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

Explanation

A blintz is a very thin pancake that's rolled around a filling and either baked or fried. Breakfast blintzes are often filled with sweetened cream cheese and topped with fruit preserves and a dusting of powdered sugar. Blintzes can be sweet or savory, stuffed with sugary ricotta cheese and baked, or filled with ground meat or potato and fried. Every blintz starts with a blini, the crepe-like pancake that is wrapped around a filling before being cooked. Sometimes, savory blintzes are topped with a dollop of sour cream. Blintz, from the Yiddish blintze, stems from the Russian blinyets, "little pancake."

Example Sentences

Perhaps that’s why the other morning I woke up and made another blintz souffle.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2020

Where most versions of the blintz are heavy and dense, the Fromin’s blintzes tend to be on the lighter side, perfectly browned and with just enough cheese in the middle.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2018

He had raised the issue a few weeks earlier, over a cheese blintz at the original Junior’s on Flatbush Avenue.

From New York Times • Sep. 20, 2012

New York, where folks expect you to be happy when they stuff a blintz in your mouth, is no place for someone like this.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then Virginia patted her Clairoled pouf, pinned on a diamond as big as a blintz, and walked out to plant her guests around the living-room-style set.

From Time Magazine Archive