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[arian-archer.livejournal.com]

I'm having a very difficult time explaing how to make blini for a class assignment (which is admittedly above the level which we are at right now because we have learned no specific cooking verbs, just готовить).

I would like to know how to say separate an egg, beat an egg, and would жарить work for blini? I don't know that they're really fried... I suppose they are. Also it would be helpful to know how to say melted butter.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Comments

[oryx_and_crake]

Technically блины are prepared on a frying pan but you never say жарить about them - only печь (я пеку, ты печешь, он(а) печет, вы печете, они пекут)

[arian-archer.livejournal.com]

I remember that was a weird past tense for печь as well when the TA for my class was telling us (very briefly) about verbs we could use, but I don't have it written down.

[oryx_and_crake]

я, ты, он пек
она пекла, оно пекло
вы, они пекли

[oryx_and_crake]

p.s. я, ты, он пЁк
the other forms use e (not ё)

[eksel.livejournal.com]

I would say, that "нажарить блинов" could also be herd...
at least, some of my friends, native Russians ;) are telling so...

[oryx_and_crake]

p.s.

separate an egg - отделить белок от желтка (белки от желтков)

beat an egg - взбить яйцо

melted butter - растопленное масло

[arian-archer.livejournal.com]

Thank you very very much.

[salexey.livejournal.com]

топлёное масло

[steel-monster.livejournal.com]

топлёное масло is not just растопленное - http://subscribe.ru/archive/home.eat.culinary/200602/08135902.html

[oryx_and_crake]

Wrong. Топленое масло is a separate product (processed butter), while растопленное масло is an ordinary butter that was melted, and this is in fact what people use for making pancakes.

[salexey.livejournal.com]

Ok. I've just never heard "растопленное масло", my grannies always called it "топленое масло".