blintse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blintses
Senses: examples: text: DAIRY DISHES / Will also be served at the / בשר / HUNGARIAN RESTAURANT / 815 9th St. N. W. / Come and try our / Milchige Borsch and Blintses
ref: 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:
text: Sternberg features such delicatessen as pickled herring, chopped liver, cheese blintses, kreplach, borsht, with filled fish every Friday.
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: Cheese Blintses
ref: 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:
text: blintses Dairy sleeping bags
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: To her, my mind was an open book—the kind of book that used to be circulated to private subscribers only, and nowadays ropes in a stack of blintses from sales of a quarter of a million to all and sundry.
ref: 1954, Hartley Howard [pseudonym; Leopold Horace Ognall], chapter XI, in Bowman on Broadway, large print edition, South Yarmouth, Mass.: Curley Publishing, published 1992, →ISBN, page 206:
text: In addition to traditional foods such as rolled cabbage, blintses, potato latkes and kreplach, there will be such baked goods as strudel, lekach, mondelbrodt, chalah, dark and white breads, rolls, muffins and biscuits.
ref: 1957 February 6, “Tempting Foods Will Be Offered at Emanu-El Sale”, in Honolulu Star-Bulletin, volume 46, number 32, Honolulu, Haw., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 27, column 1:
text: Mother and Grandmother put the refreshments on the long table on the terrace. There were cheese blintses and honey cakes in honor of the holiday [Shovuos].
ref: 1958, Helen Fine, “One Year Old”, in G’dee, New York, N.Y.: Union of American Hebrew Congregations, →OCLC, page 151:
text: The singer […] instructs everyone to decorate their houses, don holiday attire, march in the parade, go to the theater, and make merry at banquets with song and dance “. . . to spite our enemies, who despise workingmen. . . . But we have shown them that we know how to spill our blood for freedom. . . . Therefore, we drink a toast to everyone . . . and eat good blintses. . . . May we live till next year and not a single one of us be missing!”
ref: 1963, Ruth Rubin, “Soviet Yiddish Folk Song”, in Voices of a People: Yiddish Folk Song, New York, N.Y.; London: Thomas Yoseloff, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 411:
text: But, if the President is interested in the Jewish vote, as well as in the votes of farmers, or vegetarians, or oculists, this is his privilege. This is the glory of America. We consider all citizens. I am proud of the fact that whoever wants the vote of New York State has to eat blintses. (They are very good, by the way, when properly made.)
ref: 1967 July 15, Benjamin Kelson, “From the Mailbag . . .”, in The Bee, volume LXV, number 1061, Danville, Va., →OCLC, page 8, column 8:
text: Milk dishes, such as cheese cake and cheese blintses, are the traditional foods to symbolize the Bible — which is likened to milk, the Rabbi said.
ref: 1969 May 16, “Jews Will Mark Feast of Weeks”, in The Modesto Bee and News-Herald, volume 92, number 117, Modesto, Calif., →OCLC, page B-4, column 1:
text: Slavic are knish and blintse, which do not need translation. […] The next is a partnership curse, vern zol fun dir a blintse un fun im a kats, er zol dikh oyfesn un mit dir zikh dervergn, volt men fun aykh beyde poter gevorn, “May you turn into a blintse and he into a cat, and may he eat you up and choke to death on you, so that we would be rid of both of you”—the parties of the second and the third part are taken care of by the party of the first part.
ref: 1971, Maurice Samuel, In Praise of Yiddish, New York, N.Y.: Cowles Book Company, →ISBN, pages 130 and 230:
text: According to Dr. Leon Weinberger, professor of religious studies at the University, one of the most delicious dishes served during Chanuka is cheese blintses, which he enjoys making—and eating. […] Spread the cooked side of the blintse dough with a small amount of cheese filling and fold in half, bringing sides together. […] Put sour cream or fruit over the blintses. Serve hot. Dr. Weinberger emphasizes two points: […] be sure to brown the blintses only slightly.
ref: 1972 December 14, Susan Sanford, “Campus Chefs Share Their Favorite Recipes”, in The Montgomery Advertiser, 145th year, number 299, Montgomery, Ala., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 47, columns 1–2:
text: Since she lived only four blocks away, on Burrows Avenue, we were treated to this kind of hysteria regularly. “The blintses!” she wailed. “They’re driving me out of my mind!” / When Papa, feeling guilty at how hard she was working, said: “We can do without blintses, Sadie,” she stared at him aghast. / “Are you crazy? What kind of wedding is it with no blintses?” She made it sound as though nobody was legally married unless there were blintses on the table.
ref: 1975, Bess Kaplan, chapter 5, in Corner Store, Winnipeg, Man.: Queenston House, →ISBN, section 1, pages 157–158:
text: Pancakes, waffles and blintses — especially blintses — are house specialties, said Mrs. Vdenek. “We have one family coming in from Camarillo every Sunday for our blintses, and I’m kind of proud of that,” she said.
ref: 1975 September 28, Jim McLain, “Small talk: This Ventura family gets together for breakfast”, in Ventura County Star-Free Press, 100th year, number 328, Ventura, Calif., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7, column 2:
text: Her mind, busy as a computer, put together a menu for tomorrow’s supper that would dazzle the chef of a fancy hotel. Cold spinach borscht, blintses with sour cream, and for dessert, apple and raisin shtrudel which she had made this morning while awaiting the moment to go out and meet . . . fah! H. Schenkle.
ref: 1977, Bess Kaplan, chapter 6, in Malke, Malke, Winnipeg, Man.: Queenston House, →ISBN, page 53:
text: Potato pancakes are another favorite at Stein’s. Over 4,500 are served every week with choice of applesauce or sour cream. Cheese blintses are another delight.
ref: 1981 March 13, “Stein’s in Lyons honors the Irish”, in Cicero Berwyn Life, 55th year, number 31, Berwyn, Ill., →OCLC, “Dining/Entertainment” section edited by Bob Fantl, page 12, column 1:
text: There are also dishes with sizzling hot cheese blintses.
ref: 1984, Sophia N. Cedarbaum, “Shavuot: The Birthday of the Torah”, in A First Book of Jewish Holidays, New York, N.Y.: Union of American Hebrew Congregations, →ISBN, page 72:
text: Judith went to the Syrian general Holofernes’ tent and brought him salty dairy foods which made him drink a lot of wine. When he passed out, she beheaded him, causing his soldiers to panic and flee. In honor of this great victory for the Jewish rebellion, the custom is to eat cheese blintses and other dairy foods on Hanukkah.
ref: 1997, Reudor, “The Women of Hanukkah”, in The Doodle Family Hanukkah, Huntington Beach, Calif.: Atara Publishing, →ISBN, page 46:
text: Bubbe—did you know how I loved you so? Would she again laugh at my trembling Yiddish? Or glow with pride, as I copy her blintses?
ref: 2002, Marcia Lubell, “Dreams”, in Jessica Rapisarda, editor, The Eternal Sea (Letters from the Soul), Owing Mills, Md.: International Library of Poetry, →ISBN, page 147, column 2:
text: She strolled over to one of the tables and picked up a couple of blintses. They were her favorites, filled with currant jam.
ref: 2013, M. K. Hammond, chapter 14, in The Rabbi of Worms, Eugene, Ore.: Resource Publications, →ISBN, page 164:
text: [H]is wife, Shprintse, had baked a blintse as big as a cake and everyone wanted to taste it. So all children of the land came running, burning with excitement, to see the blintse as big as a cake, and all the children wanted to taste it.
ref: 2015 July 27, Kadye Molodovsky, translated by Barnett Zumoff, “Blintses”, in Emanuel S. Goldsmith, editor, Yiddish Literature in America: 1870–2000, volume 3, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN:
text: I had this large khachapuri and the cheese blintse over at this Russian/Georgian bakery. Oh there was cheese alright, lots of it. My stomach definitely complained later, but it was worth it. The blintse was a little pocket of delight, sweet raisins combined with the crumbly and savory cheese.
ref: 2023 August 20, Siddhartha G., “Moscow & Tbilisi Bakery Store”, in Yelp, archived from the original on 17 Sep 2023:
glosses: Alternative spelling of blintz.