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Questions tagged [crepe]

A french style pancake.

A crêpe is a type of French pancake that is usually very thin and can be either sweet or savoury. It is sometimes served with fruit or sugar.

An English style pancake is quite similar to a crêpe, but an American style pancake should use the tag pancake instead.

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Why are savory crepes from some restaurants brown?

I've gotten savory crepes made with a darker batter than sweet crepes. What ingredients/cooking technique produce this?
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How to make crispy crepes?

I make very thin crepes using batter made of 500 grams of flour, 3 eggs and 250 ml of milk. They turn out thin, soft and pliable. My wife on the other hand remembers fondly her mothers crepes, which used to be a bit thicker and had a bit of…
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Crepes sliding off crepe maker base

I recently made crepes with a crepe maker like this one. The first half of the recipe worked perfectly. Then, every time I dipped the base into the batter, when I removed it, the half cooked crepe would slide off into the pan of wet batter. Any…
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Making buckwheat crepes buckwheatier

I want to make "real" crêpes au sarrasin. I tried twice, but the result does not have as strong buckwheat taste as the ones I tasted in France. I am at loss since it appears impossible to increase the concentration of the buckwheat flour any…
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Tools used to spread oil for crêpes

Making crêpes on teflon-coated cookware makes it possible to fold the fat (butter, ..) inside the mixture, and to use no fat while cooking. But some may want to avoid teflon, perhaps for health reasons, perhaps because they're partial to cast iron,…
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How to optimize the order of ingredients for crêpes batter?

I am French and I make every Sunday crêpes for breakfast. The crêpes are great (I am told :)) but I rarely manage to get a homogenous batter. First, the batter (NSFW :)) The clumps are not simply flour-based, my guess is that this is the butter…
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