Pancakes - Page 2 - Clubhouse

cougie

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11/11/2002 at 17:33

Sugar and lemon but NO butter ! My wife does that - weird woman !

We used to have a restaurant The Pancake Kitchen round here. Everything you like so long as there was a Pancake in it. I loved that place !

Definitely a niche there to be filled.

(as my tum needs filling now - all this talk of food !)

Velociraptor

11/11/2002 at 21:05

Codfather, I've just realised you can't be e-mailed from here, so here is my mother's Scotch pancake recipe.

Sift together 8oz. self-raising flour and 2 dessertspoonfuls of caster sugar. Make a well in the centre and add one egg, one dessertspoonful of golden syrup (or treacle if you're making treacle pancakes) and enough milk to make a soft dropping consistency. Beat for a few minutes then leave to sit until bubbles rise to the top of the mixture.
Drop spoonfuls of the mixture on to a hot, lightly greased girdle (I use the hotplate of my ancient gas cooker because I haven't inherited the family girdle yet). Turn them with a metal spatula or fish slice when bubbles appear on the surface.
If not eating them immediately, place a tea towel on a wire rack and put pancakes on top and cover with another tea towel until cool.
They keep for a few days in an airtight tin, freeze very well, and can be reheated in the microwave.
I normally make a double quantity.

Dalya

11/11/2002 at 23:10

I'm Canadian, so it has GOT to be thick pancakes with maple syrup, which is truly the nectar of the gods...

Dalya

11/11/2002 at 23:11

PS: Is it because winter is closing in that there are so many warm, high carb treat threads going at the moment???

DC

Gaz.

11/11/2002 at 23:20

Vrap,
Whoh, whats all this cooking stuff I have trouble heating up a tin of soup.
Cant you buy frozen in the supermarket......

Psi

12/11/2002 at 00:24

There's a fantastic pancake place in Inverness - they do waffles too. Yum yum yum.

Beth 30

12/11/2002 at 06:41

Jif lemon and sweetener. Yummy. I'm drooling.....

Shock and Awe

12/11/2002 at 17:58

V-Rap
Thanks very much fot the recipe- We'll try them out when we return from ante-natal. I can't wait (for the pancakes that is).

Hildegard

12/11/2002 at 19:50

Dayla,
I love Canadian style pancakes too! And the maple syrup is heavenly.
Fortunately, I also love thin pancakes - yes, I've got a lot of love to give when it comes to good food.

Dalya

12/11/2002 at 22:54

Hild, how is the thesis going? Mine is at a dead standstill, even though all I need to do is some correcting and editing. It would help if I did not have 14 hour per day job...

Ah pancakes. All shapes and sizes will do!

DC

Hildegard

12/11/2002 at 23:27

Dayla,
come over to the darkside where I do most of my ranting. I'm nearly done with chapter 8, out of a total of 9. Then, come January, I get 6 months to make it presentable. So basically, I can't get to sleep at night, my social life consists of watching films with my boyfriend (who is also finishing his thesis) because I'm too knackered to even think about partying, my eating habits are crap, and I wish my mum and dad didn't live 3,500 miles away.

Bet you wished you'd never asked! But on the good side, I am progressing steadily despite all the pain (and b1tching).

Velociraptor

13/11/2002 at 09:47

Gaz, you're absolutely right. Why bother? You can buy packets of pancakes in the bakery section of the supermarket, they're ALMOST as good as home-made, they freeze very well and are delicious microwaved and eaten with jam or lemon and sugar.

All you lose is that initial few minutes when you take them off the girdle and eat them at their very best. Can't be beaten.

Codfather, if an antenatal clinic features in your family life, be sure to cook the pancakes all the way through and not leave them sticky in the middle. Don't want to risk salmonella from the eggs, do we?

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