Golden blini Lacy, yeast-raised pancakes eaten by the stack — round and golden as a tribute to the sun whose return the week celebrates.
- The tradition
- Butter Week sees out the cold before the Lenten fast, a last week of richness, sun-worship and welcome to spring.
- Customs & rituals
- A week of pancake feasts, sledding and snowball fights, closing with the burning of a straw effigy of winter.
- What people wear
- Bundled-up folk colours for a festival still spent out in the snow.
On the table
1 recipe to cook for Maslenitsa.
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