As some of you know, number one daughter is severly allergic to eggs. Anyone ever had a go at making eggless pancakes? I tried last year, with okay success, but will be experimenting over the weekend. Any tried and tested ideas out there?
not really pancakes but very similar. do you have access to 'quark' from the supermarket? usually to be found with the soft cheeses (though it should be kept with the yoghurts ~sigh~)
anyways, here is comes:
500 g cooked potatoes, cold
250 g Quark
100 g flour
50 g sugar
(1 Egg)
1 Pk. vanilla sugar
75 g raisins
salt
ok, so i cheated and the receipe does ask for an egg. but, you can leave it out, trust me. the quark holds the stuff together nicely :)
grate the cold potatoes finely. mix all ingredients together; if the dough is very sticky, add a little flour, if too dry, add a little water. either form a larger loaf, cut off thick slices and fry those in oil like pancakes, or form little balls from the dough which you press flat into little round cakes for frying.
hmm, must go and get me some quark, actually.
by the way, these will never be very thin, like pancakes should be. but then, they are not pancakes ;)
enjoy
On a similar note, I'm beginning to suspect I have a wheat intolerance (due to having felt very ill off and on for months, but much better within a week of cutting out wheat products).
Are there such things as flour-less pancakes? Or a decent substitute for flour? I like pancakes :(
Speedy Mango:
My daughter has a wheat intolerence - it is the 'Gluten' within the wheat that she is allerged to. Her symptoms included, feeling tired all the time, tummy ache, diarrhea etc. This is called Coeliac Disease.
You can purchase wheat free flour etc. and a whole host of wheat free products now from Tesco, Sainsbury's, ASDA, M&S etc.
The UK Coeliac Society produces a book on ALL the foods that are suitable for a wheat free diet. They can be found at:
http://www.coeliac.co.uk/
If you need any more information, please contact me.
Rich.
If i don't have any eggs in I just miss them out and add a little extra milk instead. Seems to work ok
Well, gave it a go, bit of an experiment, and number one daughter devoured 4 today with glee, and plenty of lemon and sugar ;D
In case anyone should want the recipe, no scales were involved, it was just 2 heaped tablespoons plain flour, 1 teaspoon bicarb, level tablespoon sugar, squeeze of lemon juice and then enough milk to bring it to a batter, double cream thickness.
Slightly fragile, but they did go lovely and crispy , much more like a crepe than a pancake.
Organix do a pancake mix that is gluten free, wheat free, egg free and milk free - they do 2 types, cinammon and apple I think which is nice and buckwheat which is rather horrible imo. My hubbie likes both (with maple syrup and lemon juice). I think the apple and cinammon would be palatable to kids. You can get this brand in Sainsburys and health food shops amongst other places. You just mix it up with water.
I tried making buckwheat pancakes from scratch - you have to mix them up with the night before to let them bubble up but they were disgusting.
Anyone know anything nice I can do wiith a bag of buckwheat flour ???
Thanks for that, I will check sainsburys out. Isn't buckwheat flour what you make blinis from? I googled it and all I could find were pancake recipes, altho did find this one...
BUCKWHEAT MUFFINS
(Author note: Not what one expects of a muffin, but fulfilling for buckwheat
lovers.)
Makes 12-16 muffins
2 cups buckwheat flour
1 Tablespoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon salt
3 cups water
A sprinkle of brown sesame seeds (roasted) you can omit these, probably not
appropriate for this list
Mix dry ingredients (except sesame seeds). Add water gradually, mixing
thoroughly to make smooth batter. Ladle into oiled (however you prepare pans)
muffin tins--1/2 full. Sprinkle on seasame seeds.
Bake 30-40 minutes at 400 degrees. Muffins are crispy outside, soft inside.
Have you tried Egg replacer, i'm also a ceoliac whos allergic to eggs and milk.
I use it to make cakes to, and it works.
No Bramley, never. What is it and where would I get it from?? When she is 'diagnosed' if that is the word, allergic to the egg white, we were not given any other options that to completely steer clear of egg based food and products. Amazing how many shampoos have egg in them!
Wow Emma Jane I never knew that about shampoo.
You should be able to get egg replacer from any good health shop.
I used to make a pancakey/omletty sort of thing using chick pea flour (aka gram flour). It was nice enough - but a bit savoury. But then I never added any sugar - that could be an option.
Definitely would be worth checking out this sort of thing, if your daughter can't ever eat eggs.
Tyr looking on the internet for the recipe - I made the recipe up, based on something I once ate in India. Then I later discovered that there is a very similar regional dish from around the Nice area in France.
In India, they are sometimes called pudlas. Will try and remember what the Nicoise call them...
sb
Found it: in Nice it's called a "Socca".
sb
Thank you for all of your advice. I have been muddling along making them with just flour, milk, bicarb - just a dash and a splash of lemon juice. By the time the kids have smothered them in golden syrup, sugar and lemon juice, they could be bits of old boot leather and they wouldn't know!
I shall pop into sainsbury's tomorrow to look at their pancake options. I know they produce an eggless cake which I might also pick up to see what she thinks. ;D
I must be getting tired I read your post as Legless pancakes ;D
Add a LARGE splosh of brandy and they are! ;D