I love making pancakes - I think it was the first thing I learnt to cook from scratch myself. I remember watching Peter Duncan making them on Blue Peter and insisting on being allowed to have a go, and I made them all by myself without any help. They're the easiest thing in the world to make, and I never measure or weigh the ingredients, just keep adding flour and milk to the eggs til it gets to the consistency I want. I dread to think what's in the packet mixes - partially hydrogenated stuff, emulsifiers, lecithin (whatever that is), E numbers... none of it necessary.

I have followed Delia's pancake receipie for the past twenty years and never had a bad one.

I like mine filled with ice cream and black cherries. Every pancake day we say " We should have these more often"! but we never do


http://www.thesimsresource.com/artists/cariadbach/

That's sooooooooooooooooo funny

in a world of instant nosh - i imagine this lil' ol' lady being the last defender of home cooking - for the reply to be opened with 'ffs'

that's just so so funny picture

I never undesrstand why people buy ready pancake mix.
If you buy it you usually have to add milk in any case

All you need to make pancakes is flour, egg, and milk.

Therefore all shop-bought pancake mix contains is flour and egg-powder!!
In other words, very expensive flour!

Friend of mine (a chef) once told me a very simple recipe:

to one egg use three tablespoons of flour (or 2,5 for less floury taste)

add a pinch of salt for both savoury and sweet pancakes; add a little sugar for sweet ones

add milk to to make the mixture liquid

add a little sparkling water to make the pancakes go really fluffy

really easy!

I love pancakes and make my own easy peasy
(makes 12)
100g white flour
1 egg
150ml milk
150ml water
1 teaspoon olive oil for greasing the pan

I do mine by eye, this is a recipe I pulled off a site I normally use for straight forward recipes

I normally eat about 6 I am a pig

You need This one

What you English call pancakes, is what we Scots call crumpets.

I want to have a crepe! (why does that sound rude?)

What the difference anyway? Not keen on traditional thick pancakes..they go all gloopy in my gob...but savory French crepes with ham and cheese....mmmmmmmmmmmm

What d'you call crumpets then, you strange, foreign person

I ordered pancakes in Scotland once...and got pikelets. That's confusing!! Wonder what I'd get if I order pikelets?

Crumpets are what you call pancakes.
Never heard of pikelets. Are you sure you were in Scotland?

I was in Stranraer..what are pikelets? Erm...like griddlescones...i.e tiny , thick pancakes with jam/fruit and cream:

http://www.readersdigest.com.au/glob...B_pikelets.gif.

So..do that ^^ resemble a Scottish pancake???

wiki says:

Pikelet can refer to either:

In Australia, New Zealand, and the English Midlands and parts of the north, a small, thick colonial-style pancake, known in parts of Britain as a drop-scone or Scotch pancake. See Pancake.
A British regional dialect word variously denoting a flatter variant on crumpet or muffin. See Crumpet.
A Pikelet was once part of traditional Welsh teas within the mining communities of the valleys and is a sweet version of an English crumpet 2

The name 'pikelet' is thought to be derived from the word 'piglet'.

^^ Hmm...we were taught that pikelet's were names so as it's what gypsys had for breakfast!

They do a bit.......Scotch pancakes are thicker tho'.

They're just like your English pancakes.

Asda do lovely giant crumpets.

Pikelets are flat crumpets - I used to buy them in M&S when I lived UUP North

Ok, for the sake of English-Scottish relations ...if I were to walk into a cafe in Scotland and ordered " A crumpet"..would I recieve:

http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thu...02_crumpet.jpg

or

http://www.omlet.co.uk/images/perfect_pancake.gif


My family are moving to Scotland you see...and I don't want to come a cropper in the any pancake/crumpet scenarios

Meanwhile,lets enjoy some gratuitously stupid pancake photos:

http://blogs.citizen-times.com/blogs...cake_bunny.jpg

http://www.omlet.co.uk/images/olney_pancakes.gif

You would more than likely receive the 2nd pic.

Yuck to the 1st pic........they're also known as crumpets up here. Vile things they are too. Confused? You will be.

Awwww @ the wee bunny.........LOL is that you in the other pic?

Nope, but here's you making a small pancake yesterday:

http://ec.europa.eu/enlargement/arch...s_original.jpg

I told you never to show that pic of me. That's not a sodding pancake.......it's a CRUMPET.

Those remind me of toasted muffins!

These are English muffins.......& I would call them crumpets (English)

Just to clear up any confusion, this is definitely crumpet:

http://www.mourinhodiaries.co.uk/pic...mourinho56.jpg

He looks a tad grumpy.

Grumpy crumpet = Grumpet