Quire of Paper Pancakes

The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New ... · Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady · 1840

Source: The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory;: In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed.
Yield: 20.0 pancakes
Status: success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (8)

a pint of cream ↝ Cream, whipped [Cream cheese, sour cream, whipped cream]
eight eggs, leaving out two whites ↝ Eggs, Grade A, Large, egg whole [Dairy and Egg Products]
three spoonfuls of fine flour ↝ Flour, semolina, fine [Cereal Grains and Pasta]
three of sack
one of orange-flower water
a little sugar ↝ Sugar, NFS [Sugars and honey]
a grated nutmeg ↝ Oil, nutmeg butter [Fats and Oils]
a quarter of a pound of butter melted in the cream ↝ Butter, stick, unsalted [Dairy and Egg Products]

Instructions (4)

Mix a little of the cream with flour, and so proceed by degrees that it may be smooth.
Beat all well together.
Butter the pan for the first pancake, and let them run as thin as possible to be whole.
When one side is coloured, it is enough; take them carefully out of the pan, lay them as even on each other as possible; and keep them near the fire till they are all fried.

Original Text

Quire of Paper Pancakes.

Take to a pint of cream eight eggs, leaving out two whites, three spoonfuls of fine flour, three of sack, one of orange-flower water, a little sugar, a grated nutmeg, a quarter of a pound of butter melted in the cream. Mix a little of the cream with flour, and so proceed by degrees that it may be smooth: then beat all well together. Butter the pan for the first pancake, and let them run as thin as possible to be whole. When one side is coloured, it is enough; take them carefully out of the pan, lay them as even on each other as possible; and keep them near the fire till they are all fried. The quantity here given makes twenty.

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