{{short description|Traditional Jewish pancake}} {{Infobox food | name = Blintz | image = Cheese blintzes with blackberries.jpg | caption = Traditional cheese blintzes topped with blackberry compote | image_size = | alternate_name = Blintzes | country = Eastern Europe | region = | creator = Ashkenazi Jewish community | course = | type = Jewish cuisine | served = Hot, traditionally with sour cream or fruit compote | main_ingredient = Dough; filling: farmer's cheese or other similar soft cheese, or fruit preserves. | variations = | calories = | other = }}

A '''cheese blintzes''' or '''blintz''' ({{langx|he|חֲבִיתִית}}; {{langx|yi|בלינצע}}) is a rolled filled pancake in Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine, in essence a wrap based on a ''crêpe'' or Russian ''blini''.<ref name=mw>{{cite web |title=blintze {{!}} a thin, usually wheat-flour pancake folded to form a casing (as for cheese or fruit) and then sautéed or baked |url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blintze |access-date=2015-08-12 |website=Merriam-webster.com}}</ref>

==History== Traditional blintzes are filled with sweetened cheese, sometimes with the addition of raisins, or fruit preserves and then slightly sautéed.<ref name=mw/> They are served on Shavuot.<ref>{{cite web |title=Cheese Blintzes for Shavuot |url=https://motherwouldknow.com/jewish-cheese-blintzes-for-shavuot/ |website=Mother would know |date=30 April 2018 |access-date=20 October 2019}}</ref> The word ''blintz'' in English comes from the Yiddish word {{lang|yi|בלינצע}} or {{Transliteration|yi|blintse}}, coming from a Slavic word ''блинец [blin-yets]'' meaning ''blin'', or pancake.<ref>{{cite web |title=Blintz definition |url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blintze |website=Merriam Webster dictionary |access-date=20 October 2019}}</ref>

Like the knishes, blintzes represent foods that are now considered typically Jewish,{{by whom|date=November 2025|reason=by whom? - definitely not by Germans, Poles, Lithuanians, or Russians}} and exemplify the changes in foods that Jews adopted from their Christian neighbors.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lowenstein |first=Steven M. |title=The Jewish cultural tapestry : international Jewish folk traditions |date=2000 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0-19-515800-8 |location=New York |oclc=80242007}}</ref>

For Passover, matzo meal is used instead of flour.{{citation needed|date=August 2024}}

==See also== {{commonscat|Blintzes}} *Baghrir * The Russian dish ''blinchiki'', literally "little ''blini''" is a more generic dish, with filings of any kind: cottage cheese, preserves, meat, etc. *Naleśniki

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