Dear Tom
How are your stews and leftovers going? I thought as it is Shrove Tuesday this week that you might like to add pancakes to your 'to cook' list.
Pancakes are made of basic ingredients, cooked in a basic way and are basically fool proof... unless you start pancake races with your neighbours, toss them high enough to stick them to the ceiling or forget that you have left one cooking in the pan... like I said, fool proof.
The origins of shrove Tuesday and pancake day are to use up stores of fats, sugars and flours before Ash Wednesday when you fast for lent... I personally couldn't give up any of those things for lent, but shall be making pancakes never the less!
What you fill it with is up to you, mine will be stuffed with ice cream, sliced strawberries and topped with homemade butterscotch sauce, yum!
Ingredients
4oz/100g plain flour
1 egg, beaten
1/2 pint milk
pinch of salt
small knob of butter to fry with
Method
Put the flour into a mixing bowl, with the salt
Put the egg into the milk and whisk together
Pour the milky mixture a small amount at a time into the flour, mix really well to get a smooth batter
Pour into a jug (To make easier pouring into frying pan)
Heat a frying pan over a medium heat, melt the butter, add enough batter to just about cover the bottom of the pan very thinly
Its cooked when it starts crisping at the edges and slides in the pan, toss, flip, or carefully turn over to briefly brown the second side
Done
Enjoy
Think you'll enjoy this one
Yours, toppings planning,
Ruth
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