More usually known as Pancake Day and traditionally the day to eat up all the eggs and butter before Lent fasting. I've never quite understood this as it's round about now that chickens start laying well again so even if you eat lots of eggs in pancakes there will be plenty more eggs before Easter......... what did they do with all the eggs between now and 40 days time? And anyway, pancakes only need a teeny bit of some sort of fat for frying so it wouldn't have used much butter.
Oh well, whatever the reason it will be pancakes for dinner tonight........... with sugar and lemon obviously, I'm a traditionalist, no foreign ideas like maple syrup or chocolate spread here!
And why do I always get the one which is usually a bit too thick and doughy because the pan is never hot enough first time round?
Mix a pancake, stir a pancake, pop it in the pan;
Fry the pancake,toss the pancake -
Catch it if you can.
Christina Rossetti 1893
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Sue
I must be going mad! Completely forgot about it.
ReplyDeleteI always get that pancake to. I love watching the pancake vendors with the huge hotplate make them .They have that funny stick that they swirl over the top of the pancake to make it an
ReplyDeleteeven depth all over. Lemon and a tiny bit of sugar for me or dark chocolate shavings and a little cream. Yum!
I always used to do pancake day at school. Everything was based around pancakes and we finished off by making and eating some. It was lovely.
ReplyDeleteThen the National Curriculum got too heavy and even one missed day was hard to make up. So sad.
J x
I've not made pancakes on Shrove Tuesday for years, I might today. Even on rations I have all the ingredients, well except lemon ... but I could use a dollop of jam 😊
ReplyDeleteFirst one is the cooks perk!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely pancakes here - 6 for him, 2 for me - lemon juice for him, orange juice for me.
ReplyDeletePancakes are one thing my mum would make - and they were ALWAYS of the "thick and doughy" variety as she knew no other way, bless her! I used to make pancakes when the kids were small and like you, I am a traditionalist and went for sugar and lemon, although Tam always favoured some stewed apple with hers. I can recommend it.
ReplyDeleteAs thin as lace and dripping with lemon juice with just a suggestion of granulated sugar. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. I do sometimes make the American tick style ones for a late breakfast, with maple syrup and bacon. Almost as mmmmm as the real ones.
ReplyDeleteCheap...filling...what's not to like?! x
ReplyDeleteDelicious, the dog always got the crummy one ;) batters are stodge but so welcoming in the depths of winter. The Queen when she was a child always made the drop pancakes, that fizzle up and you dress with icing sugar.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your pancakes. I'm doing without this year as I have a couple of lbs still to lose and would rather have something else for a syn. The boys won't miss out as Jon will make them whilst I'm out of my way at my Welsh class. I have to say I do prefer American style pancakes if I do have them, not crepe thin ones.
ReplyDeleteButter does not feature in pancakes, just a little bit of very very hot lard in the frying pan for the cooking. During Lent at school we would still eat light meals prepared with eggs but meat was avoided throughout, not just Fridays. Although pancakes are made with just a simple flour, eggs and milk batter I note that the shops are selling instant pancakes in packs. Madness.
ReplyDeleteI suppose "just add water and an egg" is all some people can manage!
DeleteThey don't even have to do that. They just heat them up.
DeleteOh good grief! I didn't realise there was such a thing.
DeleteI am so wanting that whisk
ReplyDeleteSnap!!
DeleteWell, neither of you can have it!! I suppose it is quite old, I've had for as long as I can remember.
DeleteIngredients ready, pan ready.............
ReplyDeleteI like to keep it simple as well.
ReplyDeleteFried in oil, butter, or lard (never in this household!) I don't like them, but each to their own. I make dreadful pancakes, yet still they come back for more. One likes a jug of warm golden syrup to drizzle over them, another likes the traditional lemon and sugar, the third likes orange juice and sugar. The dog likes them any way they fall.
ReplyDeleteSugar originates from Barbados and Lemons from India and yet you say you are a traditionalist - are you sure about that ?
ReplyDeleteOh very picky!
DeleteActually our sugar comes from Suffolk and Norfolk sugar beet and is made at the two factories at Bury St Edmunds and Cantley!
No pancakes here. I can't stand them, especially the smell when they are cooking!
ReplyDeleteNo pancakes here. Mine usually turn out disgusting...lol.
ReplyDeleteHugs-x-
Pancakes you can't beat em, especially when somebody else makes them (see my blog today)
ReplyDeleteSadly I don't think anyone else has ever made me pancakes!
ReplyDeleteGrew up with the thin pancakes with the sugar and lemon. Came to Canada and discovered flapjacks-smaller, thicker pancakes with maple syrup-delicious-no going back!! We also enjoy blueberry/brandy syrup as well. I'll be making waffles for supper.
ReplyDeleteHave great memories of this day. It's funny how a day can bring back memories.
ReplyDeleteMmm...pancakes with real maple syrup and sausage...delicious!
ReplyDeleteI was away yesterday so didn't even think of pancakes, but I do make drop scones quite often and always use rice flour and they cook and taste just as good. I sometimes make pancakes for a savoury filling, that makes a change too xcx
ReplyDeleteI make my own clarified butter so did the pancakes in it. I can only eat them with real Canadian Maple Syrup. I only eat them once a year.
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