Crepes A La Gelee Recipe - Cooking Index
A specialty of Antoines in New Orleans, with minor changes by Graham Kerr.
Courses: Dessert| 4 oz | 113g | Flour - sifted |
| 1 | Egg | |
| 1 | Egg yolk | |
| 1 1/8 cups | 266ml | Milk |
| 2 tablespoons | 30ml | Red currant jelly |
| 1/4 cup | 59ml | Port wine |
| 1/2 | Gelatine - (1 tspn) | |
| 2 tablespoons | 30ml | Salted butter |
| 2 teaspoons | 10ml | Powdered sugar |
Place flour in bowl and add egg and egg yolk. Whisk in milk. Beat until it is a thin cream and set aside for 4 hours.
Melt jelly over low heat. Mix port and gelatin in a separate bowl and add to jelly. Remove from heat and cool.
Melt butter in crepe pan on medium-high heat and add this to the pancake batter. Whisk thoroughly. Pour a thin layer of batter into pan and let cook until top layer becomes waxy. When pancake is lightly browned on bottom, flip it to cook other side.
Transfer to a warm plate, second cooked-side up, and repeat with remaining batter. Top crepes with 1 tablespoon of jelly filling. Roll up and dust with powdered sugar.
This recipe yields 2 servings.
Source:
THE GALLOPING GOURMET with Graham Kerr - (Show # GA-0169) - from the - TV FOOD NETWORK
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