Ultimate French pancakes

Name: Ultimate French pancakes
Yield: Makes about 10 x 20 cm (8in) pancakes
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: lemon wedges and caster sugar to serve; 1 medium egg; a pinch of salt; 290 ml whole milk, or milk and water mixed; 1 medium egg yolk; 1 tbsp sunflower oil; oil or butter for frying; 110 g plain flour

Preparation info

Makes about
10 x 20 cm
pancakes

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Prue

By Prue Leith

Published 2018

About

A good French pancake should be too thin to toss with ease. When I was at cookery school, our teacher used to say that if we could toss it we should toss it out!

Ingredients

110 g plain flour
a pinch of salt
1 medium egg

Europe
France
Vegetarian
Mediterranean
Breakfast

Method

Put all the ingredients except the fat for frying in a liquidizer or food processor and whizz briefly. (In the absence of a machine, sift the flour with the salt into a bowl and make a well in the centre, exposing the bottom of the bowl. Put the egg and egg yolk, along with a little of the milk, into this well. Using a fork or whisk, mix the egg and milk together, at fir