crempog

noun

crempog

noun

Etymology Borrowed from Welsh crempog.

1

A Welsh pancake made with self-raising flour, salt, eggs, milk and salted butter.

  • But each time a great stack of freshly made Crempogs was brought from the kitchen and handed round you can guess how fervently I prayed my mother's insistence that she really could eat no more of anything might spare us both.1947, Viscount Gwynedd, Dame Margaret: The Life Story of His Mother, page 194:
  • We used to visit farms for crempog teas and I used to eye the huge pot of melted butter, in which lurked the small round pancakes, with apprehension.1973, Kyffin Williams, Across the Straits: An Autobiography:

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