to guess what was inside.
After that, they took turns taking any pancake they liked. So, a girl who got a pancake with cottage cheese was promised a caring husband. The one who ate the pancake with meat - a smart, wealthy and gentle groom. With sour cream - insecure and timid, with honey - romantic and beautiful, with jam - cunning and cheerful.
Pancake crafts for Maslenitsa
Pancake crafts are a great table decoration. Simple, fast and creative. Surely no one has ever done this!
You can make a house out of pancakes. To do this, do not make the pancakes too fatty and elastic. Let them be slightly dry so that the craft holds its shape well and does not fall apart.
Another unique craft is a bag of filled pancakes. This design of pancakes looks very impressive. You can use green onion feathers or braided cheese as strings.
If there are children at your party, they will definitely appreciate a doll dressed in a dress made of pancakes! To prepare such a miracle, you need to place the body of a Barbie doll on a frame made of a bowl, mug or some other object that is shaped like the hem of a skirt. And on top, dress the doll in a “dress” made of pancakes. You can secure the pancakes with ribbons and threads.
But the next idea for decorating a pancake craft is suitable not only for Maslenitsa, but also for a regular breakfast. Bake small pancakes (pancakes, pancakes), place them in a chain one after another, and make a muzzle on one of the pancakes from fruits and berries. You will get such a cute caterpillar from pancakes.
beautiful idea for decorating a pancake dish The latest idea for decorating pancake crafts for Maslenitsa is roses. These roses can be made from small pancakes, or you can cut the pancake in half and assemble the rose by folding half of the pancake.
A very beautiful idea for decorating a dish with regular pancakes Video: The most delicious pancakes for Maslenitsa
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