Recipes - Mamie's Crepes

 

When I was growing up, Mamie would have what was called pancake dinners.  These were on days such as New Year's Day or Pancake Tuesday and I am pretty sure there were other times too.  They were her crepes not just regular pancakes.  She would start making them after lunch and keeping them warm would make them until the plate was nearly a good 6 inches tall filled with them.  

The table would be set with every possible thing that could go on pancakes, all the jams that she made, maple syrup, brown sugar, icing sugar, lemon, butter and I would want to have one of everything on my crepes.  I knew that my stomach wouldn't allow me to have more than three, so I would layer jam, brown sugar and maple syrup with butter on each one.  Yup, pretty sweet combo but I needed to go for the maximum amount of stuff.  I would cut all the way along the pancake and then roll up the piece, it got tough to do in the middle but I was pretty determined and that would be when my cheeks would be completely stuffed.  Mamie's crepes would be the stuff of dreams and I couldn't wait until she would announce that it was time for a pancake dinner.  

2 cups milk approx. (use a heavier milk such as 2% or homogenized milk, thinner milk is not as good)

1 tbsp sugar

2 eggs (large)

1 cup flour

1 tsp baking powder

Pinch of salt

Sift the flour, salt and baking powder. Add well beaten eggs and sugar. Mix all with milk until the desired consistency (which for the crepes is fairly thin). Put a small pat of butter in hot frying pan then add batter in spoonfuls. One fills a medium-sized fry pan. Cook both sides to desired golden brown. Serve with powdered sugar and a squeeze of lemon, or syrup, or jam, or brown sugar and combinations thereof.

This recipe would make a stack as big as you see above, Mamie's stack was huge and would be at least 4x's the amount of ingredients.  I seemed to remember an empty carton of eggs in the garbage can.  Knowing how tricky crepes are to work with and how long it takes me to do one batch, I know she was way more patient that I am ever going to be.  

Mamie 

Have a great day!