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Ideal to accompany caviar, smoked salmon or salmon eggs are the delicious thin pancakes similar to crepes muffins which are different for the rise they need during the preparation. A typical food of Russian cuisine that once, in pre-Christian era, took on a spiritual significance: for the Slav peoples, in fact, due to their round shape, the pancakes symbolize the sun and for this reason were prepared in late winter to honor the rebirth the sun, still a tradition adopted by the Orthodox Church, at precisely the Maslenica. To prepare the pancakes can be used for any type of flour from wheat flour, oat and buckwheat and millet, although wheat is by far the ingredient that is most used in the preparation. A spoonful of sour cream spread on hot muffin and an addition of salmon or caviar cosituiscono the filling of the pancakes, which are rolled into the pancakes, so the muffin rendeno a real delicacy, and it is no coincidence that the pancakes are also prevalent in the United States, albeit with some different parameter: used by Jewish immigrants who used them in her kitchen, the pancakes are stuffed with cheese and, although they have no particular religious significance in Judaism, are prepared as a Jewish feast days Shavuot and Chanukah.
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