Welcome Spring - Maslenitsa

[pulstar]

Why is it callled Maslenitsa? I see no masline there.

[KirillMazur]

Why is it callled Maslenitsa? I see no masline there.

In the word "Maslenitsa" butter (maslo in Russian) is the root part of the word, as a necessary ingredient for baking and eating pancakes, which gave its name to the holiday.
But this explanation for ordinary people who do not dig deep into East Slavic paganism, in fact, the explanation is a little more complicated.
Happy Maslenitsa!

[Alla Zima]

[pulstar]

In the word "Maslenitsa" butter (maslo in Russian) is the root part of the word, as a necessary ingredient for baking and eating pancakes, which gave its name to the holiday.
But this explanation for ordinary people who do not dig deep into East Slavic paganism, in fact, the explanation is a little more complicated.
Happy Maslenitsa!

I was just joking. I've figured it out it has to be connected to butter (we call it maslac).

[Salty Ears]

Why is it callled Maslenitsa? I see no masline there.

filling for pancakes with black olives, feta and tomatoes is quite popular



popularity of search queries for cooking of pancakes, which are out of the average by regions

West, North-West:
Kaliningrad - vegan; St. Petersburg - with cabbage, Cherepovets - with ham and cheese, Arkhangelsk - on prostokvasha (soured milk)

Central:
Moscow - on coconut milk, Ryazan - from semolina, Voronezh - on yeast

Middle Volga:
Nizhny Novgorod - on baked milk, Kazan - on ryazhenka (soured baked milk?), Samara - on soured milk, Saratov - on yeast

Southern:
Rostov-na-Donu - with red caviar, Volgograd - with sturgeon or salmon, Astrakhan - with cabbadge, Stavropol - on narzan (mineral water), Sevastopol - with fish, Krasnodar - coloured

North Caucaus:
Vladikavkaz - on matzoon (fermented milk product), Makhachkala - on whey

Ural:
Perm - with ham and cheese, Ekaterinburg - with meat and rice, Ufa - from semolina, Chelyabinsk - on baked milk

Siberia:
Tuymen - vegan, Omsk - with apple and cinnamon, Novosibirsk - on eggs, Tomsk - with chicken breast, Krasnoyarsk - with meat and rice, Irkutsk - on whey, Ulan-Ude - on snezhok (sweet yogurt)

Far East:
Khabarovsk and Vladivostok - on whey

[Salty Ears]

Smolensk 2020



Lenin look scared at this photo (dont be worry "ilyich", your spring still didnt come)