Emma Goldman's Cheese Blintz Recipe

"I wish you were here for I am making Blintzes"... - Emma Goldman to Alexander Berkman’s companion, Emmy Eckstein, Aug. 28, 1934.

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Submitted by GoogleMurrayBookchin on August 15, 2019

Having been starved for so many years, he now ate ravenously. It was extraordinary what an amount of food he could absorb, especially of his favourite Jewish dishes, of which he had been deprived so long. It was nothing at all for him to follow up a substantial meal with a dozen blintzes (a kind of Yiddish pancake containing cheese or meat) or a huge apple pie. I cooked and baked, happy in his enjoyment of the food. Most of my friends were in the habit of paying court to my culinary art, but no one ever did so much justice to it as my poor, famished Sasha. - Emma Goldman, Living My Life

"I wish you were here for I am making Blintzes"... - Emma Goldman to Alexander Berkman’s companion, Emmy Eckstein, Aug. 28, 1934.

Ingredients

3 eggs
1¾ cups flour
2 pounds or 4 cups of cheese, preferably pot cheese but Farmer’s cheese or dry cottage cheese may be more easily available
3 cups water
Butter
1 tablespoon sugar

The Blattlach (Crepes)

They are the principal thing; they must be as fine as tissue paper. You beat up two eggs and add three cups of water, then add flour, sifted, to make the mixture as thin as you would for fannekuchen (pancakes), very, very thin. For best results, strain the batter through a sieve to remove lumps, then refrigerate, covered, for two hours. Then make your frying pan hot, wipe it thoroughly with butter, and pour in enough of the mixture to cover the pan thinly. Use about two tablespoons of batter, tilting the pan to coat the surface thinly and evenly. Then when it gets yellow, turn it over on a cloth. Make all your blätter (crepes) like this.

The Filling

The cheese is prepared with an egg and sugar.

Assemble and Fry

Small pieces of the cheese mixture are wrapped in the blätter. Then fry until brown.

Enjoy!

The Emma Goldman Papers
University of California
2241 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720-6030
Phone Number: (510) 642-4708

Comments

Noah Fence

4 years 7 months ago

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Submitted by Noah Fence on August 18, 2019

Emma Goldman cancelled - not vegan!

GoogleMurrayBookchin

4 years 6 months ago

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Submitted by GoogleMurrayBookchin on September 13, 2019

"No"

R Totale

4 years 6 months ago

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Submitted by R Totale on September 14, 2019

But does anyone have Anton Pannekoek's pannekoek recipe?

Battlescarred

4 years 6 months ago

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Submitted by Battlescarred on September 16, 2019

With a Jan Appel filling

slothjabber

4 years 6 months ago

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Submitted by slothjabber on September 17, 2019

Has anyone made these?

Sike

4 years 6 months ago

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Submitted by Sike on September 18, 2019

Noah Fence

Emma Goldman cancelled - not vegan!

Not so fast, maybe she was into Freeganism?

Noah Fence

4 years 6 months ago

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Submitted by Noah Fence on September 18, 2019

Sike

Noah Fence

Emma Goldman cancelled - not vegan!

Not so fast, maybe she was into Freeganism?

Ow come on comrade, you know the deal - cancel first, ask questions later. That’s how the internet left rolls, right?

Sike

4 years 6 months ago

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Submitted by Sike on September 18, 2019

Noah Fence

Ow come on comrade, you know the deal - cancel first, ask questions later. That’s how the internet left rolls, right?

True that.

jef costello

4 years 6 months ago

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Submitted by jef costello on September 21, 2019

Do these need deep frying? If not I might give them a try.

Black Badger

4 years 6 months ago

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Submitted by Black Badger on September 22, 2019

Deep-fried blintzes? What kind of monster ARE you?

Sike

4 years 6 months ago

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Submitted by Sike on September 25, 2019

If I can't eat blintzes deep fried, then I don't want any part of your revolution.

Noah Fence

4 years 6 months ago

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Submitted by Noah Fence on September 25, 2019

Sike

If I can't eat blintzes deep fried, then I don't want any part of your revolution.

Collaborator confirmed! All deep fried foods are counter revolutionary - a secret weapon of the ruling class to create a sluggish proletariat.
A low fat high carb diet guarantees that your Molotov cocktails with be thrown further and with greater accuracy!