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Both stages of this multicache are located on the Breezy Hill Farm tract of the Canton Land Trust along the Arthur and Eunice Sweeton Trail (yellow). The GPS bounce is present and final coordinates are averaged from five approaches. No need to bushwack, both stages are a few yards off the yellow trail but in opposite directions from parking. Please rehide the final as found to make the cache look like a crepe being cooked.
The crêpe is a very thin, cooked pancake usually made from wheat flour. The word, like the pancake itself, is of French origin, deriving from the Latin “crispa”, meaning "curled." While crêpes originate from Brittany, a region in the northwest of France, their consumption is widespread; they are considered a French national dish.
Crêpes are made by pouring a thin liquid batter onto a hot frying pan or flat circular hot plate, often with a trace of butter or oil on the pan's surface. The batter is spread evenly over the cooking surface of the pan or plate either by tilting the pan or by distributing the batter with an offset spatula or crepe dowel.
Crêpes are usually of two types: sweet crêpes (crêpes sucrées) made with wheat flour and slightly sweetened, and savory galettes (crêpes salées) made with buckwheat flour and unsweetened. Sweet crêpes are served with a variety of fillings, from the most simple with only sugar to fruit and Nutella to flambéed crêpes Suzette. Savory fillings can be elaborate. Common savory fillings for meal crêpes include: cheese, asparagus, ham, spinach, eggs, ratatouille, mushrooms, and various meats and other vegetables. It is also a fairly common practice to roll or envelop them and then lightly fry, bake or sauté them. Traditionally the crepe is folded into a cone shape. The fold really depends on the filling.
The batter of the original French crêpe is usually made with white wheat flour when the crêpe is served as a sweet crêpe. Savory crêpes, called "galettes", are made with buckwheat flour. Buckwheat isn’t wheat at all…it’s a wildflower. Batter made from buckwheat flour is gluten-free, which makes it possible for people who have a gluten allergy or intolerance to eat this type of crêpe.
A buckwheat galette looks like a 12-15 inch round piece of granite or mica- like rock in the frying pan. That’s important to remember because the final stage looks like a galette being fried on the ground!!!!!
It is also possible to make crêpes or galettes without eggs, and crêpes without milk for folks who are concerned about those ingredients
A crêperie (the place to get a crepe) may be an outdoor vendor cart or stall, serving crêpes as a form of fast food or street food, or it may be a more formal sit-down restaurant or bistro café. Crêperies are typical of Brittany in France; however, crêperies can be found throughout France, Europe, and even Seoul and Tokyo, the United States and Canada. In the Canadian province of Quebec, crêperies are especially abundant because of the French influence.
This is a multi-cache that celebrates farmland and woods where chickens, cows, wheat, and buckwheat grow to give us the quintessential ingredients of eggs, milk, flour, and butter to make the awesome crepe. Located in the Breezy Hill Farm section of the Canton Land Trust along the yellow trail, take Indian Hill Rd. off of Rte 44 and follow it to the intersection with Breezy Hill Farm Rd. The parking coordinates are 0.1 mile on the left side of the road after the intersection. The yellow trail cuts across the road east and west.
Stage One is a cammoed pill tube containing the coordinates of the final. Turn around and retrace downhill and find the yellow trail 30 feet up and across the road. Stay on the trail...no need to bushwahack although the GPS will tempt you. The final is a regular cache filled with traditional goodies and a crepe recipe for visitors to take home. You may want to try making them. If you have a favorite crepe recipe…e-mail me! You’ll need a flat pan…really flat…and a technique, but it’s sure worth learning to create the simple goodness of the crepe. Think of galettes in searching for the completely hidden final! It looks like a crepe being fried on the ground!!! Please rehide exactly as found. Make the hide look like you are cooking!
Congrats to Deakdevil and Chukhed for a coop FTF!
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