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Behind the Aegis

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Wed May 24, 2023, 03:40 PM May 2023

(Jewish Group) Cheese blintzes were never meant to be sweet. It's all about the savory.

I realized I was not truly “American” when I made the mistake of ordering cheese blintzes in a (good) New York kosher restaurant. I quickly discovered that Americans think cheese blintzes are a dessert, intended to be loaded with sugar.

For someone with a Russian set of taste buds, this was pure sacrilege.

Growing up with a Kiev-born grandmother who would lovingly make batches of cheese blintzes every weekend, I knew the dish as a breakfast sort of food, or an afternoon snack to be served with tea — small pockets of crepes filled with slightly tart farmer cheese, with a dollop of sour cream. Something savory and creamy, no syrupy taste in sight.

This Shavuot, consider cutting down the sugar and making the blintzes the way they were made in the Old Country. Luckily, Yiddish Forverts editor Rukhl Schaechter and Yiddish cooking chef Eve Jochnowitz show us how to make the real deal, authentic Old World cheese blintzes, just in time for the holiday. They top the blintzes with all-natural homemade apple sauce.

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(Jewish Group) Cheese blintzes were never meant to be sweet. It's all about the savory. (Original Post) Behind the Aegis May 2023 OP
I haven't had a good blintz in years. 😕 Mosby May 2023 #1
Thank you. I enjoyed watching them. KewlKat May 2023 #2

Mosby

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1. I haven't had a good blintz in years. 😕
Wed May 24, 2023, 04:48 PM
May 2023

My cousin has my bubbies recipes, might try to make them.

We also make a non sweet luchion kugel, delish.

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