Dear Doris, thank you for your most kind comments.
Please do not forget it is PANCAKE DAY today!
English Pancakes.
I get enough practice making these!
What you need:
4 ozs of normal plain flour, sifted.
2 eggs.
7 fl ozs of milk.
3 fl ozs of water.
pinch of salt.
2 ozs of unsalted butter!
The fun starts here:
Sift the flour into a bowl, then make a well in the middle. Add the two eggs and start to whisk in gently in a circle. Then start adding the liquid a bit at a time, don't worry about lumps they soon go.
Keep adding the liquid and whisking, the flour on the outside falls down into the mixture, so keep going till all the liquid has gone. Add a pinch of salt and then whisk around the edges to make sure there is no flour left anywhere. It should be like runny cream.
Heat a frying pan up till hot, then add the butter and swirl round once when melted and hot. With a ladle add some of the the mixture to the center of the pan and swirl till it goes all over, if it doesn't add some more where needed and swirl again. Till the whole base of the pan is covered, with a not too thick layer of the batter!
Then you will see the batter set around the edge of the pan, using a palette knife, go round the edge lifting it, and lift up a bit slightly so you can see if the pancake has browned.
If it has remove form heat and toss the pancake in the air catching it on the other unbrowned side in the pan (hopefully).
If you are not brave enough to do this use two spatulas\frying slices and lift it up and turn it over. Then lift again to check it has browned.
It will slide straight out of the pan onto a plate without any trouble at all.
Then squeeze some lemon juice over it and sprinkle some sugar on it. It is also nice with Tate & Lyle golden syrup, or if you are rich maple syrup.
They are also much used in Britain for savoury pancakes, from Cheese and onion, to beef mince, tomato's, onion, garlic, with a thick sauce.
You simply place the filling in the middle and fold them in half!
Sometimes the first one does not come out to well, but after that they will all come out perfectly, do not add any more butter, they do not need it!
Dead easy, tasty and extremely versatile.
Regards.
Neil.
