blintse

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A form of blintz — A thin blin (pancake), filled (often with sweet cheese) and folded, then fried and often served with sour cream, fruit, or a sweet sauce.

Scrabble 9

Meanings

nounblintse (plural blintses)

plural blintses

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of blintz.

    Cheese Blintses

    1942, S[amuel] H[arrison] Markowitz, “Chanuko”, in Leading a Jewish Life in the Modern World (Union Adult Series), Cincinnati, Oh.: Union of American Hebrew Congregations, →OCLC, Appendix, page 297
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    DAIRY DISHES / Will also be served at the / בשר / HUNGARIAN RESTAURANT / 815 9th St. N. W. / Come and try our / Milchige Borsch and Blintses

    1920 June 6, “Where to Lunch and Dine”, in The Washington Post, number 16,063, Washington, D.C.: Washington Post Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, “Amusements/Automobiles” section, page 1, column 1

    Sternberg features such delicatessen as pickled herring, chopped liver, cheese blintses, kreplach, borsht, with filled fish every Friday.

    1933 August 8, George Davis, “Things Change but Humans Remain as They Were Before […]”, in The Cleveland Press, number 17540, Cleveland, Oh., →OCLC, page 15, column 3

    Like other holidays, Shovuos has some special dishes. They are made of cheese and other dairy products. That is because the Torah is often compared to milk. Most people eat a food called blintses. Have you ever eaten them? Tell your mother to make them and see if you like them.

    1941, Mamie G[oldsmith] Gamoran, “Shovuos: After Seven Weeks”, in Days and Ways: The Story of Jewish Holidays and Customs (Union Graded Series), Cincinnati, Oh.: Union of American Hebrew Congregations, →OCLC, page 159

    blintses Dairy sleeping bags

    1948, Sammy Levenson, “A Guide to Basic Yiddish”, in Meet the Folks: A Session of American-Jewish Humor with Sammy Levenson, New York, N.Y.: Citadel Press, published January 1951, →OCLC, page 119

    The great feature of Shevuos is the dairy dishes served in all possible combinations—blintses, kreplakh with cheese, pot cheese and sour cream, cheese strudel with raisins and cinnamon.

    1952, Mark Zborowski, Elizabeth Herzog, “Gut Yontev”, in Life Is with People: The Jewish Little-Town in Eastern Europe, New York, N.Y.: International Universities Press, →OCLC, page 391
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