crempog/ffroes

Name: Crempog/Ffroes
Prep time: 40 min
Cook time: 15 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: UK/Ireland
Ingredients: 2 ounce(s) butter (55 grams); 15 ounce(s) warm buttermilk (450 ml); 10 ounce(s) unbleached white flour (275 grams); 3 ounce(s) granulated sugar (75 grams); 1 teaspoon(s) baking soda; 1/4-1/2 teaspoon(s) salt; 1 tablespoon(s) white vinegar; 2 - eggs

review

Private Recipe by

C G

@Celestina9000

Vallèe du Willamette, OR

"... Welsh crempog (aka Ffroes) differ from the British/French crepe. More like the American pancake- bigger than the Scotch pancake, crempog can be made with or with out yeast, with buttermilk, oats or speckled with raisins or currants. Traditionally, they are made from self-raising/rising flour, salt, eggs, milk and butter. Often stacked in a pile and smothered with butter, the stack can be sliced like a wedge of cake and eaten as a teatime treat." From visitwales.com

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yield 6 (estimating)

prep time 40 Min

cook time 15 Min

method Griddle

Ingredients For crempog/ffroes

2 oz

butter (55 grams)
15 oz

warm buttermilk (450 ml)
10 oz

unbleached white flour (275 grams)
3 oz

granulated sugar (75 grams)
1 tsp

baking soda
1/4-1/2 tsp

salt
1 Tbsp

white vinegar
2

eggs

How To Make crempog/ffroes

1
Gently warm the butter and buttermilk. Combine the buttermilk with the flour; beating well. Set aside for at least 30 minutes or several hours preferably. (I prepared the batter the night before.)

2
Once the batter has sat for at least 30 minutes, stir in the granulated sugar, baking soda, salt, white vinegar and the beaten eggs. Beat until smooth.
3
Heavily grease a griddle or similar and heat to medium. Drop the batter, a tablespoon (2 tablespoons with the test recipe) at a time onto the hot griddle and cook until golden brown on both sides. Repeat, keeping the cooked crempog warm. We served our crempog with butter and several varieties of jam.
4
"Crempogs are traditionally eaten on Shrove Tuesday, though they're great to eat all year round! There are many customs attached to Shrove Tuesday in Wales, involving kicking cans up and down streets, door-to-door begging for flour and and cheeky songs and verses. They would have been cooked on a cast iron bakestone (or ‘planc’), but frying pans work fine, too!"
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