Pancakes are the main attribute of Pancake Day. Without this type of flour products it is impossible to imagine this holiday.
Pancake Day for our people is considered the personification of the end of winter, the onset of spring, thaw. With the celebration of spring is associated with many interesting legends.
One of the tales says that Pancake is the daughter of Santa Claus. Initially, the girl lived in the North, among the eternal ice and frost. Shrovetide was a fragile and vulnerable person. Once the girl was seen by people, fed with pancakes and dressed. Good young men asked Pancake Girl to persuade Frost to end the winter. The
girl fulfilled the people’s request, turning into a big ruddy woman. Together with Maslenitsa, people rejoiced and baked many different pancakes. openwork and puffy, on kefir and on milk.
Ingredients for pancakes on kefir:
- kefir – 500 ml;
- flour – 320 g;
- eggs – 2 pcs;
- vegetable oil – 50 ml;
- sugar – 3 tbsp;
- boiling water – 500 ml;
- salt – a pinch.
Preparation of pancakes on kefir:
Eggs mix in one bowl with salt and granulated sugar. Beat the ingredients until the sugar grains dissolve completely.
Pour kefir into the egg mixture and mix well. Sift flour into the mixture, knead the pancake batter. Pour steep boiling water into the batter, continuing to stir the mass.
Pour vegetable oil into the batter, stir all the ingredients together. On a clean heated frying pan pour thin layers of dough, fry pancakes until golden on both sides.
You get thin openwork pancakes for breakfast or Shrovetide feast.
It will be good to wrap some favorite filling in kefir pancakes.
