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French Crepe Recipe

Easy, Traditional French Crepe Recipes, Including Croute Au Madere

You will want to try an authentic French crepe recipe if you love crepes, and I'm almost certain you do. Doesn't everyone?

These traditional French pancake recipes are quite easy to make, and the delicate crepes taste Old-World delicious. Eat them anytime for a dessert or as a fun meal on their own.

There is even a recipe from the imperial kitchens of Napoleon III for making an authentic French toast with flavored Madeira sauce, or rum. Perfect for brunch or as a very special treat anytime. Dine like an emperor!

French Crepe Recipe

This French pancake recipe is taken from one of Mom's old recipe scrapbooks, circa 1929.

3 eggs (yolks), 1 cup milk, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon sugar, 1/2 cup flour. Mix yolks, milk, salt, sugar, and pour one-third of the mixture on 1/2 cup flour and stir to a smooth paste; then add the remainder of the mixture and beat well. To this add 1/2 teaspoon of salad oil. Pour enough of the batter into a hot-buttered frying pan to just cover the pan. When brown, turn and brown the other side. Spread with butter and jelly, roll up and sprinkle with powdered sugar.

French Crepe Recipe

This traditional recipe for French crepes is taken from "The Book Of Household Management" by Mrs. Isabella Beeton, published by the author in 1861.

Ingredients: 2 eggs, 2 oz of butter, 2 oz of sifted sugar, 2 oz of flour, 1/2 pint of new milk.

Mode: Beat the eggs thoroughly, and put them into a basin with the butter, which should be beaten to a cream; stir in the sugar and flour, and when these ingredients are well mixed, add the milk; keep stirring and beating the mixture for a few minutes; put it on buttered plates, and bake in a quick oven for 20 minutes. Serve with a cut lemon and sifted sugar, or pile the pancakes high on a dish, with a layer of preserve or marmalade between each. Sufficient for 3 or 4 persons.

Croute au Madere

This sophisticated French toast recipe is taken from the book "La Cuisine Francaise" by Francois Tanty, late Chef de Cuisine of the Emperor Napoleon III and of the Imperial Family of Russia, published by Baldwin, Ross & Co., Chicago, in 1893.

An authentic recipe for French Toast with Madeira Sauce or Rum. Enjoy French toast fit for royalty, and it’s so easily made. Mmmm... this tastes so good!

1/2 pound bread, 3 tablespoonfuls butter, 2 glassfuls apricot sauce, 1/2 glassful rum or 1 glassful Madeira. Preparation: Slice the bread, fry it in butter, arrange the slices in a crown on a dish and when ready to serve pour over a sauce made as follows: Mix 2 glassfuls apricot sauce with 1 glassful madeira or 1/2 glassful rum. Proportions for five persons.

Choose a traditional French crepe recipe and make some delicious crepes today for your brunch or supper. They will make your day seem extra special.

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