Naleśniki — Polish Sweet Cheese Crepes

Ingredients

• Crepes: 1 cup flour + 2 eggs + 1¼ cups milk + pinch of salt
• Filling: 1½ cups cottage cheese or farmer cheese + 3 tbsp sugar + 1 tsp vanilla + 1 egg yolk + lemon zest
• 3 tbsp butter
• Sour cream and berries or jam, to serve

Method

1. Whisk the crepe batter smooth and thin; rest 10 minutes. Fry thin crepes in a buttered pan, 1 minute per side, stacking as you go.
2. Beat the cheese with the sugar, vanilla, yolk, and lemon zest until creamy.
3. Spread each crepe with filling, fold into quarters or roll into blintz parcels.
4. Return the folded naleśniki to the buttered pan and gild 2 minutes per side, until golden and warmed to the center.
5. Serve with sour cream and berries. Polish childhoods are measured in these; adults order them without apology.