Pancake Day!
Today is Shrove Tuesday, and in the UK we traditionally eat pancakes on this day. Pancakes are one of the easiest desserts to make and are nice and quick. Plus, they don’t have to be a dessert. Plenty of pancake houses will feature savoury pancakes. However, my personal favourite is sweet (of course!).
Forget pancake mixes, you don’t know what’s gone in there. All you need is 3 ingredients plus some butter or oil for frying them in.
1/2 pint (300ml) milk
1 egg
Plain flour
Pinch of salt (optional, I don’t use it).
Beat the milk and egg together then slowly add flour and beat (an electric whisk is useful here) until you get a thick but still loose consistency, similar to that of a slighly thick sauce (or double cream). Then heat a pan and add some oil or butter to coat the base of it, pour in some of the mixture until it thinly covers the base of the pain, allow it to cook until the top is almost firm, then turn it over (flipping pancakes is great fun!).
Cook all of the mixture into pancakes. I tend to keep an oven on low heat to put the finished ones in so that they’re all still hot when you’re finished. Then serve with whatever suits your taste
- Icing sugar
- Lemon juice (fresh is best!)
- Maple syrup
- Stewed Fruit
- Vanilla icecream
Or for savoury ideas why not try ham and cheese?
Don’t forget… pancakes are great any time of the year, not just today 
- February 16th '10
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