to not understand premade 'pancake mix'?

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Pancakes: eggs, milk, water, flour - simples?

I know some people can't cook, but if anything, cooking them in the pan is the hardest bit! I was a bit shocked to walk into my local Tesco today and find that they had loads of eggs and flour in stock but had sold completely out of the premade packets......?

Food snob?

And yet again Honey, I'm with you! Although have no idea how to live with the guilt of buying readymade pancake mix......(wanders off to google 'hairshirts')

Ah yes, the guilt...however shall we live with it?

Anyone for pancakes??????

the in do fuck off.

Gosh I made my own pcs tonight, give me a great big fat medal. I'm am the best mother in the world ever.

Did you serve the hm pc with erm, sugar, syrup, nutella..................hahahahahahaha

Oooh! Thanks! mines with lemon juice.. though oddly I have no fresh lemons, and twill be shop-bought...

I'm from Yorkshire and have never made a yorks pudding.standing joke in the family. Called mum and she gave random measurements "add egg,then same amount of flour,then a bit of milk" wtf is that?
Now becoming a bit of an issue with dd1 as to why I won't do them. I cook far more complicated meals but can't tackle pancakes.

I made pancakes from scratch. Doesn't mean I think im better than someone who uses ready made mix for this uneccessary meal with no nutritional value even when made from scratch. Seriously it's like berating someone for using a shop bought Christmas pudding

Dd1 can tell an M +S yorks pud against a .

lady, only if they're proper homemade ones. Wouldn't want to poison myself with any more of that shop-bought rubbish.

Besides, I have lots of repenting to do. Good thing tomorrow is Ash Wednesday.

Hifi - my mum is the same - gives very vague meaurements using the old same worn set of spoons - and does fantastic yorkshires! I CAN do yorkshires - but if am doing a roast, prefer to stick some aunty bessies in 5 mins at the end! Oh - and I hate black pudding too... :o

I did make my own and had real lemon. I like cooking though. Really like cooking ...so it was a pleasure.

I did smirk the other day at McCains Ready Baked jacket potatoes.

I saw my first ever box of pancake mix in the shop yesterday "Just add water and eggs" it said. So it's flour & dried milk? I thought, and checked the ingredients ... Yup!!

Mind you, I'm crap at batter and buy frozen yorkshire puds

A ready baked jacket potato would be great for someone like myself who fancies one on dinner break yet has ten to fifteen minutes to eat.... Why are people obsessed with being the food police these days???

Stop being demanding Honey, and come and cut the packet open whilst I scratch my back, this bloody shirt is driving me mad......shall we push the boat out and have them with Jif lemon and a so lodge of Nutella?....

Or even a splodge of Nutella......!

Ah well, if you've got nutella....maybe just a little. :)

Plenty of time for penance tomorrow.

Ah Nutella is horrid - but - Golden syrup now..... :o

I don't get the pancake mixes and there is nothing smug about it. I buy other convenience things ready made when they save time, puff pastry and bread for example. I just don't see that it saves time, granted the fill the bottle with water may do, but we are talking a saving of about 60 seconds.

I can see that it may help if you were skint and had no eggs or flour.

I used pancake mix, and I'm a Food Tech teacher, so shoot me. . . . . I had two Dcs under 4 wanting to help and half the kitchen packed away waiting for a plasterer, so pouring water in a bottle and getting the kids to shake it solved all sorts of issues.

I'm also known to use ready meals and pre-chopped veg towards the end of a term when I'm too knackered to cook a meal after a 13 hour day and an hour's commute.

I think some of you here need to get over yourselves somewhat. . . the important part for me was speaking to DS1 (almost 4) about Lent and what we would give up and why. I'd be interested to know how many people with perfect pancakes from scratch could say the same.

I managed to weigh flour and discuss lent.

I would buy shelled coconut. Cracking and ten removing the shell from a coconut is an arse of a job and does take time. Weighing flour does not.