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This recipe is 2:2:3 flour to butter to heavy cream! I don’t think I’ve ever seen a pancakes recipe with this much fat. Was this typical for British cooking at

• jfengel 5y ago
  That was my thought as well. That's very, very rich. But not uncommon. Hannah Glasse's recipe is similar: https://www.mountvernon.org/inn/recipes/article/paper-pancakes/ https://www.mountvernon.org/inn/recipes/article/paper-pancak... I wish I could dig up the original quote, but I loved a story from a cookbook owned by Martha Washington, for eggs poached in butter. Paraphrased: "The profligate French use four pounds of butter, but we frugal Americans use only one pound of butter." They ate a lot of fat, when they could get it. The sort of people who couldn't get it also didn't write cookbooks. Or use so much of an expensive imported spice.