Article: Simple Meal Becomes Elegant One With Crepes

Crepes have a lot going for them. They require only a few ingredients: milk, eggs, flour, oil and a bit of butter.

Although crepe-making can be a little time-consuming, large batches can be made at one time and frozen for days, weeks or even months.

And the variety of crepes, from appetizers to entrees to desserts, is limited only by the cook's imagination.

Julia Child, in her book The Way to Cook (Knopf, $50), says "The crepe . . . is any cook's good friend. Crepes cook in a minute or less."

Her book contains a recipe for all-purpose crepe batter, which works for both entree and dessert crepes. Child also includes a recipe for a lighter crepe.

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