Pancake making competition!

[Jayb]

Anyone up for a pancake competition? This year Shrove Tuesday is on 4th of March.

To enter, post a brief method, ingredients used, (you can withhold one secret ingredient, but have to declare you are a secret flipper!)  A tasting description, please be as accurate as you can!  And if possible a picture of your masterpiece or eices!

You can be as creative as you like, sweet, savoury, filled, open, rolled, folded, large or small pancakes!

Entries in on this thread by the end of March 6th. Voting to follow.

[Jayb]

[goodlife]

 
Oh one must make and eat LOTS of pancakes...

I'm in

[Jayb]

 

[Melbourne12]

I KNOW that Goodlife is going to come up with some fabulous Scandinavian recipes.  So, just to be cheeky and get in first, we've started our pancake day early with pancakes for Sunday brunch.  I made Swedish Raggmunk, which are a cross between potato cakes and pancakes.

The batter is simple.  90g plain flour, salt, black pepper, ground cardamom seeds (optional but delicious), 1 egg, and 300ml milk. 




This makes a rather thin batter, into which you grate around 800g of potato.  The Magimix makes the job very straightforward.



I fried them on a crepe maker, but any suitable pan will do.



You can see that the shredded potato is just coated with batter.  The pancakes need to be thin so that the potato is cooked through by the time the outside is crispy.



Here they are piled up to keep warm:



Served traditionally with salt pork and fresh lingonberries, they're still pretty good with grilled streaky bacon and bottled lingonberries.



ETA: I forgot the tasting notes.  These pancakes are more of a texture to go with the bacon than a taste in themselves.  They have a crispy outside, and a lovely soft inside.  If you use the cardamom, they have a subtle spicy flavour, but that's all.

[BarriedaleNick]

So the spuds are uncooked when you grate them in??

[Melbourne12]

So the spuds are uncooked when you grate them in??

Absolutely.  Nice starchy maincrop spuds, peeled, and then grated straight into the batter.

[goodlife]

MMM...that looks nice...almost like 'pancake rosti'.

I KNOW that Goodlife is going to come up with some fabulous Scandinavian recipes.

And there was me thinking of something 'simple but tasty'...
That sounds like I have reputation I wasn't aware on...thinking hat is on now and I'm trying to live to the expectations..
You shall se what happens tomorrow( Tuesday is too busy..)...I'll be back (said with very strong Scandinavian accent.. }

[goodlife]

Entry NO 1 

Spinach pancakes with savoury filling. The batter is just normal one..3 eggs..milk..plain flour and I added some whole meal too..salt..touch of sugar..teeny bit oil and cooked, chopped and cooled down spinach >fried slowly with BUTTER and kept under grease proof paper to allow the pancakes go really floppy and bendy.

Filling: Turkey mince, wild mushrooms and 'normal' mushrooms, chilli, garlic, welsh onion, three corned leek, parsley, salt, pepper, celery seeds, smoky paprika and little soy sauce..all fried> cooled> 1 raw egg mixed in as 'binder'

>fill the pancakes>little grated cheese on and cooked in oven until cheese gets some colour. DONE!

[goodlife]

Entry NO 2  ...still room in a tummy after the first lot....

BLOOD pancakes.

Batter; Milk, water, 4 eggs, dried blood, plain flour, wholemeal flour, oatmeal, barley flour, salt, black and white pepper, finely chopped welsh onion (softened on frying pan) > all mixed together and allowed to 'rest' few hours> fried slowly'ish with BUTTER.
Eaten with mushed up lingonberries that were sweetened with sugar.

[pumkinlover]

Looks lovely-- there is only me who likes pancakes here so I never bother 

when I moved to Chesterfield I was surprised as I was told that you need orange juice to go on the pancakes- not lemons!!

ETA - not so surea bout the blood pancakes- I meant the turkey and mushroom ones

[goodlife]

Entry NO 3  ...huh...tummy is getting full now...little bit room left for deserts..

Plain and ordinary pancakes..served with strawberry jam, maple syrup and oranges &sugar  (couldn't settle just one choice)

And the tummy is positively STUFFED!    "Burb" 

...may I just say...I didn't pig out and eat it all!

[goodlife]

Oh ah..tasting notes..WELL...

There is definite spinach flavour coming through but not overly strong..and the mince mix is quite subtle to compliment the pancakes..the wildmushrooms makes the filling taste very meaty..enough flavour from spices but without being 'spicy'.

'Bloody ones'...that is difficult to describe..pancake X blood pudding..and with sweet berries it is one of those complimenting 'sweet and savoury' dishes. Traditionallyt that would have been served with boiled potatoes as well to make it complete meal.
Hubby asked "what are they"...and I said..."chocolate pancakes"  He did like them though!

The third one...ohhh...ahhh...sweet fix! And they small enough to be stuffed in mouth one at the time.. eaten with fingers and getting all messy with sweet sticky yumminess !

[Jayb]

Yummmm, (not 100% sure about the blood pancakes though!) 

[artichoke]

Have I missed something? When I was in Finland, EVERYTHING was served with redcurrants.....Wonderful and generous tables full of delicious treats. 

Maybe not in March, but I am sure you have them in a freezer ready for pancakes?

"sweet berries ": is that redcurrants? Lingonberries?

Goodlife, I was in Finland because my husband is an academic professor in the field of peat re-generation, and we were stunned by your country's harvesting machines, their power and sheer destruction. What do you think about this?

All your advice on this forum encourages caring for soil and nourishing plants. But in your country, as far as I know, acres of peat bogs are being scraped to the bone every single day (I have watched them), and the ancient peat bogs cannot be restored.

I am sorry, I do not mean to sound critical - but I would be interested in your thoughts on this.

[goodlife]

Those are lingon berries and yes, they are 'fresh' from freezer..as well as the wild mushrooms too.
I go back once a year..and I either go and do bit of foraging myself to bring some goodies back or just buy little bit from market. Lingonberries are usually used with 'everyting' rather than redcurrants..though when they are season they do tend to be used similar fashion.

As for the other thoughts..I just do 'quick' typing here, being pancake thread..but if you want to rattle more about it...new thread perhaps?
My family comes from Eastern Finland..near Russian border and there is huge areas of peat bogs..and yes, sadly peat harvesting is big source of income for those parts of the country where the jobs and income opportunities are limited. But it is 'double edge sword' kind of issue...they also care a lot of their envinronment, after all forests have always kept nation fed, fueled and been source of income...wild mushrooms only is multimillion industry and they are picked and sent abroad by 'army' of lorry containers, foreigners as far as Thailand and Japan come to pick and do seasonal work to get their hands on them.
Personally I don't like peat harvesting..but as I understand some of the reasons for it..turning other way hurts, but in same time it is hard not to. Yes, I've seen it too and know people who does it.
In Finland there is vast areas as 'national' parks. Not to forget why forests are 'worked' too..some peat areas got 'ploughed over' during war years, people have always done their clearings in forests to grow crops and after few years they been allowed to grow back to their original state..forests have always been seen as kind of 'working envinronment'. Good link to other to see what peat extraction does.. http://www.sll.fi/ajankohtaista/tilattavat/turve-fossiilinen-energiaratkaisu.pdf

[Borlotti]

I don't think I will win as I bought frozen ones, and must say they are OK.  Have already eaten 6, saves on washing up.

[goodlife]

Anymore pancakes yet?? I'm getting (visually) hungry..

Indulge meeee......!

[Jayb]

I'm cooking some later 

[pumkinlover]

Sorry we have had Christmas pudding!

[goodlife]

 

Sorry we have had Christmas pudding!