User:Женя Логинов/(Zhenya Loginov)/Drochena

Drochena (Russian: дрочена, also драчона, драчена, драчёна, дарачена, драченка or pl. драченики ) is a traditional dish in Russian and Belarusian cuisine. Made from dough based on a large number of eggs with milk (sometimes soured milk), flour or groat. Grated potatoes can be added too. There are two kinds of drochena: a kind of an omelette or a harder one, with more flour like a flatbread or a pancake. According to Vladimir Dal’s “Explanatory Dictionary”, there was also a recipe of drochena with some caviar mixed in dough ; Ivan Zabelin mentions a drochena baked with poppy seed milk ; Maxim Syrnikov asserts that there is a mention of an almond drochena in the archive of Prince Kurakin.

Like blini a drochena had a ritual meaning in the past: on the days of anniversary of deceased family members it was brought to the cemetery. The tradition to eat some drochena at a commemoration ceremony is preserved in some parts of Russia among Orthodox Christians.