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February 2, 2010 By Cyn Gagen 4 Comments

Crepes for Candelmas Day

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Crepes are a traditional food for Candelmas Day in many countries; thus this is National Crepe Day. Here’s an easy crepe recipe.

Ingredients:

1 cup flour

2 eggs

½ cup milk

½ cup water

¼ tsp salt

2 T. butter, melted

Instructions: Whisk together the flour and eggs. Mix in he milk and water. Add salt and melted butter and beat this mixture until smooth. Heat a bit of oil in a skillet over medium high heat. Pour about ¼ cup of batter out for each crepe (unlike with pancakes where you can put several into the pan at the same time, you only want to make one crepe at a time). Tilt and turn the skillet in a circular motion so that a thin layer of batter covers and coats it evenly. A crepe will need about 2 minutes on the first side to cook and should come out lightly browned. Flip it over and cook on the second side – this will take only 30 seconds or so. Put on a plate and fill as desired.

Fillings can be as simple as things like ricotta cheese, berries (fresh or cooked with a bit of sugar and water to create some syrup), peaches, pears, pineapple (these can be fresh ones that have simply been cut up, canned ones warmed up and served with their juices/syrup, or fresh that like the berries, have been cooked with a little sugar/water to make a syrup for them), cooked apples, and much more. The addition of some nuts like slivered almonds or chopped walnuts can also be very nice and some powdered sugar sprinkled over the filled crepes is also delicious. Crepes don’t have to always be filled with sweet fillings though. They are a great way to use up leftovers like cooked chicken, turkey, or ham that has been cut up and cut up pieces of vegetables such as broccoli, carrots, and zucchini. Some cheese sauce over the top of these adds a nice touch.

For more information on Candelmas Day, see my post at my other blog Cyn’s Reality: http://cynsreality.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/candelmasgroundhog-day/

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  1. Lori says

    February 3, 2010 at 2:07 pm

    I can’t make a crepe to save my life. I will have to try this one.

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  2. Lori says

    February 3, 2010 at 7:19 pm

    PS: I recently watched a No Reservations with Anthony Bourdain episodes featuring Brittany. Tony ate a crepe filled with ground mackeral.

    Yeah….right.

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  3. Lori says

    February 5, 2010 at 4:03 am

    I just made some of these. I cut the recipe in half and got three small crepes out of it. The first one I messed up but the other two were perfect. I made a filling of frozen berries that I nuked, then added some Splenda and couple of drops of orange extract. Then I put a dollop of Greek yogurt on the top. YUMMMOH.

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  4. cydlee61 says

    February 5, 2010 at 4:08 am

    ohhhh that sounds delicious…my fave was always crepes with strawberries but now I go into anaphylactic shock from them so I use raspberries or peaches now…I used to have an actual crepe pan and that made making them so much easier but I haven’t seen one of those in years…have you ever seen one? It looks like an upside down skillet – so instead of pouring batter you dip what would normally look like the bottom of the skillet into the batter and then place it on the burner

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