Pancake Day
 

Is anybody going to make pancakes tomorrow? I think I'm going to give them a ago this year, but proper ones not the horrible American style ones.

I can't be arsed myself, but is anyone giving anything up for Lent?

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Pancakes.

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Lent

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me too...:rofl:

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Lentement, Madame.

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Thanks for playing. :)

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I made some 'proper' pancakes not so long back (as opposed to the packet mixed butter and maple syrup covered ones that we normally have for breakfast). Complete with lemon juice and sugar on the table.

You should have seen the look on hubby and his sons face - it was like I was asking them to eat their own grandparents. :huh:

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Proper pancakes :wub:. I'll be making those with the lemon juice and sugar too. The problem is the husband. He can eat as many as I can make. I have to hide mine in the warmer.

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Our pancake day gets rolled over to Wednesday as it's Parade night at cadets on Tuesday.

Proper ones, lemon and sugar.

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:blink:, you're welcome, i think

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Yep doing proper pancakes tomorrow... got the golden syrup bought!

Giving up my new years resolutions for lent!

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Golden syrup???

Do you put that in the batter or on the pancakes? Whose tradition is that? Because I've never come across it before.

I make a batter from milk, butter flour and eggs, and serve the pancakes with castor sugar and lemon juice.

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I'd forgotten it was Shrove Tuesday tomorrow. Just checked my eggs in the fridge and they had to be eaten by Saturday. Oops....made a batch of fluffy American style pancakes yesterday for breakfast and nobody was sick, suppose I had better get some fresh eggs in the morning.;)

Lemon juice and caster sugar is the only way to eat proper pancakes :D

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You're both weird and obviously southern.

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Yup proper pancakes tomorrow! Am looking at an eat clean for Lent- kick start diet as an considering, but only considering ATM, entering one of those fitness figure comps.

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Without blowing smoke up yer bum my love - go for it - you have a schmoking hot body :thumbup:

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Mmm now that's a pleasant metaphor xxxx

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I was born on Pancake Day. My dad and brothers never forgave me (they didn't get their pancakes that year).

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You serve it on the pancakes.

It was always tradition round our way...and a pretty damn good one! And yes I'll be making the proper ones and not the weird massive ones!

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i always make them fresh and we have sugar on top too
sometimes chocolate sauce and bananas nice x

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Yip we are having proper pancakes with cinnamon sugar (South African tradition), I will open a can (or tin, don't know which is the correct word :confused:) of peaches, and whisked up fresh cream to have it with the pancakes too.

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I had no idea that there was a north-south divide in the pancake tradition. I wonder where the cut off point is. Is golden syrup with pancakes contiguous with the Pork-pie and Tunis cake at Christmas zone, I wonder, or is it further north, into the salty porridge and IrnBru zone?

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I was born and raised on the Isle of Wight and we put goldon syrup on our pancakes. I suspect the divide is more stuck up/each to their own than north/south. Perhaps we could look at accents and, maybe, those with RP accents would prefer lemon and sugar, while the rest would prefer whatever tastes good.:p

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Nah mate, we aint never 'ad no syrup so it aint just the toffs what goes for lemon and sugar.

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Our family grew up on lemon/sugar and we didn't have RP accents. The pancakes and their toppings are quite a contrast to the stuff sold at IHOP and other breakfast places here in Canada. Most Canadians find the pancakes discussed on this forum to be very similar to crepes.

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I agree and, if the truth be known, I prefer NA pancakes:p

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They are. What we describe as a pancake is a crepe. What Canadians describe as a pancake is closer to a dropped scone.

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I've never eaten a Canadian pancake, but my mother used to make "Scotch pancakes", which were thicker and smaller than a usual pancake, and we used to eat them with syrup, but never on pancake day.

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:confused:

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Yes, I'd already got the impression you are quite confused, 4Bells. Have you considered seeking treatment?

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Oh yes I know exactly how to remedy it.


How is your syrup dementia ?

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Up north you put parkin and whippets on them.

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We had Yorkshire Puddings on pancake day, filled with golden syrup.

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They sound rather nice.

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That was always dessert after Sunday Dinner if we had any left :thumbup:

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My mum used to do something similar with jam in them.

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Pancakes in this house tonight.

Not giving up anything for Lent, life's too short :)

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It will be with that attitude. ;)

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I'll be making pancakes, lemon & sugar, syrup or apple cinnamon, its all good chez mois.

My wife makes the best thick fluffy north american style blueberry pancakes, but for "proper" crepe style thin ones, she passes the responsibility to me. My kids dont care either way.

I dont get the hostility to thick pancakes though (unless you are doing them wrong?), to be honest Ive never met a pancake that I didnt like.


As for lent, I imagine the catholic contingent under my roof will be giving up something, no idea what though.

Did yorkshire pudding on Saturday with the roast. On the barbeque naturally:unsure:

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Just had 'em for pud. Filled with nutella and chopped banana, for the extra indulgence, add a little honey. :nod: