It's Pancake Day! Get the kids cooking...
Find a recipe that is easy. I also heard that adding a bit of mild flavoured vegetable oil to the batter helps to stop it sticking. I presume that (and the flavour) accounts for the butter in the following simple recipe from Xanthe Clay.Who doesn't like pancakes? Thin and crispy or American?Uni students often don't have scales or tablespoons (or know where they are). They usually drink tea and/or coffee and eat cereal. So measurements need to be in dessertspoons and mugs! Half a pint of milk = about an ordinary sized mugful.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/8366615/How-to-make-a-basic-pancake-batter.htmlYou learn to know the consistency and how to adjust it...it is easier to go from thicker to thinner! You only really need three ingredients.1 large egg4 heaped dessertspoons of plain flourabout a mugful of milk (UHT will do and you can use the rest for cocoa or custard or more pancakes because you won't taste it's UHT)(and a little oil to oil the pan which you need to have hot before you pour the single-cream-consistency batter in)What's your favourite filling?Mmm - breakfast lunch tea supper ANY TIME AT ALL!PS There are loads of recipes and videos online so you can go for a designer Yotam Ottolenghi recipe or a junior school one!www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/shrove.htmlPPS I have seen a uni student eating cereal with a teaspoon but there is a limit to the help you can give!
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