Crepes
(Submitted by Mimi Tirone)
Serves 4 people (=12 crepes)
Ingredients:
• Finest wheat flour (5 big tablespoonfuls)
• 2 eggs
• 2 1/2 glasses of milk
• butter 40g (1 oz=28g--> 1,5 approx)
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
1.   In a bowl, put the flour and the salt. Put the 2 eggs (i personally add one more yellow of an egg) and mix with a wooden spoon till the pastry is very smooth. Melt the butter and add it, add the milk slowly while keeping mixing. You can add in the batter half a tsp of orange flavor, or any alcohol.
2.   Let this preparation rest in the fridge for at least over night.
3.   Mix the batter again, in adding a little more milk (half a glass is enough). In a very hot large frying pan (a special flat frying pan is best), pour a small quanity of batter and spread it. You must have a very thin crepe, no more thick than a piece of of cloth. When the batter unsticks, you return the crepe and cook the other side.
The easist way to eat them is to simply put sugar on the crepe. But you can put anything you want instead of sugar, marmalade, chocolate, compote  etc...

 

Crepes a l'orange
 
 

Take already made crepes, put alot of sugar on them and fold them in 4. Put them in the frying pan over slow heat (you can put 4 at once) for a few mintues on both sides and put them on a hot plate. for 8 crepes, take the juice of 2 oranges and put it into the frying pan with 2 tablespoonfuls of sugar. Mix with a wooden spoon till it comes to a boil, and pour on the crepes. To be served hot.  You can add rum to the orange juice, it's very tasty.
 

Traditions about crepes on the "Chandeleur" day (2 of February, but many people do this on the first Sunday of  February) It celebrates the day Jesus was presented in the temple, 40 days after his birth. To cook pancakes was a Roman tradition honoring Proserpine ( I don't know the corresonding word in english- she is Pluto's wife and Queen of the Underworld). Catholics assimilated many of the ancient Gallic or Roman tarditional celebrations.  The day we eat crepes, we have to keep in hand a gold coin (in some areas, it's  a silver coin and now it's a simple normal coin) while tossing a crepe, it's suppose to bring money for the whole year. Crepes are best with fine bottled cider or champagne.