Quire of Paper Pancakes

Ingredients

• 16 eggs
• 1 quart milk
• 1 nutmeg
• 1/2 pound flour
• 1 pound butter, melted
• 1 pound sugar
• 2 gills wine
• butter
• powdered sugar

Instructions

1. Beat sixteen eggs.
2. Add to them a quart of milk, a nutmeg, half a pound of flour, a pound of melted butter, a pound of sugar, and two gills of wine;
3. take care the flour be not in lumps.
4. Butter the pan for the first pancake.
5. Run them as thin as possible, and when coloured they are done.
6. Do not turn them, but lay them carefully in the dish, sprinkling powdered sugar between each layer. Serve them up hot.
7. This quantity will make four dozen pancakes.