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Compiled by Dr. Neil Gale, Ph.D.
Eddie Doucette's Fabulous French Pancake Recipe
This is as close to the original New France (Canada), 18th Century recipe that Eddie Doucette based his restaurants' pancakes on. American colonists called them Peter Cook's Pancakes. I don't know the original French recipe name or how Eddie tweaked it to make it truly his.
This is the batter for their "Apple Yummy" and "Dutch Nannies" pancakes. Their "French Fried" pancakes are the same recipe but cooked on a griddle.
You'll be pleasantly surprised at just how good these pancakes are! Be sure to follow this recipe to the "T" the first time.
INGREDIENTS (applicable to the 1700s time period)
- 1/4 cup butter OR 1/2 stick of Butter
- 1/2 cup Whole Milk (fresh milk; non-pasteurized & non-homogenized)[1]
- 2 large Eggs, refrigerated (fresh eggs at room temperature)
- 1/2 cup all purpose Flour (extra fine stoneground wheat flour)
- 1 Pinch of Nutmeg[2]
- 2 tbsp Powdered Sugar (sifted sugar)[3]
- Juice of 1 Lemon
- Preheat oven to 425° F.
- Mix flour, milk, eggs, and nutmeg together in a mixing bowl.
- Melt butter in a shallow 9-inch pyrex baking dish.
- When butter is boiling and sizzling, pour batter into a buttered dish and put it immediately in the oven.
- Bake for 15 to 20 minutes until lightly browned and very puffy.
- Sprinkle with powdered sugar and lemon juice.
NOTE: If a double recipe is required, bake the 2 pancakes in separate baking dishes. Do not combine in one baking dish because it will not rise properly.
[1] MILK was not a commonly consumed beverage until the 19th century. Even then, it was risky drinking it before pasteurization (heating it to kill bacteria) and homogenization (mixing large quantities together to dilute potential illnesses caused by the cow ingesting poisonous plants; i.e. White Snakeroot [Ageratina altissima] or Milkweed plants). People who drank milk did so as soon as it left the cow or shortly thereafter; they didn't store it as they had no means to inexpensively do so.
[2] NUTMEG - Although today we’re primarily familiar with nutmeg as a powder that comes in little plastic bottles, it’s actually the pit of the fruit of a tree native to the Banda Islands of Indonesia. Throughout the 18th century, the Dutch controlled the Banda Islands, keeping nutmeg scarce and in high demand in international markets. In America, where nutmeg was a popular flavor in 18th and early 19th-century cooking, the spice was costly, so unscrupulous vendors allegedly tried replicating nutmeg with wood.
[3] POWDERED SUGAR - From the 16th century to the 18th century, consumers got their sugar in varying degrees of refinement. Sugar was sold in the form of loaves or cones, and pieces were cut from them using a tool called a sugar cutter. As a result, recipes from this period often included directions for clarifying (of sugar cane juices extracted from sugar canes) and sifted (through a sieve) sugar.
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| An 18th Century Sugar Cutter. |
NOTE: The number followed by an "X" on the package of powdered sugar refers to the number of times it was sifted.
The pancake recipe is much like a "German Pancake" or "Dutch Baby" as served these days at the various Walker Brother pancake houses. The NYT cookbook also has a similar recipe for "David Eyre's Pancake." Whatever you call them, they're delicious and fun to cook. Thanks for the reminder.
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