A cheese blintzes or blintz (; ) is a rolled filled

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cuisine, in essence a

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based on a '' crepe'' or Russian ''

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''. The corresponding Russian dish is called ''

blinchiki Blini (plural ''blinis'' or ''blini'', rarely ''bliny''; pl., Ukrainian: млинці pl., ''mlyntsi''), singular: blin, are an Eastern European crêpe made from various kinds of flour of buckwheat, wheat, etc. They may be served with smetana ...

'', literally "little ''blini''".

History

Traditional blintzes are filled with sweetened cheese, sometimes with the addition of raisins, or

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s and then slightly sautéed. They are served on

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. The word ''blintz'' in English comes from the

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word or , coming from a

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word ''блинец lin-yets' meaning '' blin'', or pancake. Like the

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es, blintzes represent foods that are now considered typically Jewish, and exemplify the changes in foods that Jews adopted from their Christian neighbors. For

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is used instead of flour.

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