Life’s too short for papery pancakes. Welsh crempogau (crempog singular, also known as Ffroes) differ from the British/French crepe. More like the American pancake and bigger than the Scotch pancake, crempogau can be made with or without yeast, with buttermilk, oats or speckled with raisins or currants. Traditionally, they are made from self-raising flour, salt, eggs, milk and butter. Often stacked in a pile and smothered with butter, the stack can be sliced like a wedge of cake and eaten as a teatime treat.

Crempogau are traditionally eaten on Shrove Tuesday, though they're great to eat all year round! There are many customs attached to Shrove Tuesday in Wales, involving kicking cans up and down streets, door-to-door begging for flour and and cheeky songs and verses. They would have been cooked on a cast iron bakestone (or ‘planc’), but frying pans work fine, too!

Modryb Elin Enog

Os gwelwch chi'n dda ga i grempog?

Cew chithau de a siwgr brown

A phwdin lond eich ffedog

Modryb Elin Enog…

Please may I have a pancake?

You can have tea and brown sugar

And your apron full of pudding

Auntie Elin Enog