CRêPES WITH ORANGE BUTTER SAUCE
Ingredients
- 125g/4½oz plain flour
- 15g/½oz caster sugar
- pinch salt
- 2 medium free-range eggs
- 325ml/11½fl oz milk
- 50ml/1¾fl oz double cream
- few drops orange flower water
- 20g/¾oz clarified butter
- 10 oranges
- 6 juiced
- 4 segmented
- 100g/3½oz icing sugar
- 125g/4½oz butter
- diced
- softened
- 4 sprigs fresh mint
Directions
- For the crêpes
- whisk the flour
- sugar
- salt
- eggs and a third of the milk in a bowl to a smooth batter.
- Gradually stir in the rest of the the milk and all of the cream. Leave the batter to rest in a warm place for about an hour.
- Just before cooking
- stir in the orange flower water.
- Brush a small 18cm-20cm/7in-8in frying pan with a little of the clarified butter and place over a medium heat. Add a ladleful of the batter and tilt the pan to cover the base thinly; cook the crêpe for a minute each side.
- Transfer the crêpe to a plate and repeat
- stacking the crêpes between sheets of greaseproof paper
- until all of the batter has been used up.
- For the orange butter sauce
- strain the orange juice through a sieve into a saucepan and add the icing sugar.
- Gradually bring the mixture to the boil and cook until the volume of liquid has reduced by half.
- Turn off the heat and whisk in the butter
- a little at a time.
- To serve
- scatter the orange segments over each crêpe and roll up. Spoon over the orange sauce and garnish with a sprig of mint.

