 Traditional cheese blintzes topped with blackberry compote | |
| Alternative names | Blintzes |
|---|---|
| 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.
History
Traditional blintzes are filled with sweetened cheese, sometimes with the addition of raisins, or fruit preserves and then slightly sautéed. They are served on Shavuot. The word blintz in English comes from the Yiddish word בלינצע or blintse, coming from a Slavic word блинец meaning blin, or pancake.
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.
For Passover, matzo meal is used instead of flour.
See also
References
- ^ "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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