Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Eating and Drinking => Cooking, Storing and Preserving => Topic started by: arugula on March 04, 2011, 11:15
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So, with Pancake Day approaching fast do you make pancakes that day? What do you put in or on them? Has anyone got some interesting or unusual fillings to tell us about?
I quite like them with the traditional lemon juice and sugar, but I'm also quite partial to something like a nice creamy chicken and mushroom filling or something gooey like chocolate and banana.
:)
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Four thin pancakes with traditional* sugar and lemon for me, a couple each for the rest of the family and a couple of dozen made to put in the freezer.
I will have two pans on the go! :)
* I think other toppings and fillings are crepe. ::)
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Brian likes traditional lemon and sugar, and I usually have homemade jam, but many moons ago when I worked in Paris for a week, they introduced me to pear and chocolate crepes!! Double yummy!!!!!
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On Pancake day it has to be lemon and sugar, but I do like mascarpone and spinach pancakes for tea :)
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I'm giving lemon & sugar a miss this year.
Going to try sugar & lemon instead.
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freshly squeezed orange juice and sugar for me :D
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ah, sugar and lemon juice for me - but hold the sugar.....
A few years ago we had a party on shrove Tuesday and for duff we fed our guests a cheat's version of crepes Georgettes - pancakes filled with confectioners' custard (creme patisserie for the posh folks I think) mixed with shredded fresh pineapples, all assembled en masse in a heatproff dish, sprinked with sugar and lemon juice (oh, PLJ actually) and slapped under a really hot grill for a few mins just before serving. Absolutely gorgeous, dead easy (cos we built them all that afternoon needing jsut the grill flash), quite impressive but felt rather fattening!
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Sugar and lemon for me too. OH not a fan though. :(
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Some nice alternative ideas, so far and lots of traditionalists! :D In both my local supermarkets on the pancake mix and plastic lemon stands ::) this year they are displaying syrup. What is the world coming to? :ohmy: :D
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Start off with chilli con carne filling and end with Nutella - have to have a sugar and lemon juice as well - it's traditional!
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Everybody at work is going for golden syrup.
Someone mentioned doing a savoury first course with tuna, cheese and crisps ::)
I didn't realise you could have savoury fillings until my first year at Uni. I was surprised to say the least when people started piling ham and cheese on :lol:
I always revert to sugar and lemon, it's what I grew up with
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I do like lemon and sugar and agree it is the traditional way but I also like..
Fresh fruit and ice cream.
Banana and chocolate spread.
Golden syrup.
Ooooh, I want some now!
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More different ideas! :D
I asked OH if he would like pancakes and if so what on them. Lemon and sugar (with an of course expression on his face :D). I said you can't just have lemon and sugar pancakes for tea. I'll do some soup first as I've done before. Have you? Yes, for the past few years! ::) ::) :D
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I remember spending several minutes debating this with my hubbie last year. He couldn't see why he couldn't just have pancakes for dinner, with syrup or lemon and honey - no savoury fillings in sight. When I pointed out that it was hardly a balanced meal and didn't contain any fruit or veg he patiently explained that lemon was a fruit.
Bless.
:nowink:
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On Pancake Day, we accept that balance in the diet comes from the other meals that day!!
Sugar & lemon, maple syrup (not golden), jam, chocolate spread, bananas, stewed fruit if we have any - or any combinations of the above will be available.
I fry pancakes as fast as I can in 2 pans, the family help to cook & toss their own and we all stand around the kitchen cooking and pigging out on pancakes.
I've never managed to make too much batter!
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Yes it can turn into a standing around in the kitchen meal, can't it? :D
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I'm doing scotch pancakes with butter and jam or honey for about 15 people this year but we normally do the thin pancakes with lemon and sugar.
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I carry around a 'jif' lemon in case we have 'crepes' - not quite the same without the lemon - Get odd looks though!
My boys love Bannofee - ( Banana with Confiture du lait)
Crepe Suzette for me though :-)
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I'm going out to France in the morning for a week playing in the mountains so will be having real french crepes for shrove tuesday.
Yum yum :D
I may also have to have some of the chocolat ancienne (warm pure melted chocolate) and possibly some Genepi. :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
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I'm going out to France in the morning for a week playing in the mountains so will be having real french crepes for shrove tuesday.
Yum yum :D
I may also have to have some of the chocolat ancienne (warm pure melted chocolate) and possibly some Genepi. :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
sounds interesting!! Had to look up Genepi!! - Is it describable! ( Love the sound of the chocolat ancienne though - ) Do you do Alpes or Pyrenees?
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Alps, just up from Annecy, in between La Clusaz and Le Grand Bornand. They've had nice dumps of snow in the last couple of weeks so hoping for a perfect week of good ground conditions (and piste conditions) but some lovely March sunshine.
Genepi is an alcoholic drink, usually a liquor, made from some of the local alpine plants. It tastes fruity, flowery and with a hint of honey but isn't that sweet. It has the habit of making you fall over though if you enjoy it too much as it's pretty powerful stuff!
:wacko:
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I'm with pigeonpie = ice-cream makes a great change ;)
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I remember always having the 'Jubilee Pancakes" at Little Chef - Black Cherry Pie filling with vanilla Ice Cream.. yummy ( when I was 10!!!!) May go for fresh or canned cherries rather than the pie filling though!
Genepi is an alcoholic drink, usually a liquor, made from some of the local alpine plants. It tastes fruity, flowery and with a hint of honey but isn't that sweet. It has the habit of making you fall over though if you enjoy it too much as it's pretty powerful stuff!
:wacko:
Certainly sounds different. Have a great time - On and off piste!
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He will be having pancakes with corned beef hash, then either pancakes with sugar and lemon or golden syrup :tongue2: :D :D :D
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OH just told me he ate 13 pancakes one shrove tuesday when he was a lad :ohmy: that will explain why he can't see his feet anymore. Kids desperate to have them with golden syrup, I quite like the sound of banana and chocolate, he wants cheddar cheese and chocolate.
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Put out all the choices on the worktop, start frying, leave them to fill their own!! Let your budding chefs try cheese & golden syrup if they want - they won't die of it & will learn from the experience!! Call it teaching decision making.......or encouraging self-expression.....never admit it's 'cos you can't face saying "no you can't" one more time.
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...........cheddar cheese and chocolate.
Not sure that would be my 1st choice :tongue2: :lol:
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...........cheddar cheese and chocolate.
Not sure that would be my 1st choice :tongue2: :lol:
I used to think the same when we were first together but now I often have cream cheese and nutella sandwiches and they are yummy!!! :)
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Speaking from the land of maple syrup, you can guess what I'll be topping my pancakes with. That and couple of raspberries.
this year is slightly different; rather than make my usual crepes batter, I'll be adding some finely sieved ricotta cheese and Meyer lemon juice (sweeter than regular lemons) to the batter, and then topping them with syrup and raspberries. Can't wait!
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I'm the only one in our house that likes pancakes so I have just read this thread with a slight pang of envy (and a rumbly tummy!)...
Sigh!
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whats wrong with cooking pancakes just for you? Wish my oh didn't like them then I could have them all to myself :D
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There are some great different ideas in here.... for another day though, as I have my "standard" batter ready to go with the lemon juice and sugar. After a good bowl of home-made soup, of course! ;) :D
Oh F-L! :( Just saw your reply before I posted mine... Make yourself some! :D Or better still, pretend those moreish eggy, chili-spiced crumpets are pancakes.... :D
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I'm the only one in our house that likes pancakes so I have just read this thread with a slight pang of envy (and a rumbly tummy!)...
Sigh!
You know where the frying pan is, get at `em. :) You don`t even need to share!
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Well I hope everybody enjoys their pancakes, Paul is cooking his as I type. As it contains my most 'hated' ingredient I shall not be indulging and never have so cannot comment .
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I made some batter and cooked a pancake, but was too thick when I ate it, so I added a drop more milk and cooked another pancake, and ate it......still not quite right so I repeated the process.
I finally got it right on the 4th attempt with the last of the batter They were yum though :lol:
A very good job I only started off with a small quantity :blush:
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My parents enjoyed theirs this evening filled with vanilla ice-cream and topped with a small spoonful of strawberry jam.
No indigestion either (for a change!!) ;)
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I settled on a compromise. I made batter, but without sugar, and we had giant puffed up oven pancakes (yorkies) with stew. With the laft over batter I made pancakes and presented OH with four syrupy ones with vanilla ice-cream, even though he doesn't like pancakes. He says he's a convert! :D