Interesting pancake recipes for Maslenitsa. Maslenitsa: history, traditions and recipes. Butter yeast dough on sourdough

Maslenitsa is an ancient traditional holiday of the Slavs, which has come to us since pre-Christian times. Previously, however, it was celebrated much later, since it was with this holiday that people celebrated spring. But now Maslenitsa begins a week before the start of Lent, and, in fact, continues this week. So, in 2019, the holiday begins on March 4 and will last until March 10 inclusive.

Since ancient times, the custom of cooking pancakes, which symbolize the sun, has been preserved at this time. According to Christian canons, on Maslenitsa it is still allowed to eat dairy products and fish, but you can no longer eat meat.

Traditionally, they also prepared various flour products, fried, boiled, salted or smoked fish and put fish aspic on the table. Our editors have collected recipes that can be prepared this holiday, except for pancakes.

What to cook for Maslenitsa

Honey gingerbread

Maslenitsa Wednesday was called "Gourmand". Mothers-in-law especially prepared for this day, since then their sons-in-law came to them for pancakes. But besides them, their mothers-in-law often treated them to honey gingerbread.

Ingredients:

flour - 4 1/4 cups
sugar – 1 glass
butter – 140 grams
honey – 3 1/2 tbsp. spoons
water – 1/2 cup
soda – 1 teaspoon
baking powder – 1 teaspoon
salt – 1 teaspoon
cinnamon – 1 1/2 teaspoons
ground ginger – 1/2 teaspoon
cloves – 1/2 teaspoon
egg white – 1 piece
powdered sugar – 1 1/2 cups
lemon juice – 1 tbsp. spoon

Recipe:

Mix sugar, honey and water in a saucepan. Place over medium heat and wait until the sugar dissolves, stirring occasionally. Then add oil and spices - cinnamon, ginger, cloves. Remove from heat when butter has melted, then whisk together flour, baking soda and baking powder in a large bowl. Next, pour a warm mixture of spices, sugar and butter into the flour. Stir and knead the dough, from which you then form a ball, wrap it with cling film and put it in the refrigerator overnight. The next day, you can make gingerbread cookies from the finished dough. Remove the dough from the refrigerator and preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Roll out the dough after it has reached room temperature and cut out the gingerbread cookies using a special mold or knife. The cut-out gingerbread cookies can be placed in the oven after covering a baking sheet with parchment paper. They bake quite quickly - 5-6 minutes is enough for you!

Beat egg whites, powdered sugar and lemon juice until smooth. Place the mixture in a bag and cut off the tip at the end. Paint the gingerbread cookies with glaze and wait until it hardens.

Honey gingerbread

Sbiten

This is an ancient East Slavic drink made from water, honey and spices, which often included medicinal herbal mixtures. It can be both alcoholic and non-alcoholic, and has completely different variations - spicy, intoxicating, winter, molasses and the like. Let's talk about one of them - winter sbitna.

Ingredients:

water – 4 glasses
sugar – 0.5 cups
honey – 5 tbsp. spoons
cloves – 1 pc.
cinnamon – 1 pc.
bay leaf – 1 pc.
cardamom – 2–3 pcs.

Recipe:

Pour 4 cups of water into a saucepan, put on fire and bring to a boil. Then add half a glass of sugar, 5 tablespoons of honey and various spices (cloves, cinnamon, bay leaf, cardamom) to boiling water. Boil for 10-15 minutes. Strain. Serve hot in a jug.

Sbiten

Dough figures

You can also pamper yourself with seven different figures made from butter dough: larks, doves and swallows. It was customary to prepare such products especially on Thursday - “Razgulay”, as it was called.

Ingredients:

flour – 3 tbsp. l. for dough and 3 cups for dough
milk – 250 ml
dry yeast – 30 g
powdered sugar – 1 tbsp. for dough and 100 g for baking
chicken eggs – 2 pcs.
sunflower oil – 1 tbsp.
salt - a pinch
butter – 120 g

Recipe:

First, prepare the dough: add powdered sugar, yeast, flour to warm milk (35-40°C) and stir until all products are completely dissolved. Leave the dough for half an hour. After this time, you will get a lush “cap”, which will later fall off, and bubbles will appear on the surface - the dough is ripe.

In a separate bowl, mix the baking: soft butter, eggs, sugar. Combine and mix: dough, baking and flour until the dough becomes elastic and smooth. Form the rich yeast dough into a lump, place it in a pan, cover with a clean towel and leave for 1-2 hours until the dough rises. Then knead the dough and form figures from it and place on a baking sheet greased with oil. Bake the pastry for 40 minutes at 180 degrees. After 20 minutes, brush the product with beaten egg yolk.

Dough figures can be decorated with icing

Jerk off or Drachenka

This dish is prepared from flour, eggs and milk. In some cases, jerking off is very similar to an omelette, in others it is more rigid - like baked cakes. The masturbation also had a ritual meaning: on the days of the funeral they went to the cemetery with it.

Ingredients:

flour – 1.5 cl.
yolks – 10 pcs.
squirrels – 5 pcs.
heavy cream – 1 cl.
butter – 1 tbsp.
salt – 1 tsp.
powdered sugar – 3 tbsp.

Recipe:

Grind the yolks with powdered sugar until white, gradually pour the cream into the mixture and stir until a homogeneous mass is formed. Gradually add flour and knead the dough. Add salt and beat well. Separately, beat the whites with a pinch of salt until stiff foam. Gently add to the dough, stirring from top to bottom.

Pour into a greased mold or deep frying pan and place in a hot oven for 15-20 minutes.

Jerk off

Kurnik

According to custom, on Saturday there are “sister-in-law’s get-togethers,” or rather, on Saturday evening the table was laden with flour dishes: dumplings with cherries, kurniks and a variety of pies. By the way, the ritual of burning the effigy took place at the same time. People believed that fire had magical powers and cleansed a person of all bad things. Kurnik is also called the royal pie, the king of pies and the festive one. Although in Christianity it is not customary to eat meat during this period, but if you do not follow these rules, you can try cooking it.

Ingredients:

butter (preferably homemade) – 100 g
sour cream – 110 g
soda – 0.5 tsp.
salt - a pinch
flour – 2 cups
meat – 500 g
potatoes – 2 pcs.
onion – 1 pc.
eggs – 1 pc.

Recipe:

Melt the butter and cool. Add sour cream, salt, soda and beat in the egg. Mix everything. Knead a light dough. To do this, sift the flour and add the sour cream and butter mixture. Cover the dough with cling film and leave for an hour. Meanwhile, prepare the filling. Chop the meat, potatoes and onions very finely with a sharp knife, add salt and pepper. Stir.

Divide the dough into two parts in the following proportions: 2/3 and 1/3. Roll out most of it to a thickness of 5 mm and place on a baking sheet lined with parchment. Stepping back 5 cm from the edges, distribute the filling evenly. Roll out the second part of the dough and place it on top. Seal the edges and use a knife to make cuts in the center to allow steam to escape. Brush the chicken with beaten egg and place in the oven for 40 minutes at 180 degrees.

Chicken pie

Red fish pie

This is an incredibly tasty dish. It can be served either cold or hot. According to the proposed recipe, frozen puff pastry is quite suitable for making fish pie, so it can be prepared quite easily and quickly.

Ingredients:

lightly salted salmon or trout – 300 – 400 m
yeast puff pastry
eggs – 4 pcs.
green onions – 1 bunch
rice – 1 cup

Recipe:

First, cook the rice in advance so that it has time to cool. Line a pie pan with baking paper and grate with butter. Then roll out two sheets of dough. Place one sheet on the bottom of the mold. Peel and bone the fish and cut into small pieces. After this, boil the eggs hard and chop the onion.

Now layer the pie filling on the base: a layer of rice, then onions and eggs. The last one is the fish layer. Cover the top with the other half of the dough. Pinch the pie dough around the edges, spread the top of the pie with butter and sprinkle with sugar. To allow steam to escape, make several holes with a knife. You can place the pie in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 40 minutes.

Fish pie

Kaymak

Kaymak is rarely found on store shelves. This is a dairy product. The tender, sweet or salty mass is a cross between cottage cheese, sour cream and butter.

Ingredients:

cream – 3 tbsp.
sugar – 1 tbsp.
vanilla sugar (natural) – ¼ sachet
lemon – 1 pc.

Recipe:

Combine two glasses of cream with sugar and vanilla sugar and cook over low heat until tender (a drop dropped into cold water should thicken to the consistency of sour cream). When cooking kaymak, make sure that it does not burn.

Cool the finished kaymak quickly (place the vessel in cold water), then beat with a spatula, adding lemon juice drop by drop. When the kaymak becomes thick and white, carefully add cream to it. Mix the mixture well and put it in the refrigerator. Kaymak can be served separately or added as a layer for waffles or cake.

Kaymak

Varenets

This is a fermented milk drink, prepared from baked cow's milk (ryazhenka), using sour cream as a starter.

Ingredients:

milk – 1 l
cream – 250 ml
sour cream – ½ tbsp.
yolk – 1 pc.
sugar – 1 tbsp.

Recipe:

Mix milk and cream in a saucepan and place in the oven. As soon as peaks appear on the surface, lower them to the bottom with a spoon and shake. Place one peak on a plate. Continue baking the milk until it has reduced by one third. Remove the baked milk from the oven and cool to 40°C.

Add sour cream mixed with yolk and sugar, whisk, pour into cups and place a piece of foam on top. Place in a warm place (30-40°C) until the Varenets turns sour. Then put it in the refrigerator. Serve Varenets with sugar, cinnamon and crackers.

Cheesecakes "Kievskie"

Maslenitsa is also sometimes called Cheese Week. On this holiday, various dishes were prepared from cottage cheese, in particular cheesecakes.

Ingredients:

homemade cheese – 500 g,
flour - ¾ tbsp.
eggs – 3 pcs.
sugar – 3-4 tbsp.
jam – 2-3 tbsp.
raisins – 2 tbsp.
white crackers – 50 g
butter – 100 g
powdered sugar – 1 tbsp.
sour cream 20% fat – ½ glass.
salt to taste

Recipe:

Rub the cottage cheese through a sieve, mix with sugar, two eggs, salt and flour and stir until smooth. Sort the raisins, rinse and dry. Boil raisins with jam until thick and cool. Divide the curd mass into pieces, roll it into round flat cakes 5-7 mm thick, add the cooked jam and make oval-shaped cheesecakes. Soak each cheesecake in a scrambled egg, bread it in breadcrumbs and fry in plenty of oil. When serving, sprinkle with powdered sugar. Serve sour cream separately.

Syrniki

Bon appetit!

Maslenitsa is an ancient Slavic holiday, the roots of which go so far into the past that no one knows exactly when it appeared. Many researchers believe that in ancient times Maslenitsa was celebrated later - it symbolized the end of winter and the beginning of the fertile season. Actually, this is what the festivities were timed to coincide with. But over time, the Orthodox Church streamlined this issue in its own way, and the dates for celebrating Maslenitsa began to depend on the date for celebrating Easter. Today, Maslenitsa is celebrated in the last week before the start of Lent, and the end of this fast is precisely the holiday of the spring equinox - Easter.

Maslenitsa is celebrated for a week, and each day has its own special scenario - meeting, flirting, delicacy, revelry, mother-in-law's parties, sister-in-law's get-togethers, farewell. The first three days are called Narrow Maslenitsa, the rest - Broad. The culmination of the celebration, as we know, is the burning of an effigy of winter, which symbolizes its imminent end. It often happens that it symbolizes prematurely.

In general, various winter activities are held on Maslenitsa - sliding downhill, storming a snow fortress, sled riding, wrestling in the snow. But once upon a time, matchmaking and memorials for the deceased were also scheduled on these days. Everything had to be done before the start of Lent. By the way, despite all the revelry, Maslenitsa is also called Cheese Week. And by cheese here we mean cottage cheese and dairy products. The fact is that you can no longer eat meat on Maslenitsa - preparations are underway for fasting. Only fish, pastries and dairy products can be on the table. The last day when you can eat meat is the so-called Meat Sunday, that is, the last Sunday before Maslenitsa.

But let's finish with the theoretical part and get to the point. As we already understood, people do not eat meat on Maslenitsa. The main symbol of this holiday is, of course, pancakes, of which there are countless numbers - wheat, buckwheat, semolina, yeast, sourdough, custard, with seasoning, and so on and so forth. But everyone already knows about pancakes, and we’ll try to figure out what else is customary to cook for Maslenitsa, besides pancakes.

Here you need to understand that the holiday lasts a week, and it’s difficult to eat pancakes for a week. Therefore, on these days they traditionally prepared lean cabbage soup with sauerkraut and finished off the various prepared preparations. This is such an everyday food. Also, various fish dishes such as jellied or baked fish are perfect for this holiday. Dumplings with potatoes or cottage cheese and potato pancakes would be appropriate on the table. Well, and, of course, various pastries - without them there would be no holiday.

Syrniki

This quick cottage cheese dish is included in the national cuisine of many Slavic peoples, and Cheese Week is the perfect time for it.

cottage cheese - 500 g;
flour - 2 tbsp. l.;
eggs - 2-3 pcs.;
sugar - 3-4 tbsp. l.;
jam - 2-3 tbsp. l.
raisins - 2 tbsp. l.;
white crackers - 50 g;
butter - 100 g;
powdered sugar/vanilla sugar - 1 tbsp. l.;
salt - to taste.

Rub the cottage cheese through a sieve, mix with sugar, 2 eggs, salt and flour and mix until smooth. Sort the raisins, rinse and dry. Boil raisins with jam until thickened and cool. Divide the curd mass into pieces, roll it into round flat cakes 5-7 mm thick, put boiled jam inside and make oval-shaped cheesecakes. Soak each cheesecake in a scrambled egg, bread it in breadcrumbs and fry in plenty of oil. When serving, sprinkle with powdered sugar. Serve sour cream separately.

Varenets

This ancient fermented milk drink was once a very frequent guest on the holiday table. Now it is a little forgotten, but there is a good reason to remember it.

milk - 1 l;
cream - 250 ml;
sour cream - half a glass;
yolk - 1 pc.;
sugar - 1 tbsp. l.

Mix milk and cream in a saucepan and place in the oven. As soon as foam appears on the surface, lower it to the bottom with a spoon and shake. Place one foam on a plate. Continue boiling the milk until it is reduced by one third. Remove the boiled milk from the oven and cool to 40°C.

Sbiten

Another winter drink that will warm you up in the cold and give you many pleasant moments.

sugar - 150 g;
honey - 200 g;
cloves - 5 buds;
cinnamon - 2 g;
ground ginger - 2 tsp;
black pepper - 10 peas;
karmadon - 6-8 capsules;
star anise - 3 stars;
boiling water - 5-6 l.

Dissolve sugar and honey in boiling water (you can add it later, to a liquid cooled to 40 degrees - so it will not lose its beneficial qualities) and cook for 15 minutes; add all the spices and cook for another 10 minutes; then pour it hot and drink it like tea.

Cheesecake "Tsarskaya"

Well, where would Maslenitsa be without baking? Cheesecake is another version of a dough product symbolizing the sun. It's easy to do and brings a lot of joy.

low-fat cottage cheese - 500 g;
eggs - 5 pcs.;
sugar - 5-7 tbsp.
butter - 200 g;
flour - 1.5 cups;
salt - to taste.

Grind the egg yolks with sugar until white, beat the whites with a pinch of salt until stiff peaks form. Rub the cottage cheese through a sieve for a finer structure. Combine the yolks with cottage cheese, mix, add the whites and beat with a mixer until fluffy. Grate the frozen butter on a coarse grater, mix with flour and grind until it becomes coarse.

Pour half of the flour mixture into the bottom of the mold, add the cottage cheese and cover with the remaining crumbs. Place in an oven preheated to 180°C and bake until done.

Drachena

Here is another interesting dish, similar to an omelette. Among other things, drachena once had a ritual meaning - on the days of funerals they went to the cemetery with it.

eggs - 4-5 pcs.;
sugar - 2 tbsp. l.;
cream - 1 glass;
flour - 1 glass;
butter - 1-1.5 tbsp. l.;
powdered sugar - 1 tbsp. l.

Beat eggs with sugar until foamy, add cream, add flour, mix quickly and pour into melted butter in a deep frying pan, bake in a heated oven until the drachena browns and rises well. Serve hot, sprinkled with powdered sugar.

Honey gingerbread

Maslenitsa Wednesday was called "gourmand". Mothers-in-law especially prepared for this day, since then their sons-in-law came to them for pancakes. But in addition, their mothers-in-law often treated them to honey gingerbread.

flour - 4 1/4 cups;
sugar - 1 glass;
butter - 140 grams;
honey - 3 1/2 tbsp. l.;
water - 1/2 cup;
soda - 1 tsp;
baking powder - 1 tsp;
salt - 1 tsp;
cinnamon - 1 1/2 tsp;
ground ginger - 1/2 tsp;
cloves - 1/2 tsp;
egg white - 1 pc.;
powdered sugar - 1 1/2 cups;
lemon juice - 1 tbsp. l.

Mix sugar, honey and water in a saucepan. Place over medium heat and wait until the sugar dissolves, stirring occasionally. Add oil and spices - cinnamon, ginger, cloves. Remove from heat when the butter has melted, and then mix the flour, baking soda and baking powder in a large bowl. Pour a warm mixture of spices, sugar and butter into the flour. Stir and knead the dough, from which you then form a ball, wrap it with cling film and put it in the refrigerator overnight.
The next day, you can make gingerbread cookies from the finished dough. Remove the dough from the refrigerator and preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Roll out the dough after it has reached room temperature and cut out the gingerbread cookies using a special mold or knife. The cut-out gingerbread cookies can be placed in the oven after covering a baking sheet with parchment paper. They bake quite quickly - 5-6 minutes.

Beat egg whites, powdered sugar and lemon juice until smooth. Place the mixture in a bag and cut off the tip at the end. Paint the gingerbread cookies with glaze and wait until it hardens. Serve with tea.

Maslenitsa means, of course, pancakes. However, everything is not limited to them only! In this article we will tell you all how to celebrate your favorite Russian holiday, incl. and what to cook for Maslenitsa to make it festive, tasty and fun!

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For some, Maslenitsa is associated with mass cheerful festivities, some see it as preparation before Lent, others remember the famous cartoon by Robert Sahakyan: “Look, you, Maslenitsa.” All these versions will be true and correct, because Maslenitsa is a multifaceted holiday that contains a large number of symbols and meanings. But still, what is Maslenitsa, and how is it celebrated?

How is it traditionally celebrated and what is prepared for Maslenitsa?

Maslenitsa is an ancient Slavic holiday, which, according to history, has always been the longest of the year. The origin of Maslenitsa goes back a long way, and is made up of scraps of chronicles and letters. From them it is clear that the holiday originated from pagan culture, which survived after the adoption of Christianity, and became the threshold of Lent before Easter.

What date is Maslenitsa celebrated? It is celebrated differently every year! For example, in 2016 it is celebrated from March 7 to 13. And in 2015 it was celebrated from February 16 to 22.

After the adoption of Christianity, the last week before the upcoming Lent in the Orthodox church calendar began to be called “Cheese Week.” The meaning of Cheese Week is forgiveness of grievances, reconciliation of neighbors, and preparation before Lent. This time should be spent having fun, because... There are 7 weeks of strict restrictions ahead. Each day of a given week has certain interesting customs and features.

According to Christian canons, on Maslenitsa it is still allowed to consume dairy products (milk, kefir, cheese, cottage cheese and eggs), fish dishes are allowed, but meat is no longer allowed. An indispensable attribute of Maslenitsa - pancakes, which had ritual significance - were a symbol of the sun. They were usually baked from buckwheat, rye or wheat flour. Various seasonings and sauces were served with them.

The presence of a lot of fatty food and strong drinks at ceremonial feasts was typical. In addition to pancakes, a variety of flour products were traditionally prepared: pancakes, yarn, flat cakes, potato pancakes, brushwood and all kinds of pies. Maslenitsa feasts were also distinguished by a large abundance of fish dishes: fried and stewed crucian carp and carp, salted and smoked herring and jellied fish. But the main signature dish of this holiday is still pancakes, which we are used to preparing according to our favorite recipe. Well, Maslenitsa is a great opportunity to experiment and learn new amazing pancake recipes, because they can be not only sweet, but also vegetable, meat and fish.

Pancake flour: variety of types

Usually we are used to baking pancakes from wheat flour. However, there are other types: rye, oat, rice, buckwheat, pea and corn flour.

Wheat flour is obtained by grinding food grains and is the main raw material of the confectionery, baking and pasta industries.
Rye flour does not form gluten, but it contains more active enzymes that break down starch. Some properties predominate in it, much more than in wheat flour, for example, iron by 30%, and magnesium and potassium by 1.5–2 times.
Buckwheat flour is good for allergy sufferers, but is not suitable for pancakes due to the lack of stickiness. Therefore, buckwheat pancakes are baked only in the company of wheat flour, otherwise they will simply fall apart.
Pancakes made from rice flour are a very capricious product; they do not turn out thin and transparent and will also fall apart. Therefore, it is preferable to buy them ready-made.
Corn flour can only be combined with wheat flour, and only if it is very finely ground.
Oatmeal is great for pancakes, especially when combined with oat bran. Then the pancakes turn out to be dietary and have a beautiful small brown dot.
Pea flour makes thin and crispy Indian style pancakes. It can glue anything together, so you don’t even need to add eggs to the dough.

Weekly Maslenitsa menu

We will not deviate from the habits of our ancestors, and we will tell you how they traditionally walked and what they prepared for Maslenitsa.

Monday - “meeting”

The first day of Maslenitsa begins on Monday. From old clothes, straw and other improvised materials, they made a stuffed animal of a fat and large woman, impaled it on a stake and installed it in the main square. Women, putting aside household chores, went to the tavern to drink a glass, have fun, and talk about life. If men wanted to join them, then “pads” (small planks tied with a long ribbon) were placed around their necks. They could only be removed by exposing the Magarych to the young ladies.

Also on Monday, all families began to bake pancakes, and the first baked pancake was given to a beggar, poor and needy person, so that he could remember the souls of deceased relatives and loved ones. All people invited friends and relatives to visit to taste pancakes. But the father-in-law and mother-in-law sent their daughter-in-law to her mother and father in the morning so that in the evening they could come and visit the matchmakers. We suggest opening the Shrovetide week with pancakes made with yeast and milk.

Pancakes with milk: recipe

Ingredients:

Wheat flour - 220 g
Milk - 2 cups (400 ml)
Powdered sugar - 2 tbsp.
Eggs - 1 pc.
Salt - a pinch
Vegetable or melted butter - 2.5 tbsp.

Making pancakes with milk:

Mix warm milk with powdered sugar and salt.
Beat the eggs with a whisk.
Sift the wheat flour into another container and pour in the beaten eggs. Mix well.
Add milk and knead into a homogeneous dough.
Pour in the oil and stir.
Heat the frying pan well, grease it with vegetable oil and pour a portion of dough onto it (one ladle), which is distributed in a thin layer throughout the frying pan in a circular motion.
Bake the pancakes on both sides until sunny.

Yeast pancakes: recipe

Ingredients:

Flour - 300 g
Dry instant yeast - 11 g
Milk - 300 ml
Sugar - 60 g
Salt - a pinch
Water - 200 ml
Eggs - 2-3 pcs.
Sunflower or olive oil - 100 ml

Preparation:

Combine eggs, sugar, salt and beat everything thoroughly.
Add the remaining ingredients (sunflower oil, milk, yeast, flour, water) and mix until smooth.
Place the dough in a place without drafts for one hour.
When the dough has doubled in volume, stir it to release the air. Leave the dough to rise again. (!) Don't interfere.
Heat the frying pan and use a pastry brush to lightly coat the bottom with oil.
Use a ladle to scoop the dough and pour it into the pan, allowing it to spread evenly. After the surface of the pancake has dried, turn the pancake over and bake until golden brown.

Tuesday - “flirts”

In common parlance, Tuesday was called “flirt”, i.e. The boys flirted with the beauties, inviting them to ride on a sleigh or go down the ice slides to the cheerful ringing of bells. Watching such skating, people judged the fate of the person that was in store for him. For example, if you slide down a hill successfully, next year will be prosperous. Traveled the farthest - there will be a long life.

Many Maslenitsa rituals boil down to matchmaking, so on Tuesday there were also bride viewings in order to celebrate the wedding after Lent. The bride's parents made dumplings with cottage cheese and pies and waited for their future son-in-law to visit, while the married women again had fun in the tavern. Theatrical performances and fun activities began on the streets of the city. Noise, commotion and laughter could be heard from everywhere.

Also on the second day of Maslenitsa, national Russian dishes were prepared - royal pancakes: with black and red caviar - for real men, and with red fish - for intellectuals. We offer you to prepare these delicious dishes.

Pancakes with salmon

Ingredients (pancakes):

Flour - 320 g
Chicken eggs - 4 pcs.
Milk - 500 ml
Salt - a pinch

Ingredients (filling):

Sour cream - 300 ml
Smoked salmon - 200 g
Fresh dill - bunch

Making pancakes with salmon:

Thoroughly whisk flour, salt, half a serving of milk with a blender, breaking up all lumps.
Add eggs and remaining milk. Beat again and leave the dough for 15 minutes.
In a hot frying pan, bake the pancakes on both sides until golden brown.
Cut the salmon into 1 cm cubes and mix with chopped dill and sour cream.
Apply the filling to the pancake, wrap it in a roll, cut into pieces to serve on the table.

Pancakes with red (black) caviar

Ingredients:

Flour - 250 g
Chicken eggs - 3 pcs.
Baked milk - 400 ml
Sugar - 50 g
Vegetable oil - 60 ml
Butter - 65 g
Salt - a pinch
Red or black caviar - 200 g

Preparation:

In a bowl, mix eggs, salt, sugar and half the milk.
Add flour, pour in the rest of the milk, vegetable oil, and knead the dough well again.
Heat a frying pan and fry the pancakes on both sides until golden brown.
Place the finished pancakes in a stack, brushing them with soft butter.
Place 1 tbsp on the pancake. caviar and distribute it evenly. Roll the pancakes into a roll and place them in a stack on a plate.

Wednesday - "gourmet"

Wednesday of Shrovetide Week was called “Gourmand”. Each family on this day set a rich table and ate as many pancakes as their heart desired. Especially on this day, mothers-in-law prepared, since on Wednesday their sons-in-law came to them for pancakes. But she treated her son-in-law not only with pancakes, but also with sbiten and honey gingerbread.

Honey sbiten: step-by-step recipe

Sbiten is an ancient Russian drink that is especially popular during Maslenitsa and honey saved. Sbiten is consumed cold or hot. It is prepared from honey and spices, and also, if desired, added brewed tea, red wine or vodka.

Ingredients:

- 150 g
A mixture of ground spices (cloves, coriander, cinnamon, ginger) - 1 tsp.
Water - 1.5 l
Sugar - 1.5 tbsp.
Lemon - half

Preparing honey sbiten:

Heat water and add honey, spices and sugar.
Boil the ingredients and cook at low temperature for 5–10 minutes.
Then add the lemon cut into pieces and turn off the heat. Cover the pan with a lid and steep the drink for 20–30 minutes.
Then, if desired, you can add alcoholic drinks or freshly brewed tea to the sbiten to taste.

Honey gingerbread: step by step recipe

Fragrant, beautiful and tasty honey gingerbreads from ancient Russian cuisine will create a pleasant festive mood for everyone.

Ingredients:

Honey - 300 g
Flour - 600 g
Eggs - 3 yolks and 1 whole
Vanilla - 1 tsp.
Drinking water - 1 glass
Lemon zest and lemon juice - 0.5 lemon
Ground spices (nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon, anise) - 1.5 tsp.
Sugar - ? glasses

Preparing honey gingerbread for Maslenitsa:

Place honey in an enamel bowl and fill with hot water. Stir until dissolved and cool.
In another container, grind 3 yolks and one whole egg with sugar. Add ground spices, vanillin, soda, lemon zest and juice. Beat the products with a mixer until stable foam.
Pour dissolved honey into the beaten eggs and gradually add flour.
Place the resulting mass on a floured countertop, knead into a loose dough, which is left for 5–6 hours.
Then knead the dough again, cut it into pieces and roll out. Cut out shapes or figures, which place on a baking sheet dusted with flour.
Bake gingerbread cookies in the oven for 40 minutes at 180 degrees. While they are hot, brush them with egg, and when they have cooled down, beat the egg white with sugar and draw patterns on them.

Thursday - “wide Thursday” - “revelry, turning point”

On Thursday, all housework was stopped, sewing and spinning were especially forbidden, and a wide celebration began. People walked, had fun, fought fist fights, rode horses, organized competitions, which were accompanied by eating all kinds of dishes and eating pancakes. Even on Thursday evening, the son-in-law should go to his mother-in-law, bow from the waist and invite her to his home for a pancake dinner the next day. On Thursday, a wild day, it is customary to bake figures from butter dough that are harbingers of spring: larks, doves and swallows.

Butter yeast dough on sourdough

Ingredients:

Flour - 3 tbsp. l. for dough and 3 cups for dough
Milk - 250 ml
Dry yeast - 30 g
Powdered sugar - 1 tbsp. for dough and 100 g for baking
Chicken eggs - 2 pcs.
Vegetable oil - 1 tbsp.
Salt - a pinch
Butter - 120 g

Preparation:

Prepare the dough. Place 1 tbsp in warm milk (35–40 °C). powdered sugar, yeast, 3 tbsp. flour and stir until all products are dissolved. Leave the dough for half an hour. After this time, you will get a lush “cap”, which will later fall off, and bubbles will appear on the surface - the dough is ripe.
In a separate bowl, mix the baking: soft butter, eggs, sugar.
Combine and mix: dough, baking and flour until the dough becomes elastic and smooth.
Form the rich yeast dough into a ball, place it in a pan, cover with a clean towel and leave in the kitchen cabinet for 1-2 hours. After this time the dough will rise well.
Punch down the dough and form figures from it, which are placed on a baking sheet coated with oil. Bake the pastry in the oven for 40 minutes at 180 degrees. After 20 minutes, brush the product with beaten egg yolk.

Friday - "mother-in-law's evening" - "guest day"

On Friday, the mother-in-law paid a return visit to her son-in-law for pancakes baked by her daughter. After which, in the evening, the son-in-law must take his mother-in-law for a ride through the streets of the village or city. Moreover, the quality of skating depends on the mother-in-law’s character. The angry and grumpy one is taken over bumps and uneven roads, and the kind and soft one is driven along a smooth plain. On this day you can bake a variety of pancakes, incl. and beer houses.

Beer pancakes: recipe

Ingredients:

Baked milk - 250 ml
Honey - 4.5 tbsp.
Salt - a pinch
Melted butter - 3.5 tbsp.
Flour - 250 g
Chicken eggs - 2 pcs.
Beer - 200 ml

Preparing beer pancakes:

Heat milk, honey, salt, but do not boil.
Add butter to warm milk and stir until it dissolves. Remove food from heat.
In another container, mix flour with eggs and, stirring vigorously, pour in the hot milk mixture in a thin stream. The dough should be homogeneous.
Pour in the beer, stir and leave the dough for 30–45 minutes.
Heat the pan. Before baking the first pancake, grease it with butter and bake the pancakes on both sides until golden brown.
Ready-made pancakes can be served with sour cream, honey or jam. You can also wrap any filling in them, both sweet and salty.

Saturday - “sister-in-law’s get-togethers”

On Saturday evening, the main rite of Maslenitsa took place - the burning of an effigy. Our ancestors considered this Maslenitsa fire to be some kind of magic. For example, people threw unnecessary things into the fire, and with them all the troubles of the past year. After which the ashes were blown across the field, which promised a good harvest. According to old beliefs, fire had magical powers and cleansed a person of negativity and sorrow. On Saturday evening, the Maslenitsa table should be bursting with an abundance of flour dishes: dumplings with cherries, chicken chicken and various pies.

Cherries for dumplings can be used fresh, frozen or canned. Dumplings are steamed or boiled in water.

Ingredients:

Flour - 300 g
Kefir - 250 ml
Soda - ? tsp
Salt - a pinch
Powdered sugar - how much will it take?
Cherries - 350 g

Preparation:

Pour kefir into a bowl, add salt, soda and stir.
Gradually add flour and knead into a soft dough that does not stick to your hands.
Make a sausage from the dough, cut it into pieces, which you flatten with your hand into a thin cake 3 mm thick.
Place 4-6 pitted cherries and 1 tsp in the middle of the cake. powdered sugar. Pinch the edges.
Steam the dumplings in a double boiler or in water. If you want to steam, but don’t have a steamer, then make a steam bath as follows. Boil water in a wide saucepan lined with gauze. Then place the dumplings on cheesecloth, leaving 3 cm between them, close them with a lid and cook for 5 minutes.

If you want to boil the dumplings in water, then place them in a pan of boiling water. Stir to prevent them from sticking and cook until they float to the surface. This usually happens within 3–5 minutes.

Kurnik

Kurnik is a Russian pie that is called the Tsar's Pie, the King of Pies, or the Birthday Pie. It is served on special occasions, incl. and on Maslenitsa.

Ingredients:

Butter (preferably homemade) - 100 g
Sour cream - 110 g
Soda - 0.5 tsp.
Salt - a pinch
Flour - 2 cups
Meat - 500 g
Potatoes - 2 pcs.
Onion - 1 pc.
Eggs - 1 pc.

Step-by-step preparation of chicken:

Melt the butter and cool. Add sour cream, salt, soda and beat in the egg. Mix everything.
Sift the flour, add the sour cream and butter mixture and knead a light dough, cover with cling film and leave for 1 hour.
Meanwhile, prepare the filling. Chop the meat, potatoes and onions very finely with a sharp knife, add salt and pepper. Stir.
Divide the dough into two parts in the following proportions: 2/3 and 1/3.
Roll out most of it to a thickness of 5 mm and place on a baking sheet lined with parchment.
Stepping back 5 cm from the edges, distribute the filling evenly.
Roll out the second part of the dough and place it on top. Pinch the edges and use a knife to make cuts in the center to allow steam to escape.
Brush the chicken with beaten egg and place in the oven for 40 minutes at 180 degrees.

Sunday - “Forgiveness Sunday” - “farewell to Maslenitsa”

The last day of Cheese Week is called Forgiveness Sunday or farewell to Maslenitsa. On Sunday, the most magnificent and massive festivities, fun and games were held. We went around to all relatives and friends, asking them for forgiveness for the grievances they had caused, so that we could begin the next day of Lent with peace in our souls. When meeting people, one had to bow three times, asking for mutual forgiveness, and kiss three times as a sign of reconciliation.

On the last Sunday of Great Maslenitsa, it is customary to eat your fill of any delicacies, because... after it comes Strict Great Lent. In the evening, at the large table, the family gathered together again, where the main dish was pancakes, pancakes with cottage cheese, potato pancakes and pies with cabbage. And after dinner they did another interesting ritual - they rinsed their teeth. There was an opinion that if this is not done at the end of Maslenitsa, then the devils will pull out the cottage cheese that remains in them along with their teeth.

Kefir pancakes

Ingredients:

Kefir - 350 ml
Eggs - 2 pcs.
Flour - 200 g
Salt - a pinch
Powdered sugar - 2 tbsp.
Baking soda - 1 tsp. (can be replaced with baking powder)
Vegetable oil - for frying

Preparation:

Beat eggs, powdered sugar, and salt with a whisk.
Add kefir, soda and gradually add flour. Substitute thick dough with the consistency of rich sour cream.
Heat a frying pan with oil and carefully spoon out the dough using a tablespoon.
Fry the pancakes on both sides for 3 minutes until sunny and serve them with honey or sour cream.

Pancake pie with sweet cottage cheese: recipe

Ingredients (pancakes):

Flour - 6 tbsp.
Chicken eggs - 3 pcs.
Vegetable oil - 2.5 tbsp.
Homemade milk - 500 ml
Salt - a pinch
Sugar or honey - 1 tbsp.

Ingredients (filling):

Sweet cheeses - 400 g
Sour cream or cream - 1 tbsp.
Chicken egg - 1 pc.

Preparation:

Beat eggs, sugar, salt with a whisk.
Add flour, add vegetable oil and mix well.
Pour in milk and stir.
Heat a frying pan, grease it with vegetable oil (for the first pancake) and pour in a portion of the dough. Fry the pancakes on both sides until golden brown.
Mix sweet cheeses, eggs and sour cream.
Grease the baking dish well with butter. Assemble the pie, coating each pancake with cream, and grease the top pancake with 2 tbsp. sour cream.
Bake the pie in the oven for 30–40 minutes until golden brown at 180 degrees. Afterwards, cool it well.

Draniki: step-by-step recipe

Appetizing and hot potato pancakes are an excellent solution for the last day of Maslenitsa.

Ingredients:

Potatoes - 4 pcs.
Chicken eggs - 1 pc.
Onion - ? PC.
Flour - 3 tbsp.
Salt and ground pepper - to taste
Vegetable oil - for frying
Sour cream - 2.5 tbsp.

Preparing pancakes:

Grate the peeled potatoes and onions or pass them through a meat grinder. Squeeze out excess juice from the resulting mass.
Beat the egg into the potato-onion mixture, add flour, salt, sour cream and ground pepper. Mix well.
Heat a frying pan with oil. Place a tablespoon of potato dough and fry on both sides until golden brown.
Place the finished pancakes on a paper napkin so that it absorbs all the fat, and serve them hot with sour cream.

Ingredients:

Fresh yeast - 30 g
Flour - 4 cup
Carrots - 2 pcs.
Powdered sugar - 2 tbsp.
Onions - 1 pc.
Cabbage - 300 g
Drinking water - ? l
Salt - 1 tsp.
Vegetable oil - 3 tbsp.

Preparation:

Dilute the yeast with warm water, add salt and powdered sugar, pour in the butter and gradually add flour. Mix the products well so that the dough is liquid without lumps. Cover it with a napkin and leave for 1.5 hours.
In a frying pan in vegetable oil, fry the grated carrots and onion cut into half rings until browned and soft. Then add shredded cabbage. Add salt, season with sugar, close the lid and simmer for 10–15 minutes.
Place the risen dough on a board sprinkled with flour, form into a thick sausage, which you cut crosswise into small pieces. Bread each piece in flour and make a flatbread with the filling in the center. Form a pie.
Grease a baking sheet with vegetable oil, place the pies and bake them in the oven for 40 minutes at 200 degrees. You can also fry them in oil in a hot frying pan.

How is Maslenitsa celebrated in other countries?

The arrival of spring is celebrated throughout almost all of Europe. In the cities of Western Europe, Maslenitsa, or rather the farewell to winter, turns into a national carnival. They forget about quarrels, and uncontrollable fun and laughter reign. In Poland, on Sunday, the last day of the holiday, in a tavern a violinist pleases unmarried girls with his light melody. In Scotland it is customary to bake “lenten cakes”. In the Czech Republic, young boys smear their faces with soot and walk around the village to music, hanging a wooden block (klatik) around the girls’ necks. In Iceland, a large feast is held, after which various cakes are consumed. In France, they say goodbye to winter with the Mardi Gras carnival, where they bake pancakes and prepare various snacks. In Switzerland and Germany they also organize a Maslenitsa carnival through unlit streets with a theatrical procession. In schools in Denmark, costume performances are held, where schoolchildren, through acquaintances, send comic letters to their friends, without a return address.

Fortune telling for Maslenitsa using pancakes

The first baked pancake on the first Maslenitsa day speaks of the future that awaits throughout the year:

the pancake has smooth edges - there will be a happy marriage. Uneven or torn - you need to think: is the betrothed one you are going to marry?
the pancake easily turned over - marriage is coming, but stuck to the frying pan - stay in the parental home for 3 years;
a thin pancake means a quiet life, but if it’s thick, it means hard work;
a beautiful and ruddy pancake means there will be a lot of health, but a pale pancake means illness.

After reading the above article, you already know how fun it is to celebrate Maslenitsa, you can easily decide on the Maslenitsa menu and predict the future. After all, this week is a time of fun, family and friendly gatherings, delicious food and drinking songs. May this wonderful holiday be wonderful for you!

So Maslenitsa has come, wide, wild, cheerful! These days, even overeating was not considered a sin, and there was plenty to eat. Every day on Maslenitsa is called in a special way and is celebrated in a special way.

Monday - Meeting. On this day, pancakes began to be baked from the very early morning. Each housewife mixed the sour dough in secret from everyone, and God forbid someone looked into the tub - that’s it, damn it, the pancakes won’t turn out. On this day, the first pancake was not eaten, leaving it for the memorial of the dead. The son's wife was sent with the pancakes she had baked to her parents, and in the evening they came to the matchmakers for pancakes.

Ingredients:
3 stacks buckwheat flour,
2 stacks wheat flour,
1 stack cream,
100 g butter,
200 g sour cream,
6 eggs
1 liter of milk,
25 g pressed yeast,
1 tbsp. Sahara,
1 tbsp. salt.

Preparation:
Dissolve buckwheat flour and yeast in 2 glasses of warm milk and leave in a warm place to rise. After an hour of fermentation, add 5 yolks, mashed with butter and sour cream, wheat flour, the remaining milk, salt and sugar. Knead thoroughly with a spatula until the dough begins to lag behind it, and leave to rise in a warm place for 1.5-2 hours. Beat 6 egg whites and cream, add them to the risen dough, stir gently, let stand for 10 minutes and bake the pancakes.

Tuesday - Flirting. A day full of troubles for unmarried girls. On this day, the guys walked around the village to visit the girls, ate pancakes and looked at potential brides. So the girls cooked pancakes and pancakes, with cottage cheese, poppy seeds, butter and honey and other goodies. Based on what kind of pancakes and pancakes a guy eats, the girls wondered what kind of husband they would get. In addition to pancakes, there were pies on the table - and from them the guys could try to guess what kind of hostess the girl they liked would be.

Ingredients:
3 eggs,
120 g flour,
125 ml milk,
4 tbsp. vegetable oil,
30 ml sparkling mineral water,
a pinch of salt.

Preparation:
Separate the yolks from the whites and grind them with flour, milk and mineral water. Separately, beat the whites to stiff peaks with a pinch of salt, carefully fold into the dough and mix. Add vegetable oil and bake thin pancakes, frying them on one side. Fill the pancakes with the filling to taste, wrap in an envelope and fry in vegetable oil until golden brown. The fillings for pancakes can be anything.

Ingredients:
30 g pressed yeast,
270 ml milk,
450 g flour,
2 tbsp. Sahara,
50 g butter,
½ tsp. salt.
Filling:
500 g cottage cheese,
4 yolks,
4 tbsp. Sahara,
40 g melted butter,
2 tbsp. sour cream,
1 tbsp. flour (with a slide),
vanilla.

Preparation:
Heat the milk to 40°C, stir sugar and yeast in it, leave to rise for 10 minutes. Pour melted butter and salt into the beaten yeast, add sifted flour and knead into a smooth dough. Place it in a warm place and let it rise. The dough should double in size. Punch down, let rise again and divide into 16 parts. Place the resulting buns on a parchment-lined baking sheet and let rise. For the filling, rub the cottage cheese through a sieve and mix with the remaining ingredients. If it's not very sweet, add sugar. Use a glass to press indentations in the center of each bun to create something like a basket. Brush the edges of the baskets with yolk mixed with milk and fill with cottage cheese. Place the cheesecakes in the oven preheated to 200°C for 20-30 minutes. Place a frying pan with water on the bottom to prevent the cheesecakes from burning.

Wednesday - Gourmand. Rich tables were laid in all houses. And it was a busy time for mothers-in-law, because on this day they had to treat their son-in-law, and not just bake pancakes, but arrange a real pancake feast! All kinds of pancakes were baked for the beloved son-in-law: large and small, yeast and milk, with caviar and herring, with jam and honey... And numerous tents with all kinds of food were set up on the streets. They sold roasted nuts, honey gingerbread, and sbitni.

Ingredients:
1 liter of water,
50 g honey,
50 g sugar,
3 g hop cones,
¼ tsp. cinnamon,
3 buds of cloves,
3-5 mint leaves.

Preparation:
Add honey, sugar and spices to boiling water. Boil for 10-15 minutes, periodically removing the foam. Then remove from heat, let sit for 30 minutes and strain.

Ingredients:
4 ripe tomatoes,
¾ glass of milk,
2 eggs,
flour,
salt - to taste,
greens, grated cheese.

Preparation:
Cut the tomatoes into slices and cook them in a little water until tender. Rub the tomato mass through a sieve, add salt, pour in milk, scrambled eggs and stir. Add enough flour to make a dough as thick as sour cream. Bake the pancakes, fold them in half, sprinkle with chopped herbs and grated cheese.

Thursday - Take a walk. It was on this day that the famous fist fights, the capture of specially built snow forts, horse riding, racing down ice slides and competitions for the best pancake in the entire village were held. Do you remember the famous paintings “The Capture of the Snowy Town” and “Maslenitsa” or scenes from the film “The Barber of Siberia”? On Thursday, the so-called wide Maslenitsa began, when household chores stopped and unbridled fun began. On this day, not only pancakes are baked, but also larks, doves and swallows - the harbingers of spring. In the evening, the children gathered outside the outskirts to call the sun so that it would quickly bring spring.

Ingredients:
3 stacks milk,
2 stacks flour,
2 eggs,
2 tbsp. butter,
½ tsp. Sahara,
½ tsp. salt,
200 g lightly salted red fish,
50 g butter.

Preparation:
Mash the eggs, salt, sugar and butter with a wooden spoon, dilute with milk and pour the resulting mixture into the flour, stirring constantly so that there are no lumps. The dough should be quite liquid. Bake the pancakes on both sides. Cut the red fish into thin slices. Place fish slices and a piece of butter in the middle of each pancake.

Ingredients:
1 stack milk,
3-3.5 cups of flour,
15 g pressed yeast,
2 tbsp. Sahara,
½ tsp. salt,
¼ cup melted butter,
strong sweet tea - for coating.

Preparation:
Dissolve yeast, sugar and salt in warm milk and stir. leave for 10-15 minutes to ferment. Gradually add flour to the yeast and knead the dough. At the very end of kneading, add melted butter and knead into a smooth dough that will not stick to your hands. Place in a warm place, covered with a napkin. When the dough has doubled in size, knead it and let it rise again. Then divide the dough into 16 parts and roll the dough pieces into ropes. Tie the flagella into a knot, flatten the tail and make several cuts on it, pull out the nose and insert eyes (raisins or buckwheat). Place the doves on a baking tray lined with baking paper, leave to rest, brush with strong sweet tea and bake at 180°C for 20-25 minutes.

Friday - Mother-in-law's evening. Return visit from mother-in-law to son-in-law. Moreover, the mother-in-law the day before had to send her son-in-law a tub for kneading dough, a frying pan and even a ladle. And my father-in-law sent me a bag of flour. And here it was impossible to lose face! The son-in-law had to bake pancakes himself and treat his mother-in-law and father-in-law.

Ingredients:
4 yolks,
800 g flour,
3 stacks milk,
400 g butter.
Filling:
3 eggs,
1 jar of red caviar,
50 g butter,
greens - to taste.

Preparation:
Drain the mashed yolks into the sifted flour, mix with the flour and pour in the melted butter and milk. Beat with a mixer until smooth and has the consistency of heavy cream. Bake pancakes on a hot frying pan on both sides. For the filling, chop the boiled eggs and chop the herbs. Place a teaspoon of caviar, some eggs, herbs and a small piece of butter in the middle of each pancake. Wrap however you like and serve.

Saturday - Sister-in-law's gatherings (Farewell). On Saturday, the young daughter-in-law invited her husband's sisters to her place. If they were unmarried, the daughter-in-law invited her unmarried friends. If the sisters-in-law were already married, then all the married girlfriends were invited and the whole train went to visit. It was customary to give gifts to sisters-in-law and, of course, treat them to delicious pancakes, pies or baked fish.

Ingredients:
300 g fish fillet,
1 onion,
1 stack kefir,
3 tbsp. flour,
1 egg,
salt, ground black pepper, seasonings - to taste.

Preparation:
Pass the fish fillet along with the onion through a meat grinder 2 times or grind in a blender. Mix with kefir, beaten egg and flour, season to taste. The dough should look like pancakes. If necessary, add kefir. Bake the pancakes in a hot frying pan with vegetable oil until golden brown.

Ingredients:
200 ml milk,
125 g flour,
4 eggs,
2 tbsp. Sahara,
2 tsp starch,
2 tbsp. nuts,
2 tbsp. melted butter,
1 tsp powdered sugar,
1 pack of frozen cherries,
cinnamon, salt, ground allspice - to taste.

Preparation:
Separate the yolks from the whites and knead them with flour, milk and a pinch of salt. Cover with a napkin and leave in a warm place to swell. Place the cherries in a saucepan, pour in 2 cups. water and boil with sugar, cinnamon and allspice. Dissolve the starch in a small amount of water and add to the cherry compote. Boil for 5 minutes and remove from heat. Finely chop the nuts. Beat the whites into a fluffy foam, combine with nuts and add to the dough. Bake the pancakes in a frying pan with melted butter. Serve with cherry dessert and powdered sugar.

Ingredients:
5-6 stacks. flour,
3 squirrels,
½ cup milk,
½ cup water,
½ tsp. salt.
Filling:
800 g frozen cherries,
½ cup Sahara,
3 tbsp. decoys.

Preparation:
Combine the whites with water, milk and salt and mix well. Gradually add flour and knead into a stiff dough. Cover it with a napkin and leave it in a warm place for 30-40 minutes. For the filling, defrost the cherries, sprinkle with sugar and semolina and leave for 30 minutes. Then drain the juice and fill the dumplings. Roll out the dough thinly, cut out circles using a notch, place a teaspoon of filling in the center and pinch the edges. Boil the dumplings in boiling salted water. Serve with butter or sour cream.

Sunday - Forgiveness Sunday. The culmination of the holiday is the burning of the effigy of Winter. On this day, everyone asks each other for forgiveness for grievances caused, whether willingly or unwillingly. This is a kind of rite of repentance and cleansing before Lent. Even strangers hugged and asked each other for forgiveness. Sunday is the last day of holiday treats, on which it was customary to eat to your heart's content. At the end of the day, the bathhouse was heated, and then everything that was left from the Maslenitsa festivities was burned. The ashes were scattered in the field - for a good harvest, so that there would be something to bake pancakes from next year.

Ingredients:
14-16 pcs. any savory pancakes,
100-150 g chicken meat,
200 ml sour cream,
200 g mushrooms,
1 onion,
4 eggs,
50 g hard cheese,
salt, pepper, dill - to taste.

Preparation:
Cut the chicken into pieces and fry along with half the chopped onion. Salt, pepper, add 1 tbsp. sour cream and simmer for 10-15 minutes. Separately, fry the mushrooms with the remaining onions. Boil the eggs, chop and combine with chopped dill. Place 3-5 pancakes in the pan so that they cover the bottom and sides of the pan and hang out. Place a pancake on the bottom, brush with sour cream and add mushrooms. Cover with 1-2 pancakes and add chicken. Place 1-2 pancakes again, press lightly, brush with sour cream and add eggs. Place 1-2 pancakes on top. Fold the edges of the overhanging pancakes and sprinkle grated cheese on top. Place in an oven preheated to 180°C for 20-25 minutes.

Ingredients:
200-250 g of mushrooms (champignons, oyster mushrooms, etc.),
1 onion,
5-6 tbsp. butter,
2-3 tbsp. sour cream,
7-8 eggs,
½-⅓ cup. milk,
40 g cheese,
parsley, pepper, salt - to taste.

Preparation:
Boil the mushrooms until half cooked, chop finely and simmer with chopped onion and 1 tbsp. oils At the end of stewing, add salt, pepper and sour cream. The filling should be quite thick. Beat eggs with milk, add finely chopped parsley and salt. Divide the egg mixture into 3 parts and fry 3 omelettes. Place the omelets in a frying pan, topping them with mushroom filling to form a cake. Sprinkle the top layer with grated cheese, pour over melted butter and place in a hot oven for a few minutes to melt the cheese.

Happy Maslenitsa!

Larisa Shuftaykina

From Monday, that is, from today, until Sunday inclusive, we bake pancakes, eat them and treat each other! Maslenitsa has arrived. But won’t it get boring to treat yourself to pancakes all week? Not at all! Maslenitsa has its own strict schedule, each day of the week has its own symbolic meaning. And every day you can cook something Maslenitsa, festive, but original!

In the pagan past of Maslenitsa, one of the “duties” of the holiday was not so much a farewell to winter, but a guarantee of fertile abundance in all aspects of life - on the field and in bed; That’s why even now on Maslenitsa you need to bake a lot of pancakes. Sooooo many pancakes. Very! As they say, “it’s not buttery without a pancake.” However, pancakes can also get boring, so it is very important to diversify the menu; This is quite easy to do with pancakes. Filling, dough and even shape - you can show ingenuity in everything and please your family and friends.

Monday of Shrovetide: Meeting

On Monday they start baking pancakes and the first pancake is given to the poor - to commemorate deceased relatives. The daughter-in-law goes to visit her parents, and in the evening both the father-in-law and mother-in-law visit the matchmakers. You can surprise your relatives with a pancake cake, disguising it with sour cream, chocolate or curd cream so that you won’t immediately guess that its basis is traditional pancakes. It can be sweet or unsweetened, with mushroom, fish, caviar, cranberry, strawberry, apple filling - decide for yourself.

The main thing to remember is that on Maslenitsa, meat filling of pancakes is not allowed, since Maslenitsa, or Cheese Week, is the last week before Lent, and the “relaxation of the flesh” consists of allowing only dairy products. As they say, “the Maslena River is wide – it even flooded Lent.”

On Monday they make a scarecrow of Maslenitsa. If you suddenly don’t have the opportunity to impale this stuffed animal and carry it through the streets in a sleigh, you can, in the spirit of the traditions of the Volga region, make a straw butter doll on Monday and throw it into the fire at the end of the week, “so that all adversity burns away, just like a doll burns.” .

Tuesday of Shrovetide Week: Flirting

On Tuesday, the groom's parents went to the bride's viewing party in order to come to an agreement and, after Lent, sit down to an honest feast for the wedding. Considering that you definitely need to take pancakes with you, you can make them convenient for transportation, namely, turn them into pancake rolls with caviar or salmon. This filling will definitely make a good impression!

On Tuesday, family and friends are invited to visit, treating them to pancakes. “Our snowy mountains are ready and our pancakes are baked - please welcome!” Since you are already going to the snow slides (that is, you bought tickets to the skating rink), it is best to prepare sweet pancakes that are easily absorbed and provide energy for the most virtuoso figure skating - for example, chocolate pancakes, French, American hotcake pancakes with maple syrup, or English thin pancakes with berry filling.

Wednesday of Shrovetide Week: Gourmets

On Wednesday, the son-in-law goes to visit his mother-in-law for the proverbial “mother-in-law pancakes.” The mother-in-law must show her son-in-law all her cordiality and hospitality. “Son-in-law on the doorstep - pie on the table,” or “Son-in-law comes - where can I get sour cream?”

If the mother-in-law wants to feed her son-in-law well, it is worth preparing hearty, or, or, or classic merchant pancakes with salmon and traditional ones.

Well, in order to confirm the name of this Maslenitsa day - Lakomki - prepare, or.

Thursday of Holy Week: Revelry

Thursday has the self-explanatory name “revelry”. On this day, no guests at home, everyone goes outside - ice skating, storming a snowy town, visiting a fair, participating in wall-to-wall fist fights... uh, the last one, it seems, should be crossed off the list of entertainments. Although the “revelry” of this day, like all of Maslenitsa, was created in order to brightly, with noise and sparkles in the eyes, throw out all the melancholy and anger accumulated over the dark and cold winter.

On Thursday, prepare bright and unusual pancakes - Moroccan flatbread pancakes with semolina flour, Belarusian pumpkin pancakes, Arabic kataef pancakes with custard, Japanese cabbage pancakes...

Or surprise everyone with your revelry, treating them to the most luxurious pancakes: for example, or chic.

Since Thursday is a real riot, you can set the table (and right in the cold!) with mountains of a wide variety of pancakes!

Friday of Shrovetide Week: Mother-in-law's Party

On Friday, the mother-in-law strikes back, that is, a visit, which is why Friday was called “mother-in-law’s party.” It is the daughter who should prepare the pancakes for the treat. How to surprise your mother with your culinary skills? You can, for example, make fluffy and aromatic Ukrainian nalistiniki with cottage cheese, which are served in a deep clay bowl that retains heat and aroma. Or serve plump and soft ones - also Ukrainian, or, or aromatic, or tender...

Traditional and other classic options that have not left the Russian table for centuries look great on a generous table:, ....

However, the culinary portal Gratin offers you only a sample menu, and you, having become acquainted with it, decide for yourself what to cook!

Sunday of Holy Week: Farewell

Sunday is the apotheosis of all Maslenitsa. On this day, everyone asks each other for forgiveness for the grievances they have caused, and goes to the bathhouse to cleanse themselves not only physically, but also spiritually. In the church, the rite of forgiveness is performed: the rector and the believers ask each other for forgiveness, answering the request “God will forgive.” Prepare the pancakes that your family liked the most over the previous six days of the holiday!

And in the evening there is a party and the burning of an effigy of Maslenitsa. By the way, all the uneaten fasting food is thrown into the fire so that on Monday, when Great Lent begins, the tasty leftovers do not tempt those fasting.

We sincerely wish you to “ride the roller coaster and roll around in pancakes” on Maslenitsa!