Russian Pancake week is a week before
Lent, seven weeks before Easter. The tradition of cooking pancakes which symbolise the sun is derived from the sun worship of the ancient times. Now pancakes are the symbol of passing winter and coming spring. Each hostess has her own recepie of pancakes, there are no right and wrong recepies - the main rule is your personal preferences.
Here is the simplest recepie of vegan pancakes, of so called "thin" pancakes (for "thick" you need some yeast).
Ingredients:
1-2 cups of white flour
2 tbs of soy flour
1/2 cup of sunflower oil
water
sugar, salt to taste
1. Start with adding water to white flour little by little, to make nice batter, without flakes. The batter should be liquid but not too much - a consistence something like that of treacle. It's not easy to find this appropriate consistence, so add some flour or water in the process of cooking, looking at what is turning out..
2. Mix soy flour with water and add to the batter. Add salt and sugar.
3. Heat a frying pan with at least 3 tea spoons of oil till the oil is boiling.
4. Spoon up a good ladle of the batter and pour out onto the pan. Swing the pan from right to left to let the batter spread in a thin layer at the whole surface. Fry for about 30 seconds, then turn uside down with the help of a broad knife. Lay the ready pancake on a plate, grease the pan again and pour out a new portion of batter. And so it goes.
The first pancake may be not as nice as you'd like it to be, but the next ones will get out better and better. You can make some filling (tofu, cooked vegetables, raisins - whatever you like) and roll it up in pancakes. Or just deep them in jam and eat. )))
