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Old Fashioned Cheese Blintzes Recipe


Old Fashioned Cheese Blintzes Recipe
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My husband says these are as good as his mother used to make and as he remembers them. Truly blintzes are not difficult to prepare. We were recently talking about foods our mom's used to prepare and so blintzes came to mind.

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Ingredients
  • Batter:
  • 1 cup flour or more as needed
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla
  • dash salt
  • Filling;
  • 1 pound farmers cheese ( whole milk ricotta cheese may be substituted )
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1/4 cup sugar or to taste
  • dash salt

Directions
  1. For crepes: Blend all in electric blender..
  2. Mixture should be a heavy cream consistency.
  3. If not blend a Tbs or more flour again until mixture resembles heavy cream.
  4. Let batter sit on counter 30 minutes before using.
  5. For filling: blend all well by hand.
  6. Made the crepes: Use a 9 inch heavy duty quality non stick skillet and spray with cooking spray.
  7. Over moderately high heat ladle 2 oz of batter while tilting pan and shaking to and fro to cover bottom of pan.
  8. Cook until crepe is set.
  9. This only takes minutes.
  10. You don't have to cook the other side as theses are quite thin and cook almost through.
  11. Remove crepe from pan and lay flat on counter or clean dish towel .
  12. Place about 1/4 cup filling or more as desired in center of crepe and roll up crepes and tuck ends under, placing seam side down on plate.
  13. Repeat the crepes and filling them.
  14. Baked version: place crepes seam side down in buttered 9 x 13 or similar pan.
  15. Brush tops with melted butter. Bake 375 to 400F about 45 to 60 minutes or golden.
  16. Traditional Fried version ( photograph )
  17. In skillet melt a Tbs of butter and fry 3 crepes per pan - seam side down until golden on both sides over medium high heat.
  18. Turn only once
  19. Repeat frying crepes with more butter.
  20. Place seam side down on platter
  21. Other Fillings: can be all fruit and other cheese such as cottage cheese, and additions such as raisins, cinnamon, nuts etc.
  22. Serving suggestions: serve with any fruit or dessert sauce, sour cream, blueberry or cherry pie filling or fresh fruit such as blueberries ,cherries

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Comments


Hi...
This recipe was a favorite of my
Mothers'...I lost it...so glad to
have found it through your generous sharing!
Thanks...mjcmcook...


These sound great cant wait to try them


Excellent recipe and LOVE blintzes!


I have a very similar recipe for Polish nalesniki z serem (crepes with cheese. Didn't post it yet though but I absolutely love Cheese Blintzes and your recipe is great, so detailed.


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