3 Pancake Recipes from the Renaissance: 1393, 1585, and 1615 | SCA Baking

Pancakes existed as early as the 14th century?!?! Follow along as I make pancakes from a 14th century recipe, along with a 16th century and a 17th century recipe. Which do you think will taste the best?

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For a full list of ingredients and further information, please visit the links below:
https://tudorbaking.blogspot.com/2021/12/pancakes-based-on-1393-french-crespes.html
https://tudorbaking.blogspot.com/2021/12/pancakes-based-on-1585-english-recipe.html
https://tudorbaking.blogspot.com/2021/12/pancakes-based-on-1615-english-recipe.html

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1393 Recipe:
Original Recipe from Le Ménagier de Paris:
Crespes. Prenez de la fleur et destrempez d'œufs tant moyeux comme aubuns osté le germe, et le deffaites d'eaue, et y mettez du sel et du vin, et batez longuement ensemble : puis mettez du sain sur le feu en une petite paelle de fer, ou moitié sain ou moitié beurre frais, et faites fremier; et adonc aiez une escuelle percée d'un pertuis gros comme vostre petit doit, et adonc mettez de celle boulie dedans l'escuelle en commençant ou milieu, et laissiez filer tout autour de la paelle; puis mettez en un plat, et de la pouldre de succre dessus. Et que la paelle dessusdite de fer ou d'arain tiengne trois choppines, et ait le bort demy doy de hault, et soit aussi large ou dessus comme en bas, ne plus ne moins; et pour cause .

Modern Recipe Interpretation:
1 3/4 cup flour
2 eggs
1/2 tsp salt
3/4 cup white wine
1 cup water

butter for the pan (melted)
sugar for the topping (sprinkled on top)

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

1585 Recipe:
Original Recipe from The Good Huswifes Jewell:

To make the pancakes:
Take new thicke Creame a pinte, four of five yolks of Egs, a good handful of flower, and two or three spoonfuls of ale, strain them altogether into a faire platter, and season it with a good handful of Sugar, a sooneful of Synamon and a little Ginger: then takea frying pan, and put in a little peece of Butter, as but as your thombe, and when it is molten browne, cast it out of your pan, and with a ladle put to the furthesr side of your pan some of your stuffe, and hole your pan aslope, so that you stuffe may run abroad all ouer all the pan, as thin as may be: then set it to the fyre, and let the fyre be verie soft, and when the one side is bakes, then turne the other, and bake them as dry as ye can without burning.

Modern Recipe Interpretation:
2 cups cream
4-5 egg yolks
1/2 cup flour
2-3 tsp yeast
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp ginger

butter for the pan (melted)

Mix the ingredients together. Heat the pan on medium low heat.
Yield: 16 large pancakes

1615 Recipe:
Original Recipe:

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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