Pancake Day

[Earthmaiden Profile]

It's Shrove Tuesday next week (March 1st). Will you be making special pancakes?

A local garden centre cafe is offering a selection of sweet pancakes for breakfast - and these. I wonder if it's the courgette fritter recipe which Wildies were mad about for a while.
Courgette & feta stacked pancakes topped with smashed avocado & salsa (v) - L 10.5

[Earthmaiden Profile]

Hmmm, it's St David's Day too.. perhaps get inventive with those pancakes!
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2022/f ... davids-day

[slimpersoninside Profile]

We usually have a pile of pancakes as our meal on shrove Tuesday (it is only once a year after all ). This year there is no way I can stand long enough to cook them so we were going to give it a miss, however, the reviews of Sainsbury's plain ones were good so we bought a few packs.

They will be the usual lemon & sugar or maple syrup toppings so nothing special, maybe next year I'll push the boat out.

[Seatallan Profile]

Made mine a few weeks back (and froze them). Love making pancakes. One of the most therapeutic things ever I think.

[Earthmaiden Profile]

Slimpersoninside, I tried bought ones - I think from Sainsburys - once and they were excellent. I was quite surprised. I find pancake making quite a chore and felt that these were something that compared quite well to home efforts without the hassle.

I hope you enjoy them! I don't think you can beat lemon and sugar as a topping.

[slimpersoninside Profile]

I usually make them and this year I was going to use Sea's method of wrapping, freezing and reheating, but circumstances got in the way and that is now next years plan.

EM, I saw a few reviewers of the Sainsbury's ones saying they were almost as good as homemade, this is what swayed us to give them a go.

[northleedsbhoy Profile]

I’ll be having Scotch pancakes with butter and possibly maple sauce.

Cheers
NLB

[KeenCook2 Profile]

Oooh, that's good to know. EM, I'm with you on the pancake making - odd, isn't it, how some things just strike you as being too much of a chore!

I will look out for the Sainsbury's ones

[Suffs Profile]

I just don't get it .... for us pancakes are a quick and easy lunch/supper ... quicker than reheating most 'ready meals' ... no faff, no hassle and hardly any washing up ... tasty too, with a huge range of sweet and savoury options for fillings ... what's not to love?

[Seatallan Profile]

As I say, I adore making pancakes- it's one of my favourite kitchen things especially if I'm listening to Radio 6 whilst I'm making.

[Earthmaiden Profile]

I just don't get it .... for us pancakes are a quick and easy lunch/supper ... quicker than reheating most 'ready meals' ... no faff, no hassle and hardly any washing up ... tasty too, with a huge range of sweet and savoury options for fillings ... what's not to love?

I'm ok with the first one but have trouble keeping the pan and fat temperature just right for the rest. I don't see how they can be quick, that relentless pancake after pancake. I'm always astounded how many a basic mixture makes. I always make thin ones - if I want something thicker it goes in the waffle maker and is lovely! Waffle recipes contain oil or butter, I think that might be the difference with a successful thick sort.

[Suffs Profile]

For me the first one is always scrappy ... it's Cook's perks ... the rest are straight forward and done in moments. We're all different

[KeenCook2 Profile]

I never get them right, neither the first nor any of the subsequent ones, and agrree with EM re how on earth they can be quick, unless you're doing several pans at once! They're always consumed before the next one is even made and whoever is cooking them has to wait ... faff is hardly the word for it

[Seatallan Profile]

That's why I make a batch in advance and freeze them.

I've got it off to a fine art over the years. Never made a dud pancake yet. As Suffs says, we're all different.

[Suffs Profile]

I've just made a bowl of batter ... it's been 'left to stand' until suppertime.

[Stokey Sue Profile]

No I don't find proper pancakes - crepes - quick and easy, you make maybe 6 or 8 from each egg and you have to stand over them and nurse each one.

If I'm in the mood I can quite enjoy that, comes in the same category as stirring risotto I suppose, and I probably don't do them often enough to get practised.

According to Martin Blunos the Latvian equivalent of the English proverb "if at first you don't succeed..." translates simply as "The first pancake is a lump"!

[KeenCook2 Profile]

According to Martin Blunos the Latvian equivalent of the English proverb "if at first you don't succeed..." translates simply as "The first pancake is a lump"!

Love it, Sue

[Earthmaiden Profile]

That's why I make a batch in advance and freeze them.

I've got it off to a fine art over the years. Never made a dud pancake yet. As Suffs says, we're all different.

How thick are your pancakes, Seatallen? Mine (the sort I like with lemon and sugar) are more like crepes and can easily fall apart - that's the sort I was brought up with. My experience exactly as KC2 describes. I can't imagine being able to stack them. Are yours more the American fluffy sort?

[Stokey Sue Profile]

I used to make and stack crepes, haven't done it for years, but made crepes Suzette for OH, the trick I think is to cook them quite slowly so that every drop of batter is set

[Earthmaiden Profile]

I wonder what this is like to use?
https://www.lakeland.co.uk/63489/Lakela ... repe-Maker.
Mention of crepes Suzette reminded me of a French girl I knew who had the burner for the table and everything - I think I could manage to fold them and put them into the sauce to flambee. Yum.