Crêpe Recipe:

You're about to discover one of the best well-kept secret in French Gastronomie: The Crêpe Batter Recipe !

To do about 25 crêpes:

2-lbs. white unbleached sifted flour

6 eggs

¼ quart/gallon?? milk

A pinch of salt

2 soup spoons of granulated sugar

Necessary tools:

Egg beater - Frying pan - spatula - ladle.

Add the eggs to the flour with salt and sugar and slowly incorporate the milk using your egg beater. Watch not to have any lumps. Now, here is the secret no recipe book would tell you! To reach the right consistency (about the same as oil), add water... that's the secret! Let it sit for a minimum of 4hrs in a cool temperature.

Now come the fun part! Preheat your pan so that the butter starts to make a little noise Wipe the excess butter with a paper towel, add a small ladle of batter in the center, lift the pan off the stove, make circular movements with your hand so that batter spreads evenly. Remove the excess and place the pan back on the stove.

And here's the artistic part. Flip the crêpe over (genuine French crêpes are always cooked both sides). Put in your fillings and gently roll your crêpe with your spatula.

A photo presentation on how to make crêpes:

	The crêpe stove (or crêpe pan) Availability, Seasoning, etc
	Once the griddle has been brushed with butter (seen in the lower left), the batter is poured on with a ladel and spun flat to the edges with a wooden flat 'rake'.
	The crêpe must be flipped over very quickly. This is done using a thin, flat steel spatula which is slid between the crêpe and the pan, breaking the crêpe free of the pan so that it does not rip or tear.
	Fillings for a crêpe include jack, chedder, or swiss cheese. Ham, chicken, tomatos, cooked spinish, fresh brockley, tomatos, onions, etc. Dessert crêpes may be filled with bananna and chocolate or berry perserves.. The aluminum foil is used to cover crêpes ordered 'to go'.
	Here the fillings are ham and mushrooms on a bed of cheese.
	For large crêpes, 2 sides are folded in and then the ends are folded over, forming a square crêpe.
	Smaller crêpes can be folded on a veriety of creative ways.
	Dessert crêpes
Click here to see a video of how to build a crêpe!
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