Basic Crêpes

Some recipes for crêpes suzette call for flavoring the crêpes themselves with orange. This is a silly and needless complication, since no one will notice the delicacy of an orange-flavored crêpe under an intensely flavored orange sauce. I use the same crêpe recipe for both sweet and savory crêpe dishes and most of the time don’t even measure the ingredients. I just break eggs into a bowl—1 egg per 2 servings—add enough flour to make a stiff but smooth paste, and then thin the mixture with e