Crepes

This recipe takes me back to a time when weekends were slow and uneventful, when having company for tea time meant baking something delightfully rich in flavor as well as in nutrients and more so do it easily and fast because children are suddenly hungry.

Dough:

• 250gr flour
• 7.5 dl milk
• 6 eggs
• 6 tb. sp. sugar
• butter to fry

Suggestions for filling:

• melted chocolate
• marmalade
• lemon juice and honey
• honey and nuts or almonds
• banana, cinnamon and maple syrup
• plain chocolate and cinnamon because the dough already tastes so good it is a petty to not try it simple

Put all the ingredients in a blender and then let it rest from 5 to 10min. We never did wait, which meant the first crepes were flatter and drier than those after 5 min, but they tasted amazing even so. Then use a large flat frying pan melt enough butter on it so that tilting the pan one side and then the others you can make the butter slide and touch all the pan's surface. If you can do this without getting burned it is easiest to use a kitchen paper to spread the butter. Then use a soup ladle to dose the amount of dough you add to the pan and once again tilt the pan until the surface is covered by a thin layer of dough and let it fry until the dough lifts in bubbles. It is ready to turn with the help of spatula or with some training you can flip it with a push to the pan.

Since this dough has so many eggs and milk and most of all frying and eating it takes time, this recipe was a combination of tea time and dinner for the family. Usually this was followed by soup to introduce all the missing veggies, the kids (including me) would promise to eat the soup in exchange for this gorgeous starter that kept us all around the stove for 1 to 2 hours.