French Pancakes

"these are like little crepes - and kids love their delicate texture! My 25 year old daughter still makes these - she called them "special pancakes" when she was little - heating the milk and melting the butter makes All The Difference in how tender this dough is!"
 
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Ready In:
30mins
Ingredients:
6
Serves:
3-4
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ingredients

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directions

  • Heat together milk and butter in a saucepan on medium low heat until butter is melted.
  • Remove from burner and let cool slightly.
  • Add 2 eggs.
  • Blend dry ingredients and add.
  • Spoon out into melted butter in a hot skillet or griddle.
  • Turn very quickly - AS SOON AS bubbles form on top; these should be only lightly brown.
  • the first 2 or 3 usually don't come out the best -.
  • serve with real maple syrup or maple sugar - or with just plain sugar.
  • you can substitute 1/4 tsp of lemon juice if you don't have baking powder on hand.
  • you can pour 1/4 cup of batter into a non-stick pan, coat the bottom, and then flip quickly [remembering that it is better to undercook these for delicacy and maximum tenderness] - if your flip isn't perfect, these are Just As Good if they are crumpled up.

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Reviews

  1. These combine the tenderness of crepes with the satisfying fluffiness of American pancakes. They are not quite as delicate as classic thin crepes, but they have a soft appeal of their own. They cook incredibly fast. I made a half recipe, and I think I had a plateful of pancakes in about 5 minutes. I ate them with a bit of extra butter, and a dusting of sugar.
     
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56, an Army brat who has lived in 20 different locations [born in germany, went to kindergarten in japan] including new york city, palo alto CA, maine, georgia, chicago, after growing up in small-town kansas... have some fabulous recipes from well-traveled army people... recently started adding just a splash of bourbon or brandy to real maple syrup - and it really gives french toast or pancakes a special, more sophisticated flavor... a friend jokes that bourbon is my new "secret ingredient" that i'll be adding to everything - it's not true but i'm telling you - you should try it! it's really very good [for adults, anyway] sugarpea's apple pancake recipe is a deadringer for Walker Brothers Pancake House in north shore Chicago - i've searchd for this for 34 years - and it's easy as well as To Die For!!! the Dutch Baby pancake is a huge seller there too - with the same gooey comfort-food but elegant batter... also if you search for lettuce wrap - the 2 recipes for PF Chang's come up... this is also SO GOOD, truly a memorable entree... for cookbooks: With a Jug of Wine, More Recipes With a Jug of Wine were written by the San Francisco Chronicle food writer decades ago - and most everything in them is superb - and i learned a lot as a new cook, young wife, from reading through them in the late 1970s... i got a [very French] sense of food as a way of life
 
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