Dear CLUSIANA, I thought you were referring to; Primula vulgaris which is the wild primrose and our wild cowslips, Primula veris which are getting rare and are said to be the favourite flowers of Nightingales!
Then you have Polyanthus and Auriculas, or my favourite candelabra primroses!
Wild primroses can be found in abundance in Hampshire and in many other Counties, Cowslips not so much so anymore!
These are wild primroses or primrose vulgaris. They do however have a tendency to cross with other things! Sometimes they can be more creamy yellow.

These are Polyanthus.

Candelabra primroses.

For Auriculas please see here http://www.auriculaandprimula....
Regards.
Neil.

Dear Vicki, how nice to have pleased you!
I so hope you are well and making pancakes as well as shortbread!
Someone is in for a treat!
Kindest Regards.
Neil.

Hello Neal
Thank you for the beautiful pics and the nightingales. Your country is really the paradise of primroses. In France we can still find spots of primula veris in some places but not so many primula vulgaris. They also are disappearing of the landscape.
Thank you again for your very interesting cubit.
C

Dear CLUSIANA, it has been a pleasure speaking to you as I come to France quite often! I love Brittany, especially the fish and shellfish!
Although i have run out of Calvados.
Hope to see you again. Although i will try to put a picture from Exbury on for you, and we have the man at Kew who puts pictures on his own threads here!
Kindest Regards.
Neil.

Dear CLUSIANA, two pictures from Exbury Gardens in the New Forest in Hampshire.
The first a normal one, but look at the primroses by the lake in the second one!
Regards.
Neil.

But you surely have some 'Prune' left Neil. It is a pleasure speaking to you too. Came back from Brittany in October. Love it too and fish and shellfish.. I am in Aquitania, South West. Thank you for the Exbury picture to come and could you please be kind enough to give me the link of the thread of the man from Kew? Sorry I forgot to thank you for the link 'auriculaorg.uk'. I am visiting this beautiful website very often, dreaming of all the beautiful prmula, primroses, species and hybrids you have and so difficult to find here.
Kind regards
C.

Dear CLUSIANA, there are four threads all about Kew through the seasons from last year and starting again this year. Richard is the propagator of Orchids at Kew.
Please see this: http://cubits.org/Neil/forums/...
Regards.
Neil.

Thank you Neal
C.

I do love the primrose pictures. We always made our pancakes rise by separating the eggs & beating up the whites. No rising agent. No flowers here as yet either. Blaah!!! suposed to be spring?

Dear Lucy, I have never heard of separating the eggs! I am glad you like primroses as well. A Lady after my own heart, and to be told by a nice French Lady we in the UK have the best in the world is something.
Regards.
Neil.

After looking at the photos you've posted, if I had to describe heaven, looks like your part of the world is just about there

I, too have read that when making pancakes or waffles, to separate the eggs and beat the egg whites stiff.

Dear Vicki, that is not the English way of doing them. They are after all like a batter or Yorkshire Pudding mix, and the eggs when put into the flour and mixed in make them rise. If you were to beat the egg whites there would be a lot of air as in a meringue, and it would collapse when it hit searingly hot butter!
I have just made lots of them and got one of them, as Sarah ate the rest!
I have also asked Sarah about this beating egg whites and she has never heard of it. She is a trained Chef and worked in French Restaurants as a well as others, and she agrees with me a she used to make Crepes by the Hundred. In an English pancake they would collapse totally!
What is a waffle, the only waffle I know is what the politicians spout! To waffle is an English word!
Regards.
Neil.

Separating was my father's trick & he was a good cook, trained by his Canadian mother.

ah but...it DOES result in more of a failing souffle kind of thing than a real pancake. See, it's a dichtomy. Have you not heard the expression: flat as a pancake?

When separating and whisking works really well (not considering spousal relationships) is to make lovely fluffy scrambled eggs; they can be delightful buttered afterward.

But when you add fluffy egg white to 4 oz of plain flour, that would make them go flat! The same as added them to hot butter!
Regards.
Neils.

The pancakes my father made were not souffles, just not flat,

Good Morning Neil,

A waffle is kinda/sorta like a pancake but made in it's own cookware called a waffle iron. I usually add pecans. You can make them savory as well.

I tried to link you to a photo but it looked weird when I pasted it. If you will google an image of a waffle, it will show you the waffle and the waffle iron.

Even though I have read to beat the egg whites for pancakes or waffles, I don't remember ever doing so.

I've only done it for meringue.

vic

You're right Lucy, I was just teasing you; many folks like a fluffier pancake, I typically just prefer them thin and flat (almost more like a crepe or blintz) then rolled around something. Ours were filled with a little cream cheese mashed with a bit of orange marmalade. Inky loves them that way. I make them of a more savory type with veggies or if I have ripe avocados to use.

Hi Vicki: seems we cross-posted. Neil: do you really not make waffles? I thought you were kidding Vicki! Yum, they are so good! Vicki: I don't make them often but do have a wonderful old waffle iron from down through the family, do you have an older one too?

To waffle!
It isn't dirty or rude.
The verb to waffle means to talk at length around a subject without ever getting to the point.
Regards.
Neil.