Shrove Tuesday - Who is making pancakes?!

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I am! Or at least I'll try. I have the new flatmate coming over to pick up keys so might make them some too!

Who else is in this bitch is getting all pancaked up?

― kv_nol (kv_nol), Monday, 19 February 2007 12:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I am! Or at least my wife is. No blueberries in Sainsburys this weekend though :(

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 19 February 2007 12:26 (seventeen years ago) link

oh the humanity!

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Monday, 19 February 2007 12:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I am pathetic and unadventurous. I just really like sugar and lemon!

― kv_nol (kv_nol), Monday, 19 February 2007 12:28 (seventeen years ago) link

We be! Man I do good toss (pancakes)

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Monday, 19 February 2007 12:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Can't see why not.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 19 February 2007 12:41 (seventeen years ago) link

You can use frozen blueberries, it's difficult to tell the difference in pancakes

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 19 February 2007 12:43 (seventeen years ago) link

How do I shot pancake?

(I've got all this maple syrup from my mum, and no idea what else to do with it - but then I'll have a litre of maple syrup sitting around during lent that I will have to eat up. aRgh.)

― in the case of masonic attack (kate), Monday, 19 February 2007 12:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm making pancakes! I'm almost tempted to do fancy stewed apple and whipped cream stuff with them, but I probably won't bother. I do have frozen raspberries, blackberries, and cranberries knocking about though. Yum.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 19 February 2007 12:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm a lemon-and-sugar traditionalist.

― C J (C J), Monday, 19 February 2007 12:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I may go on a blueberry hunt this lunchtime! Thanks for the tip re frozen.

We have lemon & sugar as well!

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 19 February 2007 12:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Blueberries are down to £1.49 a punnet in tesco!

― C J (C J), Monday, 19 February 2007 12:55 (seventeen years ago) link

How can you make pancakes on Fats Tuesday when you're not giving up anything for Lent? this is so backwards!

― in the case of masonic attack (kate), Monday, 19 February 2007 12:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Woo! I wonder if Tesco Metro has them? I will soon find out...

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 19 February 2007 12:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Oy vey but think where the blueberries are coming from at this time of year.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 19 February 2007 12:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Well it's not going to be out of a rabbit's bum. (is it??)

― C J (C J), Monday, 19 February 2007 12:57 (seventeen years ago) link

pancakes, england style

1 egg to 4 tablespoons of flour, to half a pint of milk

add the liquid ingredients slowly to the flour to avoid lumps. leave to stand for an hour before using.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 19 February 2007 12:57 (seventeen years ago) link

When I was little, I used to think that the instruction to "stand for one hour" in recipes meant that *I* had to stand there for an hour.

― C J (C J), Monday, 19 February 2007 12:58 (seventeen years ago) link

How can you make pancakes on Fats Tuesday when you're not giving up anything for Lent?

this is a v important point!

― cis boom bah (cis), Monday, 19 February 2007 12:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I will probably be giving up pancakes for a while.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 19 February 2007 13:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe, if you don't eat pancakes for a while after Shrove Tuesday, you're actually giving up pancakes for Lent.

― C J (C J), Monday, 19 February 2007 13:00 (seventeen years ago) link

ha! x-post!

― C J (C J), Monday, 19 February 2007 13:00 (seventeen years ago) link

LOL at little CJ!

― g000blar (g00blar), Monday, 19 February 2007 13:01 (seventeen years ago) link

How can you make pancakes on Fats Tuesday when you're not giving up anything for Lent? this is so backwards!

I am! See the other thread!

― kv_nol (kv_nol), Monday, 19 February 2007 13:03 (seventeen years ago) link

How can you make pancakes on Fats Tuesday when you're not giving up anything for Lent? this is so backwards!

I don't believe in Jesus, but I do believe in pancakes.

― Johnney B's got a system (stigoftdumpilx), Monday, 19 February 2007 13:07 (seventeen years ago) link

How can you make pancakes on Fats Tuesday when you're not giving up anything for Lent?

Welcome to atheism. I can do whatever I like! No-one's judging me!

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 19 February 2007 13:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Also I am putting money in a Trocaire box, like I said.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 19 February 2007 13:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Wasn't Christmas enough? And then Easter with the bunnies and the creme eggs?!?!? And now you Atheists have to have Fats Tuesday, too?!?!? God, why not take Ash Wednesday? Or Monday Thursday, while you're at it?

Ha ha, actually Ash Wednesday is a pretty popular holiday, my mum was complaining about how they had to have all chaplains on deck at the hospital on Ash Wednesday coz everyone wants ashes, practising religious or not.

What if they get it all mixed up? And she ends up giving Anglican ashes to a Roman Catholic or a Methodist or worse?

― in the case of masonic attack (kate), Monday, 19 February 2007 13:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I am! (xxpost)

Also it's not religious, it's cos I is so fat and ting.

― kv_nol (kv_nol), Monday, 19 February 2007 13:13 (seventeen years ago) link

why make pancakes? ihop has free short stacks tomorrow

― sunny successor (katarina), Monday, 19 February 2007 13:18 (seventeen years ago) link

"free short stacks" sounds like a campaign to release a wrongly imprisoned midget wrestler.

― C J (C J), Monday, 19 February 2007 13:20 (seventeen years ago) link

What if they get it all mixed up? And she ends up giving Anglican ashes to a Roman Catholic or a Methodist or worse?

-- in the case of masonic attack (kateotheremai...) (webmail), Today 1:12 PM. (kate) (later)

i guess the catholic wont go to heaven.

― sunny successor (katarina), Monday, 19 February 2007 13:20 (seventeen years ago) link

not to mention those nasty burn marks

― sunny successor (katarina), Monday, 19 February 2007 13:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Bring it on, god lover.

Kevin, for heaven's sake. Unless you've eaten eight tons of lard since the last time I saw you, you are not fat. Your clothes might be a little tighter than you'd like, but you are not fat.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 19 February 2007 13:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Worse, they'd go to Anglican Heaven.

x-post

― in the case of masonic attack (kate), Monday, 19 February 2007 13:22 (seventeen years ago) link

YIKES

― sunny successor (katarina), Monday, 19 February 2007 13:22 (seventeen years ago) link

ihop sadly doesn't even live up to the first word of it's acronym

― Ed (dali), Monday, 19 February 2007 13:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Your clothes might be a little tighter than you'd like, but you are not fat.

Okay, I'm not fat but yeah, the clothes are a lot tighter thank I'd like! I suppose I just feel bad about it so melodrama kicks in!

― kv_nol (kv_nol), Monday, 19 February 2007 13:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Methodists don't do the whole cultist ash thing.

lol @ "Monday Thursday"

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 19 February 2007 13:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm not sure that my mum will be checking the credentials of people in the hospital to see that they are entitled to Anglican ashes or not.

― in the case of masonic attack (kate), Monday, 19 February 2007 13:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought you'd typed "Angela's ashes" there, Kate.

― C J (C J), Monday, 19 February 2007 13:33 (seventeen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/aldo_cowpat/hboy.jpg

― I am not a crappy security guard on L O S T (much_aldo_about_nothing), Monday, 19 February 2007 13:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Pancake topping ideas Plz. I am going to supermarket this lunch to stock up. Ideas from thread so far: Froxen blackberries, frozen cranberries, lemon, and sugar. What have I missed?

― kv_nol (kv_nol), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 09:37 (seventeen years ago) link

nutella.

― cis boom bah (cis), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 09:39 (seventeen years ago) link

spinach and ricotta.

― cis boom bah (cis), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 09:39 (seventeen years ago) link

preserved ginger in syrup and vanilla icecream.

― cis boom bah (cis), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 09:40 (seventeen years ago) link

'dried chicken meat'

― cis boom bah (cis), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 09:40 (seventeen years ago) link

sieved cocoa, nutmeg, cinnamon and icing sugar.

― cis boom bah (cis), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 09:42 (seventeen years ago) link

candied rose petals.

― cis boom bah (cis), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 09:43 (seventeen years ago) link

For years all I had in pancakes was Golden Syrup, but lately I have got more adventurous, delving into maple syrup, Nutella, lemon & sugar, etcetera. This year I may try honey & lemon. I have no Nutella though. Hmmm. I must buy some.

― Sick Mouthy (sickmouthy), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 09:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Nutella is ick! That sieved cocoa sounds great, I've got some Green & Black drinking choc, that could work.

candied rose petals.

You had me up until here!

― kv_nol (kv_nol), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 10:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Breakfast: berries w/maple syrup

Savoury: spinach and goat's cheese or ham and mushroom with melted cheddar cheese.

Sweet: banana and nutella or maple syrup and pecans

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 10:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm gonna try crunchy peanut butter this year. Maybe peanut butter + nutella. That might be awesome.

― The Wayward Johnny B (stigoftdumpilx), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 10:32 (seventeen years ago) link

We're having people round for a pancake party.

― SandboxAnna (SandboxAnna), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 10:58 (seventeen years ago) link

coconut syrup!

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link

apparently i am having some pancakes later. that's cool.

sometimes i think 'pancakes are nice, why do we only eat them one day a year?' i mean it's pretty crazy if you think about it.

― resumo impetus (blueski), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link

In my bag, I have a massive oilcan of PURE VERMONT MAPLE SYRUP for putting on pancakes tonight. I am fairly excited.

― in the case of masonic attack (kate), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link

>> sometimes i think 'pancakes are nice, why do we only eat them one day a year?' i mean it's pretty crazy if you think about it.

That's what my wife said. Silly Britishes. Luckily she does make them for breakfast some weekends!

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link

although I'm not a big mardi gras celebrator I have lived almost my entire life in the southern US and have never seen pancakes associated with fat tuesday except on ilx. is this mostly a European thing? And yes pancakes are staples here. They were a regular weeknight dinner when I was a kid.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I AM SO CONFUSED BY LEMON! Is this plain lemon juice? Do you sift the powdered sugar over it afterward, or mix it into the juice for sweetening? Why would you involve a citrus fruit at all when there is mayple syrup in the world?

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:28 (seventeen years ago) link

haha, yeah, Maple Syrup

but i have also discovered Date Butter - which is basically just what happens when you smash up some fresh (iranian or equiv) dates and mix them with softened butter. it is freakin great (if you like dates. and butter.) good on pancakes, toast, biscuits, a spoon, etc

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

does anyone watch trading spouses? last night there were some raw diet hippies on there who brushed their teeth with a mixture of butter and clay. It wasn't pretty.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

hahaha wtf
i understand the clay part, but butter? b/c of, uh, lactose?

okay i have decided to make pancakes for dinner (wheat-free pancakes tho), pos more like crepes
i even have apples and could make a dutch-style apple crepe-pancake whoa

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:11 (seventeen years ago) link

We had: gruyere and spring greens on wholewheat, maple syrup and spring greens on plain and crepe suzette (flambéed bandy orange caramel) on plain. I am having some with sugar and lemon juice this morning for breakfast.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 07:52 (seventeen years ago) link

We had: Lemon, sugar and syrup (not on same pancake). It was bleedin' lovely! Great welcome for new flatmate. Had with a slightly too warm Syrah but what can one do! Ended up making them for late returning s.o. at half eleven. Bit tired at the old desk as a result!

PS. Ed, that's just too showy. Jealous, moi?

― kv_nol (kv_nol), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 09:41 (seventeen years ago) link

the sugar vs lemon combination is fantastic. laurel you should try, you will believe! i wouldn't bother with powdered sugar tho, just regular sugar.

― haitchwax (haitch), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 09:42 (seventeen years ago) link

It's really easy to do. squeeze an orange into a pan add a couple of tablespoons of brandy. Dissolve as much dark brown (muscavado/molasses) sugar as it will take then bring to the boil gently until it caramelises in thickens.

Make the pancake the pour a little of the caramel on. Add a tablespoon of brandy to the pan and ignite as it boils, fold and serve with whipped cream.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 09:45 (seventeen years ago) link

They go on FIRE!!! It is impressive.

Ha ha, my brother actually had it written into his pre-nuptual contract that he was to have pancakes every Saturday morning.

― in the case of masonic attack (kate), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 10:39 (seventeen years ago) link

But of course. So simple, forgive me my terrible laziness ;) (xpost)

No! That is the best use of one of them (apart from protecting one's money) ever!

― kv_nol (kv_nol), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 10:51 (seventeen years ago) link

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