This tradition is observed by Western Christians as Pancake Day. The tradition of a dairy festival at that time of year was adopted by the Orthodox church as a way of using up dairy products before the start of Great Lent. They were traditionally prepared at the end of winter to honor the rebirth of the new sun (Butter Week, or Maslenitsa, also called "pancake week"). īlini were considered by early East Slavic people in pre-Christian times to be a symbol of the sun, due to their round form. They are thin pancakes usually made of wheat flour (not buckwheat), folded to form a casing (as for cheese or fruit) and then sautéed or baked. Some cookbooks and restaurants use blin and blintchick as in Russian to refer to crêpes.īlintzes are an offshoot (an evolved or variant form) of blini. Some English dictionaries record usage of the forms blin as singular and blini or bliny as plural, which correspond to the originally Russian forms, but other dictionaries consider this usage so rare in English that they do not mention blin at all and only record the widespread modern regular usage of blini for the singular and blinis for the plural. In modern Russian, the term most often refers to pan-sized leavened thin pancakes, although smaller leavened pancakes are also called blini and were much more common historically. In the West, the term blini traditionally refers to small (2-4 inches in diameter) savory pancakes made with leavened batter. Blini are among the most popular and most-eaten dishes in Russia. A blini (sometimes spelled bliny) ( Russian: блины pl., diminutive: блинчики, blinchiki pl., diminutive: млинчики, mlynchiki) or, sometimes, blin (more accurate as a single form of the noun), is a Russian pancake traditionally made from wheat or (more rarely) buckwheat flour and served with smetana, tvorog, butter, caviar and other garnishes.
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