Maslenitsa (Pancake week) is the only purely Russian Holiday that dates back to the pagan times. Celebrating Maslenitsa, people are letting the long-annoying winter out and the long-awaited spring in.
The essential element, of course, are pancakes (blini). Pancake is a symbol of sun. It is as round, gold and warm as the sun. Pancakes are served hot with either butter, or sour cream, or caviar, or mushrooms.

My favorite are simple pancakes. Here is the recipe:

Flour - 2,5 glasses
Eggs - 4 to 5
Sugar - 100 g
Dairy Butter - 200 g
Milk - 3 to 4 glasses

For the simple thin pancakes the dough is prepared of flour, milk, eggs and salt. First thing you should do is separate the yolks from whites. Then stir up the yolks with sugar, slowly add milk whilst stirring. Then add the salt and the melted hot butter. Then start adding the flour (very slowly), stirring the mixture and smoothing the dough nubbles. As the last step, add the stirred whites. Now everything is ready for baking pancakes on the hot frying pans.