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Pancakes (french)

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France

Known as a French recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

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Ingredients 9 ingredients

  1. Bitter almonds
  2. three ounces of sugar
  3. two ounces of butter
  4. a pint of cream
  5. Water
  6. five very fresh eggs
  7. two ounces of fine flour
  8. Salt
  9. a glass of milk
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Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Hot oil. Never put water on an oil fire: turn off the heat and cover the pan with a lid or a damp tea towel. Pat food dry before it goes into hot oil, and lower it in gently, away from you.

Method

  1. Put into a stewpan or basin two ounces of fine flour, three ounces of sugar, a few macaroons of bitter almonds pounded, a tea-spoonful of orange-flower water, a little salt, a pint of cream, a glass of milk, and the yolks of five very fresh eggs ;
  2. mix the whole well ;
  3. then clarify two ounces of butter, and put some into the frying-pan ;
  4. put a very little mixture into the pan at a time;
  5. let it be done on one side only ;
  6. turn the first one on the bottom of a plate, and do the same alternately with the others ;
  7. arrange them in an agreeable form, and when you are about finishing, glaze the last with fine sugar, and salamander it;
  8. put the plate on a dish, and send up very hot.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Frying pan
  • Spatula