blintz

American  

[blints] / blɪnts /

Also blintze

noun

Jewish Cooking.

1. a thin pancake folded or rolled around a filling, as of cheese or fruit, and fried or baked.

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blintz British  

/ blɪnts /

noun

1. a thin pancake folded over a filling usually of apple, cream cheese, or meat

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Etymology

Origin of blintz

First recorded in 1900–05; from Yiddish blintse; compare Byelorussian blints-, stem of blinéts, diminutive of blin “pancake”; blin

Example Sentences

Breathing in the warm, musky fragrance, I remembered Piatra Neamt, the taste of cheese blintzes, and the crowing of roosters in the morning.

From Literature

Ms. Zabar describes the foods and other items sold at Zabar’s and the employees that sell them, and gives family recipes for Jewish staples like chopped liver and blintzes.

From New York Times

We know that mascarpone cheese can transform sweet things like sorbet, carrot cake, lemon pie, cupcakes, and fruit blintzes.

From Salon

Dairy restaurants were frequented by hordes of Jewish customers hoping to quash their perennial yen for blintzes and gefilte fish.

From Salon

Instead of rolled pancakes, these blintzes are filled with a sweetened lemon cheese mixture and formed into individual square pockets.

From Salon