Chandeleur

[menthe]

This year, it's on Thursday 2 février.

I am just wondering if someone can give me a recipe and instructions on how to make pancakes like the French?

Have asked lots of people and no one has ever given me quantities or how to make other than to say "I use my crèperie".  One women said, just get the batter to the consistency of emulsion paint!

I have more or less given up making them.  I find American pancakes are the easiest to make as you use some bicarb and the pancakes are smaller rounds and puff up nicely.

[menthe]

Correction. Sorry, it's always on 2 fev; I meant to say it's on Thursday.  Our gym session is closed, alas, so no hopes of anyone bringing in a pile of crèpes.

[DaveLister]

Sweet French Pancakes. ( makes around 20 )

30g Buckwheat flour

350g plain flour

100g salted butter ( melted )

110g castor sugar

3 large eggs ( beaten )

1/2 litre milk

a little water

put flour in bowl, hollow out center and add eggs and the sugar. Begin mixing the batter with a little water then gradually add the milk mixing until smooth. Finally beat in the melted butter.

If you like you can also add a small tot of rum to the mix.

[Judith]

Menthe, I think (I've never bothered to make them) they have to be same consistency as the batter for Yorkshire puds, which again I have never been successful at, if you've ever made them.  But obviously cooked differently ...