Article: Blintz yourself with blintzes for breakfast, dessert

Yiddish cousins of French crepes and Russian blini, blintzes are delicate pancake packets with a sweetened and spiced cream cheese filling. They're a standard, served with applesauce or preserves, at delicatessens and bed and breakfast inns. A chafing dish filled with blintzes makes a luxurious dessert with an assortment of elegant toppings: a pitcher of warm fudge or raspberry sauce and bowls of fresh berries and thick sour cream.

Preparing blintzes takes time but is no more challenging than making crepes. Both are made from a thin, rich batter with a higher proportion of eggs and milk to flour than for hotcakes. Unlike crepes, blintzes are cooked on only one side, then filled and ...

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