Pancakes with tansy (“raatvaar” or “boerenwormkruid”). A recipe from Clairette Serneels, grandmother of countless children who, thanks to her, were able to go on holiday with the youth movement to Kabouterland. Clairette picked the tansy along the railway only in spring, because otherwise it is poisonous.
ingredients for 60 pancakes.
- 250 g tansy
- 10 eggs
- 2 packets of fresh yeast (42 grams each)
- 1 sugar cube
- 100 cl milk
- 1 kg pastry flour
- salt
method:
- Pick the herb and rinse it once with salt. Then rinse it three more times with lukewarm water. Shake it dry.-
- Beat the eggs in a large pot.
- Crumble a sugar cube and the yeast in a bowl. Add lukewarm water until the yeast and sugar are covered.
- Pour the milk into a saucepan and heat until the milk is lukewarm.-
- Add the herb to the eggs and mix. Gradually add the lukewarm milk to the herb mixture and keep mixing. Also gradually add the pastry flour and 500 ml mineral water. Then add the sugar and yeast mixture with a ladle and put a lid on the pot. Leave to rise until the pot is full (this takes about an hour).
- Fry the pancakes in butter in a pan. Serve like other pancakes with sugar, syrup or jam.