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"ref": "2013, Jim Plosia, Shawn Plosia, The Shunting Yard: The Umschlagplatz, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse",
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"ref": "2013, Edward R. Rogaishio, You Can Survive and Live a Useful Life: Heart Disease, Cancer, Pemphigoid and a Shotgun, Xlibris, page 252",
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"ref": "2014, Aleksandr Nikolaevich Afanas’ev, edited by Jack V. Haney, The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas’ev, volume I, University Press of Mississippi",
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"ref": "2017, Isa Chandra Moskowitz, Terry Hope Romero, Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook, 10th anniversary edition, Da Capo Press",
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"ref": "1933, Alexandra Tolstoy, translated by Elena Varneck, The Tragedy of Tolstoy, Yale University Press, page 107",
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"ref": "2003, Tatyana Tolstaya, translated by Jamey Gambrell, The Slynx, New York, N.Y.: The New York Review of Books",
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"ref": "2006, Laurie Gwen Shapiro, Brand X: The Boyfriend Account, New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, Random House Children’s Books, page 140",
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"ref": "2011, David Perlstein, Slick!, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, Inc., pages 116–117",
"text": "Medvedev took one of the blini from Bobby’s plate, spooned red caviar onto it, rolled the blin and wolfed it down. “The secret to drinking vodka, my friend, is eating, no?” / Bobby spooned black caviar onto a blin and downed it.",
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"ref": "2013, Kari Ojala, translated by Tarja Dibaja, The Engineer’s Cookbook, Klaava Media",
"text": "Unlike regular pancakes, blins should be fried in a small pancake pan. This is because a good blin is thick and juicy, and this is most easily achieved using a small pan with raised edges. The blins should be fried on both sides and served hot.",
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"ref": "2013, Jim Plosia, Shawn Plosia, The Shunting Yard: The Umschlagplatz, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse",
"text": "“Those blins have a religious origin,” Addie explained. “They are partaken of to commemorate the advent of Spring, and they are round in shape, to represent the sun.[…]” she concluded.",
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"ref": "2013, Edward R. Rogaishio, You Can Survive and Live a Useful Life: Heart Disease, Cancer, Pemphigoid and a Shotgun, Xlibris, page 252",
"text": "Then tea, with his wife Lydia making blins so thin you could almost see through them.",
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"ref": "2014, Aleksandr Nikolaevich Afanas’ev, edited by Jack V. Haney, The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas’ev, volume I, University Press of Mississippi",
"text": "She baked some bliny. “Go, old man, and fetch your daughter for burial.” The old man rode off. The dog under the table barked: “Arf, arf! The old man’s daughter in gold and silver will come, but no groom will have the old woman’s daughter.” “Shut up, you fool! For a blin say: ‘Grooms will take the old woman’s daughter, but they’ll bring in just the bones of the old man’s daughter!’” The dog ate the blin and once more said, […]",
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"ref": "2017, Isa Chandra Moskowitz, Terry Hope Romero, Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook, 10th anniversary edition, Da Capo Press",
"text": "The tops of the blini should bubble up and set within 90 seconds (if they do not, then either the heat is not high enough or the pan hasn’t had time to heat up properly). Flip each blin and cook for another 90 seconds.",
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"ref": "2023, Bryn Turnbull, The Paris Deception, Toronto, Ont.: Mira",
"text": "“More so,” Richter replied as the waiter returned with a plate of blini topped with glistening caviar. […] She took a blin and crammed it into her mouth: the taste was overwhelming and salty, not at all what she’d expected, and not to her taste.",
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