Julee Rosso, Sheila Lukins

Barry Wine’s Beggar’s Purses

Preparation info

  • 12

    portions
    • Difficulty

      Complex

Appears in
top 1000The New Basics Cookbook
The New Basics Cookbook

By Sheila Lukins and Julee Rosso

Published 1989

  • About

Barry and Susan Wine have one of the most stunning restaurants in the country, New York’s Quilted Giraffe. The food is always superb; the ideas behind the food, always brilliant. These Beggar’s Purses, bursting with beluga caviar, are simply delicious.

Ingredients

Crepes

  • 1½ cups milk
  • 4 eggs
  • 1⅛ cups pastry or unbleached all-pur

Method

  1. Combine the milk, eggs, pastry flour, and salt in a mixing bowl. Whisk well, and then pour through a fine-mesh sieve into another bowl. Just before you cook the crepes, add 1 tablespoon of the clarified butter to the batter, and stir it in well.
  2. Heat a crepe pan over medium-high heat until very hot. Lower the heat to medium. Brush the pan with a little of the m