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Traditional Jewish pancake
![]() Traditional cheese blintzes topped with blackberry compote | |
Alternative names | Blintzes |
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Type | Jewish cuisine |
Place of origin | Eastern Europe |
Created by | Ashkenazi Jewish community |
Serving temperature | Hot, traditionally with sour cream or fruit compote |
Main ingredients | Dough; filling: farmer's cheese or other similar soft cheese, or fruit preserves. |
A cheese blintzes or blintz (Hebrew: חֲבִיתִית; Yiddish: בלינצע) is a rolled filled pancake in Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine, in essence a wrap based on a crepe or Russian blini.[1]
History
[edit]Traditional blintzes are filled with sweetened cheese, sometimes with the addition of raisins, or fruit preserves and then slightly sautéed.[1] They are served on Shavuot.[2] The word blintz in English comes from the Yiddish word בלינצע or blintse, coming from a Slavic word блинец [blin-yets] meaning blin, or pancake.[3]
Like the knishes, blintzes represent foods that are now considered typically Jewish, and exemplify the changes in foods that Jews adopted from their Christian neighbors.[4]
For Passover, matzo meal is used instead of flour.[citation needed]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "blintze | a thin, usually wheat-flour pancake folded to form a casing (as for cheese or fruit) and then sautéed or baked". Merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
- ^ "Cheese Blintzes for Shavuot". Mother would know. 30 April 2018. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
- ^ "Blintz definition". Merriam Webster dictionary. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
- ^ Lowenstein, Steven M. (2000). The Jewish cultural tapestry : international Jewish folk traditions. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-515800-8. OCLC 80242007.
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