Versatile Buckwheat Crêpes From Elisabeth Prueitt | Break an Egg | Food52

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Buckwheat Crêpes From Elisabeth Prueitt:
“Few foods are more reflective of place than buckwheat crêpes-properly called galettes-from Brittany, France,” Liz Prueitt writes in Tartine All Day. They’re traditionally served with savory ingredients, but Liz rightly recommends pairing these incredibly adaptable, gluten-free crêpes with sweet fillings, too, as our food stylist Anna Billingskog did in a recent episode of Break an Egg. (She topped hers with whipped cream and fresh raspberries.)
Liz strongly suggests resting the batter overnight, or for at least 2 hours, which will help produce more tender crêpes and strip the buckwheat of its bitterness. Your well-rested batter should spread readily in the pan and be “thinner than a pancake batter and similar to heavy cream.” If it is too thick, try thinning it a splash of water or milk.
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As a Brittany girl where crêpes come from I thought I would make a few comments: In Finistère (southern Brittany) a crêpe can be sweet (wheat flour) or savoury (buckwheat flour) but it has to be extra thin! A galette is made from buckwheat flour but is thicker (famous with sausage in Ille & Vilaine, another part of Brittany/Rennes). Traditional galettes don't have eggs in them; Your pan was way too small and your crêpe far too thick...it looked to me like an American pancake! Good try !

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I own a small crepe catering biz in Dallas, and I’m not sure why they use an incorrect batter and completely wrong pan? As the local expert said, the batter has no eggs, I only use water, buckwheat and sea salt. And a very hot crepe griddle, with a proper spreader will help to create the thin galette and beautiful lattice patterns.

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