View Single Post
  #7 (permalink)   Report Post  
Posted to rec.food.cooking
Steve Pope Steve Pope is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 8,635
Default Anyone have a good non-100% white flour crepe recipe?

Victor Sack > wrote:

>> Steve Pope wrote:


>> > I don't have a recipe, but crepes for savory dishes are
>> > normally made from buckwheat flour.


>It used to be so, a century or so ago. Nowadays, buckwheat crêpes are
>generally made only in Brittany or at places run by the Bretons, where
>they are called galettes (or crêpes bretonnes, or galettes de
>sarrasin/blé noir). Crêpes, as such, sweet or savoury, are generally
>made with wheat flour now, even in Brittany.


As usual, I am clinging to a view of the world mired in the past.

Thanks for the update.

Steve