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Doc
Keeper of the Scrolls
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05/02/2008
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Seeing how it is Pancake Tuesday today I thought I would add two simple recipes and some suggestions for making this quick and tasty meal.
English Pancakes
Prep and cook time: Up to 30 mins
Serves: Makes 8 pancakes
Ingredients: 125g plain flour, sifted
1 medium size egg, beaten
300ml milk
a little oil for frying
Method: Sift the flour into a bowl and make a well in the centre. Add the egg, then gradually add half the milk, stirring constantly. Add the remaining milk and beat thoroughly, until smooth.
Heat a small omelette or frying pan and add a few drops of oil. Pour a little batter into the pan and tilt so that the batter coats the bottom of the pan.
Cook for 1-2 minutes, or until bubbles appear and the underside is golden. Loosen the edges of the pancake, then flip it over and cook the other side for a further 1-2 minutes, or until golden.
Pile the pancakes on to a warm plate, separating them with sheets of greaseproof paper. Keep warm and continue to make 8 pancakes in total. American Pancakes Prep and cook time: Up to 30 mins Serves: Makes 4 pancakes Ingredients: 2 eggs
2 cups of flour
1 1/2 cups of milk
4 tbsps butter or margarine or shortening
2 tablespoons of sugar
6 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon of salt
Method: Beat egg until fluffy; beat in remaining ingredients just until smooth. Grease and heat frying pan.
Throughly clean items to be placed in pancakes. Spoon pancake batter into pan and place item in individual pancakes, until all items are used. Serve at least one pancake with an item to each family member
Traditionally I have always had my pancakes with lemon juice and a sprinkle of suger or a dollop of syrup poured on, but there are hundreds of different fillings you can add, whats your favorite way of eating pancakes.
TTFN - Doc
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Stanley
Local Historian & Old Fart
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Posted - 05/02/2008 : 14:57
But not so much in Ripon I think.......
Stanley Challenger Graham
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moh
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Posted - 05/02/2008 : 15:16
I left hubby making his own pancakes whilst I went to the hairdressers. He also has lemon and candarel sweetener on. I am not too fond of them but when I had them I put sugar, lemon and butter on.
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Posted - 05/02/2008 : 15:22
There was a guy on TV this morning saying that the liquid can be anything you like. He was using beer.
Lemon and sugar for me though imindoors is the pancake chef and has done all kinds of fillings. We have had chocolate and fruit soaked in alcohol, cointreau I think. We've had savoury fillings - chicken in a sauce, ham and cheese to name a couple.
I still go back to sugar and lemon though.
Mel
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Another
Traycle Mine Overseer
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Posted - 05/02/2008 : 15:29
Never been too struck on them. C's already planning how many she and D will have - not for but after tea? Nolic
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Posted - 05/02/2008 : 22:52
Tried the English recipe. Thanks Papa Doc. The batter looked very thin compared to usual, but kept the faith, and the result was excellent. Only got five though - frying pan must be large.
These pre- Lent things are interesting. It's Carnevale (farewell to meat) time in many parts of the world this week, and tomorrow in Tenerife is the Funeral of the Sardine, in which a giant model sardine is pulled through the streets accompanied by much weeping an wailing by the suitably dressed "mourners" . They drag it to the beach, then set fire to it, and set off fireworks. Good fun!
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A.J. Richer
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Posted - 06/02/2008 : 12:47
Oh, dear...pancakes.
Being fond of the American recipe myself (wonder why?) reading this thread brought a chuckle and a memory of how different we Amercans can be from our English cousins.
More than a few years ago I had to catch a train out of London for the Midlands - going up to visit my uncle as a side from a business trip.
Jumped on the train sans breakfast, figuring there had to be food on the train (big mistake). Wandered back to the restaurant car to find a little snack bar sort of thing serving coffee, fizzy drinks and the like.
Oh, dear.
Read down the menu...nuts in packets, crisps...aha! Flapjacks! Now, to an American a flapjack is another term for the venerable pancake - so I thought I was getting microwaved packaged pancakes - adequate but not spectacular...but enough to hold me till I could get a fryup on the far end.
What I got was a...brick... of some unidentificable substance nearly hard enough to damage teeth and artificially flavoured in apple and cinnamon.
Again, oh dear. However, soaked in the excuse-for-coffee sold at the same stand it proved edible...barely. When I reached the far end my uncle was mystified by my insistance on going to the nearest restaurant for a proper breakfast.
Two great nations separated by a common language, indeed.
Alan
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Stanley
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Posted - 07/02/2008 : 06:57
Alan, you walked straight into the biggest joke in the world, modern railway snacks..... The last bacon buttie I had on a train gave me food poisoning and that must have been bad because I am just about bullet-proof after getting one of the worst cases of food poisoning the docs had ever seen while I was in the army. It even included botulism.... Best way to find a good breakfast in a strange city is hail a cab and ask the driver to take you to where he has his breakfast...... Works every time.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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