to be excited its pancake day

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we have them quite often, but to know that this evening all I have to do is cover my table with loads of toppings, fry a few crepes and pancakes and THAT IS ALL - dinner sorted!!! I am smiling already!

Thats exactly how you make a packet mix as well.

Someone remind me how I talked myself into having 3 three year olds and another four under-11's into 'pancake tea at my house'??

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We make them in advance and keep warm on a plate over a pan of very hot water. Otherwise we can't keep up with the speed at which they get scoffed.

I use 4 heaped tbsp plain flour
1 egg
0.5 pint milk

No weighing scales needed. I can make pancakes, and I cannot cook. I like to wipe out the pan with some kitchen roll after each pancake.

My recipe says do not use butter, but I always do because it tastes better, as long as you are careful not to burn it. Does everyone else use butter?

For american pancakes I use Nigella's recipe

They are yummy (from her book below)

?225g plain flour
?1 tablespoon baking powder
?Pinch of salt 1 teaspoon sugar
?2 large eggs, beaten
?30g butter, melted and cooled
?300ml milk butter for frying

Method1.The easiest way to make these is to put all the ingredients into a blender and blitz. But if you do mix up the batter by hand in a bowl, make a well in the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar, beat in the eggs, melted butter and milk, and transfer to a jug: it's much easier to pour the batter into the pan than to spoon it. I like to leave the batter for 20 minutes before using it; and you may then want to add more milk to the mixture if you're frying in the blini pan, so that it runs right to the edges.
2.When you cook the pancakes, all you need to remember is that when the upper side of the pancake is blistering and bubbling it's time to cook the second side, and this needs only about 1 minute, if that.
3.I get 11 blini-pan-sized pancakes out of this, maybe 16 silver-dollar-sized ones on the griddle.

You are reasonable to be excited. I am!

Bumbling they sound yummy - i'll give them a try!

I may be being a little daft here, but is there a difference between a crepe and a pancake?

YADNBU, I am so excited it is pancake day, I just can't wait for dinner! Delia Smith's recipe is easy and hasn't gone wrong for me yet.

I love pancakes. Cannot wait for my supper!

did mine yesterday as am not around at tea time today.

they were pretty good

I use olive oil until it is smokin' and tip the excess into a cup (and reuse for the next pancake)

gets viciously hot, but smells good, and the pancakes cook really quickly

I love pancakes so am looking forward to flipping them in my new frying pan. Last years all got stuck to the pan.

Regarding the difficulty in making US pancakes here in the UK, the problem lies with the difference in baking powders. The US style is "double acting" (don't ask me what this means - just know that this means that my recipe makes fluffy pancakes in the US and the same measurements make a flatter pancake here in the UK). I find that you can compensate for the difference by increasing the amount of baking powder used.

Pancake recipe is so simple and doesn't need any weighing:

1 cup flour
1 cup milk (I prefer buttermilk)
1 tsp baking powder (US) or 1.5-2 tsp UK baking powder
2 eggs
1 dollop of oil
a pinch of salt.

Super easy.

Crepes have a different proportion of milk/egg/flour than pancakes - more liquid for the same amount of egg and flour.

I've had 4 already - yum! Soon heading to the airport, otherwise would have made a few more.

Can I make the pancakes in advance and heat them up in the microwave or something? Have a v tricky baby 4.30 onwards and I think he would cry the whole time I was making them if I wait til then! I was thinking wrap in tin foil? surely it would work?

YANBU pancake day is ace.

my friends recipe for scotch pancakes is fail safe - esp since i dont like those large crepes - these make smaller ones - prob more like american ones.

100g self raising flour
50g caster sugar
quarter teaspoon salt
15g melted butter
1 egg
1 teaspoon of baking powder
approx 8 tbsp milk

she mixes it by making a well in the middle but i just mix everything together and its still ok.

probably can make 3 or 4 small pancakes in a pan - they are so delicious!!

We were having a pancake party tonight, until DS2 came out in chicken pox yesterday.

Still, more pancakes for us (I bought 15 eggs yesterday). And probably boiled eggs for lunch!

YANBU - I've been looking forward to it for days (not much going on round here at the moment).

Mmmmm, might pop out and get some proper maple syrup later.

I love it, love it, love it!
Lemon and sugar is the only topping for me though, don't hold with all this fancy malarky with fruit, maple syrup etc. My pancakes are old skool.

(wanders off to practice pancake flipping, wondering if it would be wrong to wean 14 week old DS onto pancakes today)

We had pancake day yesterday as DS is going to a friend's after school. I bought a big pancake pan in France last year so we have them quite often anyway.

I do a savoury one first; cook one side, flip it over, put a slice of ham in the middle, add an egg (I break mine up) and grated cheese on top. Fold in two sides so they meet in the middle and then fold in the other two to create a parcel. Delicious. And one is enough if you follow it with a sweet one. DC have nutella, but DH & I have lemon & sugar.

scotch pancakes also known as Drop scones!

my pancake recipe (proper, british pancakes) is from Jamie oliver:

1 egg
1cup plain flour
1 cup milk

throw it into a jug/bowl and whisk, or into a bottle and shake.
leave it to settle for half an hour, then stir/shake again, and fry it.
make sure the oil is really hot before you start.
think it makes 4/5 pancakes.

Sixlostmonkeys I need that recipe! Or do i just melt the mars bars?

DC gave me a list of things to get for pancakes tonight! They can't wait for tea tonight.