Shrove Tuesday Crêpes

Name: Shrove Tuesday Crêpes
Ingredients: ⅔ cup/100 g all-purpose flour; ½ cup/125 g light brown sugar; 1 stick/100 g unsalted butter; 2 large eggs; 125 cup/125 ml tepid milk; Pinch salt; 1 tablespoon dark rum; Grated zest of 1 lime; Whipping cream, lime juice, sugar, rum; Whipping cream, lime juice, sugar, rum; Whipping cream, lime juice, sugar, rum; Whipping cream, lime juice, sugar, rum

Preparation info

Serves
4-6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Sacred Food

By Elisabeth Luard

Published 2001

About

Pancakes, crêpes, the universal resurrection food, being round, sunny, and made with lavish amounts of eggs. Eat and be thankful on the last day before the beginning of Lent. This version is from the sunny Caribbean, hence the rum and lime.

Ingredients

⅔ cup/100 g all-purpose flour
½ cup/125

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Mix the flour with the sugar in a bowl.
Gently melt the butter and work It into the mixture along with the eggs, lightly beaten. Work in the tepid milk and salt to make a batter the consistency of heavy cream. It’s hard to be precise about the quantities, but bear in mind that the crêpe mixture should only run if you tilt it sidewise in the pan. There is no nee