- you only have 4 weeks to decide.
Whatever, are you prepared??
soon enough :)
will get hubby to make this year - about time he learnt how to :D
???Hard to fast when the freezer and the larder are bulging with home produce.
Our freezer is well stocked too, and vegetables are still rolling in thick and fast from the allotment - mostly leeks and parsnips.
I am not particularly keen on traditional pancakes, I find crepes far more digestible, whether savoury or sweet. Strawberries marinated in orange brandy and flambed with crepes bring back exquisite memories of our first French holiday. We could not afford to eat out, so made fabulous meals every day with friends we were staying with in Brittany.
I really should fast, but haven't the will power, but I do love pancakes! My fail-safe recipe for the batter. 4 oz plain flour, 2 eggs, a cup of milk (almost 1/2 pint) tblspoonful of water, pinch of salt. Hot oiled frying pan, which is smoking and your away. So easy and quick and such a lot of scrumptious fillings to choose from. :) busy_lizzie
Hope you weren't suggesting that mine are not crepes, Curry??
They are like the finest lace!!
SO many recipes - ours is:
3 large eggs
1-1/3 cups whole milk
3/4 cups unbleached, all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon salt
3 Tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
And once the pan is buttered, never again.
Tim your crêpes are pure dead gorgeous - mouth-wateringly so! And Curry I agree. My kids have never had anything but crêpes. Hardly surprising since they have a francophone francophile for a mother.
My own mother's favourite was crêpes with butter orange zest and Grand Marnier. My goodness and her a practising Catholic too!
I would not even venture to suggest anything of the sort, Tim. I was brought up on stodgy food, and traditional pancakes were a feature of that diet. It was only later, when I took a fervent interest in preparing food myself, that I discovered light delicate batters, as you say, like lace. Simple food, prepared with care, but well remembered.
In this house, we have pancakes ever Sunday morning, especially since I discovered I could make them egg free for daughter number one. Just lemon and sugar for me.
Eggs, gluten, fats, carbos , greens - oh, how I love children!!
Do the egg free ones work?
They do Tim, altho they are more fragile, and you can't make crepes, more like canadian/american pancakes. She doesn't care, this is the only place she can get them safely. So many things have egg in, poor love. I have now had to master cakes, biscuits and pancakes....if only eggless yorkies would rise!
Oh stop it! Here I am trying to finally get myself onto a diet and you wave PANCAKES at me! Argh! ;)
Traditional Yorkshire batter for me: 2 eggs, 4oz P flour, 1/4pt water, 1/4pt milk, beat it together and serve with lemon or golden syrup!
(yes I know, golden syrup... what the heck...)
moonbells (vegetarian for Lent, which is not nearly as hard as it used to be, and gives me a good chance to eat the freezer contents before the new season crops start)
Hi, I'm new to this forum, although I have been lurking for a bit.
Emma Jane, how do you make your eggless pancakes? I just use milk and flour and they seem to be good enough for my son.
I've found this great site, now all I need to do is find an allotment. My garden is getting full with all the ideas of things to plant that I'm getting from here.
plaese put up how you make egg less pancakes i would love to try them emma jane thank you
As I mentioned, they are not thin crepe like pancakes, and I'm afraid I don't weigh any of the ingredients! I put a few tablespoons of plain flour and a teaspoon of bicarb into a bowl and gradually add milk, beating very well, until the batter resembles double cream. I then add a splish of lemon juice which reacts with the bicarb by fizzing, creating lovely little crumpet like holes. You don't have to do this, I have made them without the bicarb and they work just as well, it is purely a texture thing, and daughter likes the little holes as they soak up the lemon juice! :)
Another way I make them is using eggless egg powder which you can get from specialist shops and delis. You make it up with water and it binds and rises as you would hope - but doesn't do yorkies!
I also make waffles in my waffle iron with this recipe, but use a thicker batter and add melted butter to the batter - just a splash. Works fine for this house of allergies. ;D
Those sound good Emma-Jane but here we're OK with eggs and Possum has been trained to come down and make her own pancakes or drop scones for breakfast on the very few occasions when we get to have a lie-in and she also has them as an afternoon snack if we know dinner will be late for some reason.
Visiting friends, both British and Belgian, find the whole pancake for breakfast and/or tea thing quite decadent and I have the Belgians sold on crèpes anglaises and frequentloy have to give out the recipe for drop scones. You can buy packs of ready made sweet or savoury crèpes in every supermarket here as they're a national pastime.
Possum's favourite afternoon treat when we're out is a Brussels waffle with whipped cream and hot chocolate sauce or a crèpe Mikado which has ice-cream and hot chocolate sauce. Too rich and sugary for me.