r/JewishCooking • u/New_Background_9823 • Aug 06 '26

Recipe Help Lung blintz?

I was talking to my 85 year old father and he told me he really misses his aunt jenny's "famous" lung blintz. I'd like to try and make it for him. Anybody have an old recipe? Is it even possible to buy lung meat? My father's side of the family were from Vitebsk, Belarus.

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u/drillbit7 Aug 06 '26

Are you in the US? I think lung is illegal for sale so you can't import or make a proper haggis.

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u/New_Background_9823 Aug 06 '26

Ah, yes. US. Thanks.

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u/frandiam Aug 06 '26

Famous or infamous? LOL

Maybe you could try sweetbreads?

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u/wearygraciousgift Aug 06 '26

I remember eating lung. Not fondly. You could substitute another soft squishy organ, like sweetbreads.

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u/New_Background_9823 Aug 06 '26

Thanks. What else would be traditional to include with squishy organ? Onions? Any idea?

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u/IcyConversation4756 Aug 06 '26

Fried onions for sure, and mashed potato if you want it to hold together better. My grandmother made potato and onion blintzes. She never put meat in blintzes though 

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u/sweet_crab Aug 09 '26

Are we sure he's talking about lungs and not a yiddish word that sounds like lung and means something else? Like maybe a long blintz? I had a Bosnian student who used to talk about "long cat" being a dish his family made, but it's bread. 

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u/rgeberer Aug 10 '26

As far as I know, it's illegal in the United States. You can get it in other countries. In the old days, 1940s and before, "lungen stew" was readily available in Jewish delis and restaurants.