to be shocked that anyone buys ready made batter, let alone horrible cold ready-cooked pancakes

[SebbysMum]

Pancakes contain eggs, flour, milk and butter. They require one bowl, one pan and one fork to make. Quick, easy, cheap and fun. Why would anyone want to pay for ready-made, heavily packaged batter or pancakes for tomorrow?

Is this the final proof that part of our population has lost all connection with real food?

Growing up I remember pancake day cooking better than any other evening of food. If kids don't see their parents making pancakes what hope is there that they will grow up feeling able to tackle cooking themselves?

Now come on. Far too mild in your scolding. See here for how it should be done

i will hold my hands up to having aunt bessies at the ready, alng with choc buttons to melt in the middle

I make them with kids all the time. DH has the kids tomorrow as I am in class. He has asked me countless times how to make pancakes.

I bought him some batter.

don't have eggs. Don't have flour as no matter how small a pack I buy it gets wriggly things in within a month and I throw it away. Pre made ones require no bowl, pan or fork!

I didn't even know it's Pancake Day tomorrow.

I don't have eggs or flour in the house, and am out tomorrow night, to learn how to cook fish.

I doubt DH knows it Shrove Tuesday either...and he is Catholic.

You don't have eggs and flour in the house???????

What?????

What?????

Nope.

Tesco Man is coming tomorrow!

My eggs are almost certainly out of date but I figure as they are a "best before" rather than a "use by" it doesnt matter?

Today I cooked some pancakes and the blooming pan stuck to them all, they had lumps, didn't set, tore, burnt every variant really of disaster. I used several mixing bowls, whisks, measuring jugs, screamed at three children in the process of concocting supper (stuffed pancakes). Maybe pancakes need rumination and love, and a special pan.

we usually have the ready made ones
I might cook my own for pancake day but we probably won't have pancakes at all

Phew! Thought you might be some weird freak. Y'know the sort of person who has Moroccan Pickled Lemons but no potatoes.

No YANBU. I imagine those ready made ones taste disgusting.

yanbu
but
I still prefer m&s scotch pancakes to the ones I make sorry!

I'm out of eggs...........and as yet have no located any of my frying pans (U have about 4 ) in the garage (and am out most of tomorrow) I think I may have to succumb to the ready made ones .

As an aside, my dad is a Yorkshire man, my mum from weston-super-mud(mare). When they married he spent years waiting for her to "perfect" the Yorkshire pudding to the standard his older sister made them. He swore she knew how to make Yorkshire pudding like the best of them.

A few years ago she admitted she's been using the pre-mixed batter and later the frozen ones (when they appeared for the first time) for all these years

The ready made batter that is... I've tried those ready made ones and they are like cardboard.

Lol FAQ

I am the master of yorkshire puddings but when it comes to pancake day i have ruined the last 3 and last year as an emergency by stander passed of those little scotch pancakes after i cocked up a pre ready mix! This year i have ready mades to warm in the oven. I have decorating stress on at the moment so its something i dont need to worry about. Sorry i am not a pancake pro if my pre made pancakes offend you.

Whoa there Nappyzone! Those are not "Scotch" pancakes. Those are pancakes. The ones you lot make down south are crepes.

That's what DW says and I have learned not to disagree. I am, after all, only a guest here (albeit of 16 years standing.)

I am more than capable of making pancakes and sometimes on a weekend morning will make a big batch from scratch for breakfast to have with maple syrup. That said, my DC like to have pancakes on school mornings and frankly, we'd rather sleep later than get up early and make pancakes and they love the tesco value ready made ones (29-33p for 6) with a bit of maple syrup. I must be a crap mother for buying them.

FWIW, we're not religious, but have made pancakes from scratch several times on Shrove Tuesday in the past. If the DC come home wanting to make them, guaranteed we'll make them for an after-school snack. From scratch.

Ahhh...you obviously not working tomorrow, followed by a long commute home, with 2 kids to be picked up from an after school club and a toddler to be picked up from a separate nursery. You're obviously not then going to have about 10 minutes to get a hot meal on the table (home made shephers pie, so there), with a whiney toddler trying to climb your legs and demanding to be 'up up' and a DS who has to be out at Scouts about an hour after you get home.

That's why some of us resort to buying in such things. That way, they can enjoy the whole pancake day thing without a stressed mum.

Of course, if it was my day off tomorrow I would be able to make pancakes - but not all of us are in that situation.

That answer your question?

But they take about 5 mins to make...

StealthPolarBear, you need one of these

Whoa there zebra! - i am not from doooooooown south - i am from oooop north and the flat pancakes i bought ready made are pancakes, them other small fat oness are some kind of ermm other fancy pants thing that clearly steals the name pancake as they have other stuff in em - raisins and lemon and stuff....

Really - you can make and cook and serve pancakes enough pancakes to feed 5 people in 5 minutes?

Because I certainly can't.

YANBU - patronising and sanctimonious though!