I beat the diet police. I reminded them it's pancake day. We missed breakfast pancakes so we're planning pancakes later in the day, starting with lunch time.
Let them eat pancakes! (My variation on 'Let them eat cake', supposedly said by Marie Antoinette, although attributed to another lady much earlier. I don't need to move the last two word phrase. The lady was earlier and the attribution was earlier.)
Everybody should either know by heart or stick on the fridge or inside the larder / store cupboard door the ingredients/recipe for everyday pastries:
Pancake: Flour, egg and water/milk. (Pancake mix in any shop if you're in a hurry but cheaper to make your own and most homes have the ingredients.
Crumble: Flour and butter. Easiest pastry and fun if you like kneading with fingers, and no need to roll it out.
Shortcrust: Flour and ... You need a pastry board, floured to stop it sticking, and rolling pin, might be available in a holiday let if you are stuck indoors on a rainy day. Too much mess for me.
Biscuit base for cheesecake: Biscuits and ... I always think any recipe which suggests starting with somebody else's bread or cake is cheating, except for using up leftovers - I make an exception to this rule for
Bread and butter pudding. Bread and butter, and/or milk, and you can add sultanas.
Bread: Flour, water, yeast to make it rise - must wait, several hours in your hot cupboard with a clean tea towel over the top to be sure it doesn't overflow on your clothes and your socks don't fall in the bread. Cook in oven when risen.
Where to start?
Great to start children on cooking pancakes as the mixing is quick and easy. The cooking is fun.
Toss?
Never mind tossing pancakes. Wait until your pancake is starting to set underneath. Don't let it burn. Cook both sides by turning careful with a nonstick utensil. If money and space are abundant, and you like collecting novelties, use one of those fold-over pans.
Pancake Recipe Used Today
100 g of flour
2 eggs
300 ml milk (or less)
1 tbs olive oil (Most for frying, some in the mixture if you like)
salt to taste
More recipes
Google recipes and pick either the simplest (for beginners) or most unusual (for gourmets).
See my earlier post on the origins of pancake day and Lent and Passover and using up flour to keep the new harvest foods fresh and uncontaminated.
Angela Lansbury BS Hons CL ACG
Author, photojournalist, speaker and speech trainer.
Let them eat pancakes! (My variation on 'Let them eat cake', supposedly said by Marie Antoinette, although attributed to another lady much earlier. I don't need to move the last two word phrase. The lady was earlier and the attribution was earlier.)
This is a dieter's pancake, thin and semi-circular. A fussy chef or restaurant would make one perfectly round to fit a plate just slightly larger than the pancake. (So you match the size of pan and plate before you start cooking.)
Pancake: Flour, egg and water/milk. (Pancake mix in any shop if you're in a hurry but cheaper to make your own and most homes have the ingredients.
Crumble: Flour and butter. Easiest pastry and fun if you like kneading with fingers, and no need to roll it out.
Shortcrust: Flour and ... You need a pastry board, floured to stop it sticking, and rolling pin, might be available in a holiday let if you are stuck indoors on a rainy day. Too much mess for me.
Biscuit base for cheesecake: Biscuits and ... I always think any recipe which suggests starting with somebody else's bread or cake is cheating, except for using up leftovers - I make an exception to this rule for
Bread and butter pudding. Bread and butter, and/or milk, and you can add sultanas.
Bread: Flour, water, yeast to make it rise - must wait, several hours in your hot cupboard with a clean tea towel over the top to be sure it doesn't overflow on your clothes and your socks don't fall in the bread. Cook in oven when risen.
Where to start?
Great to start children on cooking pancakes as the mixing is quick and easy. The cooking is fun.
Toss?
Never mind tossing pancakes. Wait until your pancake is starting to set underneath. Don't let it burn. Cook both sides by turning careful with a nonstick utensil. If money and space are abundant, and you like collecting novelties, use one of those fold-over pans.
Pancake Recipe Used Today
100 g of flour
2 eggs
300 ml milk (or less)
1 tbs olive oil (Most for frying, some in the mixture if you like)
salt to taste
More recipes
Google recipes and pick either the simplest (for beginners) or most unusual (for gourmets).
See my earlier post on the origins of pancake day and Lent and Passover and using up flour to keep the new harvest foods fresh and uncontaminated.
Angela Lansbury BS Hons CL ACG
Author, photojournalist, speaker and speech trainer.
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