Classic Pancakes on Shrove Tuesday
Today is Shrove Tuesday, or 'Holy shit it's Pancake Day' to us atheists. There are hundreds of wonderful and interesting pancake recipes, but I always prefer to go with what I have handy so the recipe I'm posting today is an extremely simple one which you can modify to include whatever you prefer.
Plain pancakes can be served either sweet or savoury. The sugar content in this recipe doesn't impact on their suitability for savoury dishes. In fact, I had a few of these for breakfast with poached egg, fried bacon and holandaise sauce, then a couple this afternoon with fresh fruit and whipped cream.
Of course your taste will vary, and you can choose to include fruit like grated apple, fresh blueberries or whatever straight into the mixture if you prefer.
Makes approximately 10 pancakes.
Ingredients
2 cups plain flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
2 tablespoons caster sugar
1 1/2 cups milk (or a little extra to taste)
2 eggs at room temperature
1 lemon (zest only)
60g butter, melted, cooled
spray olive oil, or extra melted butter for cooking
Method
Sift flour, sugar and baking powder into a large bowl.
Whisk eggs until lightly fluffy, whisk in milk and melted butter until combined. Add to flour mixture, gently whisking until smooth.
Mix in grated lemon zest, then cover and stand batter for 15 minutes.
Heat a non-stick frying pan over low heat. Lightly spray pan with olive oil spray, or brush pan with a little extra butter. Pour 1/4 cup of batter into center of pan and allow to spread naturally. Cook until bubbles start to appear on surface then turn and cook until golden.
Repeat with remaining batter, greasing pan between pancakes.
Serving
Serve warm, topped with icing sugar, preserved or fresh fruit, maple syrup, honey, whipped cream or anything else you like.
I also encourage you to try savoury options like bacon and hungarian salami with warm camembert cheese, or fried ham and spreadable philadelphia cream cheese topped with halved cherry tomatoes.
Have fun, and enjoy Pancake Day.
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When did you post this? I guess I should have checked your blog a bit earlier today. Oh well, I think I’m all pancaked out anyway.
We did the pancake thing at work today, they were pretty good! In an alternate life I would have been quite happy in a mobile pancake van.
I admit it, I posted this pretty late in the day… I guess I needed to eat stacks of pancakes to gather some blogging energy.
Never fear, every day is pancake day.
Just a quick suggestion — I am allergic to eggs (and I am a lacto-vegetarian), so for other, similar folks who can’t have eggs, you can use heavy whipping cream as an alternative. It usually works like a charm!
And oh, you could try adding bananas to the mix and it gets even better.