Pancakes based on 1615 English Recipe from The English Huswife by Gervase Markham

Original Recipe:

The best Pancakes

To make the best Pancakes, take two or three Eggs, and break them into a dish, and beat them well; then add unto them a pretty quantity of fair running Water, and beat all well together: then put in Cloves, Mace, Cinnamon and Nutmeg, and season it with Salt; which done, make it as thick as you think good with fine Wheat-flower, then fry the Cakes as thin as may be with sweet butter, or sweet seam, and make them brown, and so serve them up with Sugar, strewed upon them. There be some which mix Pancakes with new Milk or Cream, but that makes them tough, cloying, and not so crisp, pleasant and savory as running water.


Modern Recipe Interpretation:

2 eggs
1 1/2 cup water
1/4 tsp ground clove
1/4 tsp ground mace
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp salt
2 cups flour

butter for the pan (melted)
sugar (for sprinkling on top)

Mix the ingredients together. Heat the pan on medium low heat. Yield: 12 pancakes

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Works Cited:

Markham, Gervase. The English Huswife. http://www.foodsofengland.co.uk/book%201615%20huswife.htm. 13 March 2020.