What to cook for Shrovetide. Shrovetide dishes

Ingredients for the dough:

• flour - 1 kg.;
• milk (or boiled water) - 250 ml.;
• yeast - 14 gr.;
• salt - a pinch;
• granulated sugar - 4.5 tbsp. heaped spoons;
• chicken eggs - 2 pcs.;
• butter (or vegetable) - 3 tbsp. spoons;

For filling:

• granular cottage cheese - 0.5 kg.;
• granulated sugar - 4.5 tbsp. spoons;
• sour cream 20% - 50 gr.;
• egg - 1 pc.;
• vanillin - a pinch;
• raisins - a handful.

Preparation

1. First, prepare the yeast dough. We heat the milk, pour 2 tbsp into it. tablespoons of granulated sugar, salt, art. a spoonful of flour and dry yeast. Stir thoroughly, leave alone for 7 - 10 minutes. During this time, a foam cap should form.

2. In a clean, deep bowl, beat the eggs with the remaining granulated sugar, add vegetable or butter, pour the flour. Stir.

3. Pour the dough into the egg-sugar mixture, knead the tender dough. Cover with a towel and put in a warm place for a couple of hours.

4. To prepare the filling, first grind the cottage cheese through a sieve, add granulated sugar and vanillin. Beat eggs in a cup, pour over the curd. Stir everything gently.

5. Pour the raisins with boiling water for 10 minutes so that it is steamed.

6. Combine curd and raisins. If the curd mass is too liquid, add a spoonful of flour to it.

7. Knead the dough, put it on a floured table and divide it into even parts. From them we form a cake, in the middle we make a depression with a glass bottom.

8. Grease a baking sheet with vegetable oil or put baking paper. We transfer our tortillas into a mold, put a tablespoon of curd filling into the depression, grease the dough with yolk. We leave the cheesecakes "at rest" for 15 - 20 minutes.

9. Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Put the baking sheet in the oven for 25 - 30 minutes.

10. Our cheesecakes with cottage cheese are ready.

Classic cheesecakes

Ingredients

• cottage cheese - 1 kg.;
• flour - 1 glass;
• eggs - 2 pcs.;
• granulated sugar - 0.5 cups;
• butter - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• salt - 0.5 tsp.

Preparation

1. Add eggs, granulated sugar, salt to a bowl of cottage cheese. Stir everything well. Pour flour in portions. The finished dough should be very tender and not sticky to your hands.

2. Sprinkle the table with flour, spread the curd mass, form a sausage with a diameter of 5 cm from it. With a sharp knife, cut across circles 1 cm thick.

3. Fry in butter until golden brown.


4. Serve with sour cream or jam.

Potato pancakes

Ingredients

• potatoes - 1 kg.;
• onion - 1 pc .;
• flour - 0.5 cups;
• salt to taste;
• soda - a pinch;
• vegetable oil - for frying;
• egg - 2 pcs.

Preparation

1. Peel and peel the potatoes, wash them, three on a coarse grater. Transfer to cheesecloth and squeeze out all the juice.

2. Chop the onion with a knife and add to the potatoes.

3. Mix flour, salt and soda, pour over the potatoes. Mix everything thoroughly.

4. Preheat a frying pan with sunflower oil, spoon out the tortillas, fry them crispy.


5. Serve with sour cream.

Fluffy pancakes

Ingredients

• flour - 300 gr.;
• kefir - 400 ml.;
• chicken egg - 1 pc .;
• granulated sugar - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• salt - a pinch;
• soda - a pinch;
• vegetable oil - for frying.

Preparation

1. Mix the egg with granulated sugar, add salt and kefir. If you do not have kefir, then you can add a little vinegar to the same amount of milk, wait 5 minutes and you will have kefir for pancakes.

2. Sift flour and soda, combine with kefir, spoon or whisk, knead the dough, according to the consistency of thick sour cream. We leave for 20 minutes.

3. Preheat a frying pan with oil. Put 5-6 pancakes with a spoon, fry.

4. Remove excess oil from pancakes with napkins or paper towels.

5. Pancakes can be eaten hot or cold.

Home buns

Ingredients

• flour - 900 gr.;
• milk - 370 ml.;
• instant yeast - 14 gr.;
• granulated sugar - 250 gr.;
• salt - 0.5 tbsp. spoons;
• vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• egg yolk - 2 pcs.

Preparation

1. Mix wheat flour, yeast, 2 tbsp. tablespoons of granulated sugar, salt. Pour warm milk into this mixture and knead a soft dough. Lubricate it with vegetable oil, cover the bowl with a towel, put it in a warm place for an hour.

2. During this time, our dough has doubled in volume, knead it and again cover it with a towel for half an hour.

3. Put the finished dough on a table sprinkled with flour, knead thoroughly. We roll the sausage, cut it across into small pieces, 1 - 2 cm thick.

4. Roll the pieces into balls, then use a rolling pin to give the balls an oval, flattened shape. On the inside, lightly grease with vegetable oil and sprinkle with sugar.

So Shrovetide has come, wide, riotous, merry! These days, even eating was not considered a sin, but there was something to eat. Every day on Shrovetide is called in a special way and is celebrated in a special way.

Monday - Meeting. On this day, pancakes were baked from the very early morning. Each housewife secretly closed the sour dough from everyone, and God forbid anyone looked into the tub - that's all, go away, pancakes won't work. On this day, the first pancake was not eaten, leaving it for the commemoration of the dead. The son's wife was sent with pancakes baked by her to her parents, and in the evening they came for her for pancakes to matchmakers.

Ingredients:
3 stacks buckwheat flour,
2 stacks wheat flour,
1 stack cream,
100 g butter
200 g sour cream
6 eggs
1 liter of milk
25 g of compressed yeast,
1 tbsp Sahara,
1 tbsp salt.

Preparation:
Dissolve buckwheat flour and yeast in 2 glasses of warm milk and leave in a warm place to rise. After an hour of fermentation, add 5 yolks, ground with butter and sour cream, wheat flour, the remaining milk, salt and sugar. Stir thoroughly with a spatula until the dough begins to lag behind it, and set to rise in a warm place for 1.5-2 hours. Whip 6 whites and cream, add them to the matched dough, stir gently, let stand for 10 minutes and bake pancakes.

Tuesday - Play. A day full of hassle for single girls. On this day, the guys walked around the village to visit the girls, ate pancakes and looked at potential brides. So the girls were preparing pancakes and pancakes, with cottage cheese, poppy seeds, with butter and honey and other goodies. By what kind of pancakes and pancakes a guy eats, the girls wondered what kind of husband they would get. In addition to pancakes, there were pies on the table - and from them the guys could try to guess what kind of hostess the girl they liked would be.

Ingredients:
3 eggs,
120 g flour
125 ml of milk
4 tablespoons vegetable oil,
30 ml of sparkling mineral water,
a pinch of salt.

Preparation:
Separate the yolks from the whites and grind them with flour, milk and mineral water. Beat the whites separately until stiff peaks with a pinch of salt, gently insert into the dough and stir. Add vegetable oil and bake thin pancakes, toasting them on one side. Fill the pancakes with the filling to taste, wrap in an envelope and fry in vegetable oil until golden brown. Pancake fillings can be anything you like.

Ingredients:
30 g of compressed yeast,
270 ml of milk
450 g flour
2 tbsp Sahara,
50 g butter
½ tsp salt.
Filling:
500 g of cottage cheese,
4 yolks,
4 tablespoons Sahara,
40 g melted butter
2 tbsp sour cream,
1 tbsp flour (with a slide),
vanilla.

Preparation:
Heat milk to 40 ° С, stir sugar and yeast in it, leave to rise for 10 minutes. Pour melted butter, salt into lined yeast, add sifted flour and knead a smooth dough. Put it in a warm place, let it fit. The dough should double in size. Pucker, let it come up again and divide into 16 parts. Put the resulting buns on a baking sheet lined with parchment and let stand. For the filling, rub the curd through a sieve and mix with the rest of the ingredients. If not very sweet, add sugar. In the center of each bun, press the indentations with a glass to make something like a basket. Lubricate the edges of the baskets with yolk mixed with milk and fill with cottage cheese. Place the cheesecakes in an oven preheated to 200 ° C for 20-30 minutes. Place a pan with water on the bottom so that the cheesecakes do not burn.

Wednesday - Gourmet. Rich tables were set in all houses. And for the mother-in-law, it was a hot time, because on that day it was necessary to treat the son-in-law, and not just bake pancakes, but arrange a real pancake feast! All kinds of pancakes were baked for the beloved son-in-law: large and small, yeast and dairy, with caviar and herring, with jam and honey ... And on the streets numerous tents were set up with all kinds of food. They sold roasted nuts, honey cakes, sbitni.

Ingredients:
1 liter of water
50 g honey
50 g sugar
3 g hop cones,
¼ tsp cinnamon,
3 carnation buds,
3-5 mint leaves.

Preparation:
Add honey, sugar and spices to boiling water. Boil for 10-15 minutes, periodically skimming off the foam. Then remove from heat, let it brew for 30 minutes and strain.

Ingredients:
4 ripe tomatoes,
¾ a glass of milk,
2 eggs,
flour,
salt to taste
greens, grated feta cheese.

Preparation:
Cut the tomatoes into wedges and cook them in a little water until tender. Rub the tomato mass through a sieve, salt, pour in milk, loose eggs and stir. Add enough flour to make a thick sour cream dough. Bake pancakes, fold them in half, sprinkle with chopped herbs and grated cheese.

Thursday - Take a walk. It was on this day that the famous fist fights, the capture of specially built snow fortresses, horseback riding, races from ice slides and competitions for the best pancake in the whole village were held. Remember the famous pictures "Taking of the Snow Town" and "Maslenitsa" or stills from the movie "The Barber of Siberia"? On Thursday, the so-called wide Maslenitsa began, when household chores ceased, and unrestrained fun began. On this day, not only pancakes are baked, but also larks, doves and swallows - the harbingers of spring. In the evening, the children gathered outside the outskirts to click the sun, so that it quickly brought spring.

Ingredients:
3 stacks milk,
2 stacks flour,
2 eggs,
2 tbsp butter,
½ tsp Sahara,
½ tsp salt,
200 g lightly salted red fish,
50 g butter.

Preparation:
Rub the eggs, salt, sugar and butter with a wooden spoon, dilute with milk and pour the mixture into the flour, stirring constantly so that there are no lumps. The dough should be pretty runny. Bake pancakes on both sides. Cut the red fish into thin slices. Place fish slices and a piece of butter in the middle of each pancake.

Ingredients:
1 stack milk,
3-3, 5 stacks of flour,
15 g of compressed yeast,
2 tbsp Sahara,
½ tsp salt,
¼ stack. melted butter
strong sweet tea - for coating.

Preparation:
Dissolve yeast, sugar and salt in warm milk and stir. let it ferment for 10-15 minutes. Gradually add flour to the padded yeast and knead the dough. At the very end of the batch, add melted butter and knead to a smooth dough that won't stick to your hands. Place in a warm place, covered with a napkin. When the dough has doubled, knead it and let it rise again. Then divide the dough into 16 pieces and roll the dough pieces into flagella. Tie the flagella into a knot, flatten the tail and make several cuts on it, pull out the nose and insert the eyes (raisins or buckwheat). Place the pigeons on a baking sheet lined with baking paper, let spacing, brush with strong sweet tea and bake at 180 ° C for 20-25 minutes.

Friday - Mother-in-law evenings. A return visit from the mother-in-law to her son-in-law. At the same time, the day before, the mother-in-law had to send the son-in-law a tub for kneading dough, a frying pan and even a scoop. And the father-in-law sent a sack of flour. And here it was impossible to lose face! The son-in-law had to bake pancakes himself and treat his mother-in-law and father-in-law.

Ingredients:
4 yolks,
800 g flour
3 stacks milk,
400 g butter.
Filling:
3 eggs,
1 can of red caviar,
50 g butter
greens to taste.

Preparation:
Pour the crushed yolks into the sifted flour, mix with flour and pour in the melted butter and milk. Beat with a mixer until a homogeneous mass of heavy cream is obtained. Bake the pancakes in a hot skillet on both sides. For the filling, chop the boiled eggs and chop the herbs. Place a teaspoon of caviar, some eggs, herbs and a small piece of butter in the middle of each pancake. Wrap as you like and serve.

Saturday - Sisters-in-law's gatherings (Seeing off). On Saturday, the young daughter-in-law invited her husband's sisters to her place. If they were not married, the daughter-in-law also invited her unmarried girlfriends. If the sisters-in-law were already married, then all the married girlfriends were invited and the whole train went to visit. It was customary to present the sister-in-law with gifts and, of course, treat them with delicious pancakes, pies or baked fish.

Ingredients:
300 g fish fillet,
1 onion
1 stack kefir,
3 tbsp flour,
1 egg,
salt, ground black pepper, seasonings to taste.

Preparation:
Pass the fish fillet together with the onion 2 times through a meat grinder or chop in a blender. Combine with kefir, beaten egg and flour and season to taste. The dough should look like a pancake. Top up with kefir if necessary. Bake pancakes in a hot skillet with vegetable oil until golden brown.

Ingredients:
200 ml of milk
125 g flour
4 eggs,
2 tbsp Sahara,
2 tsp starch
2 tbsp nuts,
2 tbsp ghee,
1 tsp icing sugar
1 pack of frozen cherries
cinnamon, salt, ground allspice - to taste.

Preparation:
Separate the yolks from the whites and knead them with flour, milk and a pinch of salt. Cover with a tissue and leave warm to swell. Put the cherries in a saucepan, pour 2 stacks. water and boil with sugar, cinnamon and allspice. Dissolve the starch in a little water and add to the cherry compote. Boil for 5 minutes and remove from heat. Chop the nuts finely. Whisk the whites into a fluffy foam, combine with the nuts and add to the dough. Bake the pancakes in a skillet with melted butter. Serve with cherry dessert and powdered sugar.

Ingredients:
5-6 stacks flour,
3 squirrels,
½ stack. milk,
½ stack. water,
½ tsp salt.
Filling:
800 g frozen cherries
½ stack. Sahara,
3 tbsp decoys.

Preparation:
Combine proteins with water, milk and salt and mix well. Gradually add flour and knead into a tough dough. Cover it with a napkin and leave in a warm place for 30-40 minutes. For the filling, defrost the cherries, sprinkle with sugar and semolina and leave for 30 minutes. Then drain and fill the dumplings. Roll out the dough thinly, cut out the circles with a notch, place a teaspoon of filling in the center and pinch the edges. Boil the dumplings in boiling salted water. Serve with butter or sour cream.

Sunday - Goodbye Sunday. The culmination of the holiday is the burning of the effigy of Winter. On this day, everyone asks each other for forgiveness for, willingly or unwillingly, the wrongs inflicted. This is a kind of rite of repentance and cleansing before Great Lent. Even strangers hugged each other and asked each other for forgiveness. Sunday is the last day of holiday treats, on which it was customary to gorge themselves to the full. At the end of the day, the bathhouse was heated, and then everything that remained from the Maslenitsa festivities was burned. The ashes were scattered in the field - for a good harvest, so that there would be something to bake pancakes from for the next year.

Ingredients:
14-16 pcs. any savory pancakes
100-150 g of chicken meat
200 ml sour cream,
200 g of mushrooms
1 onion
4 eggs,
50 g of hard cheese
salt, pepper, dill - to taste.

Preparation:
Cut the chicken into pieces and fry with half of the chopped onion. Season with salt and pepper, add 1 tbsp. sour cream and simmer for 10-15 minutes. Fry the mushrooms separately with the leftover onions. Boil the eggs, chop and combine with chopped dill. Put 3-5 pancakes in the form so that they cover the bottom and sides of the form and hang out. Put a pancake on the bottom, brush with sour cream and lay out the mushrooms. Cover with 1-2 pancakes, add chicken. Put 1-2 pancakes again, press lightly, brush with sour cream and lay out the eggs. Place 1-2 pancakes on top. Roll the edges of the hanging pancakes and sprinkle with grated cheese on top. Place in an oven preheated to 180 ° C for 20-25 minutes.

Ingredients:
200-250 g of mushrooms (champignons, oyster mushrooms, etc.),
1 onion
5-6 tbsp butter,
2-3 tbsp sour cream,
7-8 eggs
½-⅓ stack milk,
40 g cheese
parsley, pepper, salt - to taste.

Preparation:
Boil mushrooms until half cooked, chop finely and simmer with chopped onion and 1 tbsp. oils. At the end of braising, add salt, pepper and sour cream. The filling should be quite thick. Beat eggs with milk, add finely chopped parsley and salt. Divide the egg mass into 3 parts and fry 3 omelets. Place the omelettes in the skillet, shifting them over with the mushroom filling to make a cake. Sprinkle the top layer with grated cheese, pour over melted butter and put in a hot oven for a few minutes to melt the cheese.

Happy Shrovetide!

Larisa Shuftaykina

Pancake Week, Pancake Week, Pancake Maker, Pancake Eater, Obyeduha, Wide Pancake Week ... As soon as the Russian Pancake week was called. And this is far from all the names of the holiday, to which various Slavic villages and peoples gave their colors. There was one thing unchanged in the celebration of the Maslenitsa. Shrovetide was always to be celebrated merrily and noisily.

Pancake pies, pancake salads and even pancake cakes should certainly be served to the pancake table. And on Shrovetide they were special, the recipes of which are also presented at the "Povarenka".

Our people were extremely anxious and enthusiastic about such a holiday as the Russian Shrovetide. Housewives kept traditional family recipes for Shrovetide, children prepared handicrafts and a scarecrow, which was certainly burned at the end of Shrovetide week celebrations, families, friends visited each other, walked around the squares, fairs, organized dances, songs, concerts, and folk festivals. So what are the traditional days of Maslenitsa? How to mark and conduct them correctly?

So, each Shrovetide lasts seven days once a year (until the beginning of the next Great Lent), starting from Monday to Sunday. So the Sunday before Maslenitsa was called "meat". This was the last day that meat was allowed to be eaten. And one could have enough of it that day at a party or at home.

On Monday, the Russian Shrovetide was celebrated with the holiday itself. On this day, it was customary to ride as much as possible from the ice slides - on a sleigh, sled, sled, as well as swing on a swing. It was believed that the higher the celebrants swing, the better the plants will grow next spring.

On the Tuesday of the Maslenitsa, they played merry mass games in the squares and treated themselves to pancakes. This day of Maslenitsa was called "flirting". Wednesday was considered a delicious day. That's when family recipes came in handy (you can find recipes for everything on our website). Everything that the hostess prepared was “tossed” on the table for guests and loved ones.

On Thursday - "take a walk" festivities continued, horseback riding, sleigh rides, fistfights, defenses of the built snow towns. Not a single Russian Shrovetide was complete without a mother-in-law Friday evening. On such days, Slavic sons-in-law visited their mother-in-law's houses, who treated them to homemade pancakes.

The Saturday evening of the Maslenitsa was called "sister-in-law gatherings", during which kindred families visited each other, relatives talked to each other, feasted, and rested with their families.

A special day of the Russian Shrovetide is Forgiveness Sunday. The most frank, most beautiful day of Maslenitsa, during which it was necessary to repent in front of offended people, in front of loved ones, relatives, acquaintances, to ask (but certainly sincerely) all of them for forgiveness and, of course, to forgive in my soul the grievances against them, if any.

Shrovetide is the funniest, brightest and most delicious holiday that marks a farewell to winter. On this day, the spring sun is already warming up, and people, gathering in the squares, are burning a scarecrow of winter. But that's not all. The main thing is the treat. Luxurious pancakes with different fillings and hot strong tea. What else do you need to keep warm and continue the fun ?! And what is cooked for Shrovetide, besides pancakes?

Ancestral traditions

Today they are forgotten. We come across scraps of ancient rituals at weddings, when a child is baptized, but sometimes we don’t think about their meaning. Shrovetide is a very interesting holiday that goes back to the times before Christianity. It is a celebration of the sun, which pancakes represent.

But that's not all. A festive treat on this day is a symbol of fertility and prosperity. That is why so many baked goods are made with a golden warm color. Goodbye cold winter, sunny summer ahead. Today we will take a short excursion into the cooking of our ancestors and find out what is cooked for Shrovetide, except for pancakes.

Variations

Modern housewives no longer want to be limited to pancakes alone, although there are many ways to make the treat interesting and bright here. For example, put mushrooms or caviar as a filling, and collect the pancake in the form of a bag and tie it with a green onion feather. And if you want to be distinguished by originality, then No, not with custard, but with mushrooms and cheese. Of course, next year you will again have to think about what is being prepared for Shrovetide, except for pancakes, but this time you will have an original and bright dish. So, you will need: pre-fried pancakes and hard cheese, sour cream, onions and fresh mushrooms.

Fry onions in a pan, add mushrooms, and when the liquid evaporates, then sour cream. Simmer for 10 minutes. Grate the cheese and immediately divide into 8 parts. Now collect the cake, putting mushrooms and cheese on each pancake. The top layer is decorated with only cheese.

Pancakes

It used to be believed that it is early for a girl to marry until she learns how to bake lush and delicious pancakes. And if you remember what our grandmothers cooked for Shrovetide, in addition to pancakes, then a plate with jam and ruddy pancakes will immediately come to mind. It is not difficult to prepare them, you only need to try them once.

Lazy dumplings

If you are wondering what to cook for Shrovetide, except for pancakes, then you should remember that meat dishes are not welcome these days. But dairy and fish can be eaten in unlimited quantities. If time is short, but you want to treat children to a delicious dessert, then pay attention to the following recipe. It takes 5 minutes to cook and is perfect for breakfast.

• Place a pack of cottage cheese in a cup. Pound well and add the yolk.
• Add 100 g flour and a little salt.
• Stir with a fork until smooth.
• Boil water and salt.
• Now scoop up some dough with a wet spoon and gently shake it into the water.
• Do not close the lid, the products will fall apart with strong boiling.
• As soon as they come up, stir with a slotted spoon and get out in a minute.

Cheesecake

Let's continue to sort out the dishes for Shrovetide. There are recipes for every taste, and in addition, they can be altered in your own way. The most homemade dish is pie. Remember the agonizing wait while mom is busy in the kitchen, and a delicious smell spreads through the rooms. Finally, the whole family is gathered around the table. Considering what is customary to cook for Shrovetide, this wonderful cake cannot be ignored. You need to prepare:

• 500 g puff pastry;
• 500 g of cottage cheese (knead well).
• Add 2 eggs to the curd.
• Add salt and a spoonful of sugar on the tip of a knife.

Now comes the fun part. Cut a circle out of the dough along the diameter of the shape, the lid and the side, that is, the strip. Put the bottom in the mold, lay the side and pour the curd filling. It remains to put the lid on top and bake for 40 minutes until golden brown. It is recommended to serve it warm. Guests will be delighted with this simple and delicious cake.

Syrniki

The best dishes for celebrating Maslenitsa are made on the basis of milk and cottage cheese. Why not offer our guests delicious, tender cheesecakes ?! This does not take long and the result is fantastic. Very often, housewives add a little flour so that the baked goods do not fall apart during frying. You will need:

• Cottage cheese - 0.5 kg, not wet. Add salt on the tip of a knife and 1 teaspoon of sugar.
• It was the turn of the eggs. Drive in 2-3 pieces.
• Stir well.
• Dip the cutlet well in flour and place on hot sunflower oil.
• Fry in a pan.

Best served warm with sour cream.

Deep fried cheese

Very tasty, but fantastic high-calorie dish. But Shrovetide, there is nothing wrong with that. You need 0.5 liters of butter for breading, 2 raw eggs and a slice of cheese. In addition, you need crackers, oregano, and salt.

The preparation is simple. It is enough to cut the cheese into cubes, beat the eggs a little, add salt. Pour oregano on a dish, do the same with breadcrumbs. Dip the cheese first in oregano, then dip in an egg. Now in breadcrumbs, again in an egg and again in breadcrumbs. Fry the cheese over low heat and serve immediately.

Cheesecakes with cottage cheese

What is Shrovetide without fragrant buns ?! And what should the hostess do if she does not have time? You can make delicious cheesecakes in just a little time. The dough is yeast, but it is not difficult to prepare it. Let's prepare the dough:

• Heat a glass of milk until warm.
• Add a little sugar and 30 g of fresh yeast to it.
• Add 0.5 cups flour and leave for 30 minutes.
• After that, add two beaten eggs and three glasses of flour to the dough.

Now mix and heat the dough for another 30 minutes. After that, you need to knead the dough well for 15 minutes. Divide the dough into 12 pieces and roll each into a flat cake. For the filling, grind 0.5 kg of cottage cheese, 1 yolk and 3 tablespoons of sugar. Place a spoonful of filling on each tortilla. We bake for 20 minutes at 180 degrees, grease with milk mixed with butter.

But what about the classics

Any of these dishes can decorate the table, but will not replace itself for the whole week, you need to select proven ones, which we will do today. So, first of all, let's try to make thin pancakes. Lacy, with crisp edges, they are popular with both adults and children. Ingredients:

• 1 liter of milk;
• 4 eggs;
• 450 g flour;
• 2 tablespoons of sugar;
• 1.5 tablespoons of oil;
• 0.3 teaspoons of salt;
• butter for greasing ready-made pancakes.

You will need to prepare the dough. To do this, break eggs into a cup, add salt and sugar. Then add a third of the milk and add all the flour. The dough will turn out like liquid sour cream. It remains to add all the other ingredients. In this case, there will be no lumps.

Pancakes on kefir

If your milk is sour, then don't be upset. After all, you are already making the best pancake recipes. What to cook for Shrovetide, each hostess decides for herself. But the recipe for kefir pancakes will definitely not be superfluous. You will need 2 cups of sour milk, 2 eggs and 2 cups of flour, 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil.

We start by sifting the flour into a large bowl. Add half a teaspoon of salt, a tablespoon of sugar and milk with eggs to it. Wait 30 minutes. After that, dilute a teaspoon of soda with hot water and add to the dough. Bake in a hot skillet.

Instead of a conclusion

Shrovetide is a traditional Russian spring holiday. After a long winter, everyone goes to visit each other and rejoice at the first rays of the sun. Of course, the hostess must prepare for the arrival of guests. For this, traditional dishes are prepared from dairy products. Today we have considered only a small part of what can be prepared for Shrovetide. Based on these recipes, you can come up with a dozen more dishes that will surprise and delight guests.

We cannot do without flour, no matter what pies and pancakes we muddied. We only note that for the preparation of pancakes, a wide variety of types of flour are used - not only wheat, but also, oatmeal, rye... Best of all, in this case, pancakes are obtained from several types of flour, mixed in different proportions ( especially if the main role in this mixture is given to wheat flour), as well as from flour in half with oatmeal.

2. Milk

Buy milk in a bottle, that is, pasteurized, not " long-lasting". If you are going to seriously engage in pancakes and pies, it will take a lot of milk, it will definitely not have time to turn sour.

3. Butter

First, you need butter for the dough. Secondly, you will grease them with freshly fried pancakes stacking them. Thirdly, and this is a very important argument, butter is the most important part of any normal Russian snack - black bread with butter and herring, white bread with butter and caviar, Borodino bread with butter and salmon. Nobody will refuse such a snack, nobody.

The best oil is one that has a shelf life of 3-4 months. By the way, unlike Russian-made butter, most of the butter from Europe is stored for six months, or even a year - and this is alarming.

4. Sour cream

Sour cream is actually the main Russian sauce, either by itself, or salted or sweetened. The last to pancakes, pancakes and cheesecakes will be the very thing.

5. Curd

If there is a desire to make spring rolls, the cottage cheese will be very relevant ( we do not mention meat because those who observe Great Lent refuse meat already in Shrovetide week). Also, on Shrovetide are very good.

6. Eggs

Chicken eggs are also useful for dough, and, possibly, for filling pies - if you decide to cook them with rice or bake them.

7. Vegetable oil

Yarn is a primordially Russian way of frying: cooking in a thick layer of overheated oil, at least one centimeter thick (or even 1.5-2 cm). This is what we mean by the fact that on Shrovetide you can deep-fried brushwood, crumpets and all sorts of other yarn pies. But pancakes can be fried in butter or lard - as you like.

8. Caviar

We cannot afford black caviar, we do not seriously consider imitated black caviar, but this is not a reason to limit ourselves to salmon caviar. You can experiment with white caviar - especially since it is now well represented in stores at a fairly tolerable price.

By the way, before the revolution, pancakes with caviar were most often understood as pancakes with white caviar of pike perch, whitefish, carp, carp, and pike caviar was especially appreciated. In traditional cuisine, it is customary to season it - either finely chopped onions and vegetable oil ( further optional - vinegar and lemon juice, as well as pepper), or sour cream.

9. Fish

Whatever one may say, Maslenitsa is a reason to pickle salmon or trout. How to salt it -. Salted fish with pancakes will be good, and for bread and butter. Fish pies will also come in handy for Shrovetide.

10. Honey

It is worth picking up liquid, flowing honey for pancakes. In general, honey begins to crystallize ( beekeepers say sit down) 2-3 months after collection. Some varieties, such as acacia and chestnut, are much later because they contain more fructose. Acacia honey has the most classic taste, delicate, not cloying ( that is why it is most often used in confectionery), chestnut - tart, with bitterness, not for everybody.

11. Berries and fruits

It will be good for pancakes - it can be blueberries, strawberries, currants, lingonberries and so on. Since it's February outside, it is not at all necessary to buy expensive fresh berries, you can get by with frozen ones - there, more than that, you still have to put the berries in a saucepan, add sugar and butter ( or water) and prepare the berry sauce. Alternatively - fruits: apples, apricots, peaches.

12. Mushrooms

Dried or frozen wild mushrooms, as well as fresh champignons will be good as a filling for pancakes and. Cook mushrooms well with onions and sour cream. Note that oyster mushrooms as a filling for pancakes are worse than champignons - they are too hard.

13. Cabbage

You will need cabbage if you decide on kulebyaka or. By the way, have you tried mixing fresh and for the filling? Very good at it!

14. Liqueurs and mead

Sweet Russian alcohol will be good as an accompaniment to sweet pancakes, but ordinary vodka goes well with them. But for pancakes with fish, all kinds of pies and savory pies cooked in deep fat, vodka is very good.

15. Tea

A safe option for sweet pancakes with honey, sour cream and berry fillings is hot black tea. Not some exotic, but the most familiar, Indian ( as before it was "with an elephant", if you remember) - and brewed by all the rules... Have a wide Shrovetide!