One of Andrew’s favourite days of the year – over the years I must have made hundreds of plain thin pancakes to be smothered with sugar and lemon juice - and of course they had to be made one at a time – no advance preparation of pancakes to be kept warm or reheated.
Yesterday I helped out with Rock Club at church. Rock club is an after-school club for Key
Stage Two children and yesterday one of the activities was to make and eat pancakes
so extra help was needed - one to one for cooking and tossing the
pancakes. The children made traditional
pancakes and Scotch pancakes.
Scotch
pancakes require the use of a griddle, one piece of kitchen equipment I have
never used. The griddle was the persona
l property of C who leads the group. I told
her that I thought I would invest in a griddle as it produced such good results. She explained that she had obtained her
griddle from a charity shop and she considered that it has been one of her best
buys. So now I am going to be scouring
the local charity shops to see if they have any griddles for sale. It must be a traditional cast iron one. If they haven’t any griddles for sale I shall
use Amazon – they have just the sort I want.
Pancakes at home
F was out at an evening meeting and B didn’t finish
her shift until 8pm so we ate late last night and I cheated on the pancakes. I bought ready-made pancakes from the local
supermarket which just needed a quick reheat in the microwave and then filled
them with apple and blackberry fruit pie filling. Then they were served with good
quality vanilla ice-cream.
Quick, easy, delicious – but not very healthy – so perhaps
once a year is often enough.
