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Offline loulou

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Shrove Tuesday
« on: February 22, 2009, 10:38:34 pm »
What are you planning to have on your pancakes? Are you making them or buying them?
M&S have a tub of ready made batter for anyone not too sure on making it.
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Re: Shrove Tuesday
« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2009, 02:42:09 am »
tried a lot of ready-made just-add-water mixes - not keen on any of them. so it's homemade all the way. (or maybe i'll give the m&s tub a try.)

as for toppings etc... last year i tried a lot. the most original was kiwi, sugar and double cream. and damn did it work!
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Re: Shrove Tuesday
« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2009, 06:40:02 am »
I always make pancakes (although I don't eat them) and we usually have lemon and a dash of brown sugar on them.  My husband and son would never let me miss making pancakes. Now my daughter does not live at home, she makes them for her housemates.
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Re: Shrove Tuesday
« Reply #3 on: February 23, 2009, 07:30:58 am »
We're fresh out of shroves
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Re: Shrove Tuesday
« Reply #4 on: February 23, 2009, 09:10:52 am »
I;m off to the supermarket for free pancakes
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Re: Shrove Tuesday
« Reply #5 on: February 23, 2009, 09:22:18 am »
Quote from: loulou on February 22, 2009, 10:38:34 pm
What are you planning to have on your pancakes? Are you making them or buying them?
M&S have a tub of ready made batter for anyone not too sure on making it.

Pancakes... Easy.

I do not see why people find batter and cakes hard to make...

Pancakes are at their simplest,

Ingredients
2 cups self-raising flour
1 tsp. salt
2 tbsp. sugar
1 egg
1 1/2 cups. milk
3 tbsp. oil

Thats roughly the proportions, vary slightly to thicken add a little flour or thin the mix by adding small amounts of water.
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Re: Shrove Tuesday
« Reply #6 on: February 23, 2009, 12:08:31 pm »
Sod that, I'm off to M&S!  I even have the chocolate sauce ready!  Om, nom, nom, etc...
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Re: Shrove Tuesday
« Reply #7 on: February 23, 2009, 12:33:15 pm »
Quote from: bounty hunter on February 23, 2009, 07:30:58 am
We're fresh out of shroves
They only can be found on one Tuesday a year and you have to be up by 4am in order to catch some.
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Re: Shrove Tuesday
« Reply #8 on: February 23, 2009, 03:21:38 pm »
Quote from: netbuddy on February 23, 2009, 09:22:18 am
Quote from: loulou on February 22, 2009, 10:38:34 pm
What are you planning to have on your pancakes? Are you making them or buying them?
M&S have a tub of ready made batter for anyone not too sure on making it.

Pancakes... Easy.

I do not see why people find batter and cakes hard to make...

Pancakes are at their simplest,

Ingredients
2 cups self-raising flour...

self raising flour?
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Re: Shrove Tuesday
« Reply #9 on: February 23, 2009, 04:09:51 pm »
Yep, if you like your cakes fluffy, most recipies ask for baking powder if you look online, whats the point when self raising will do same job.

Plain flour will give you a crepe type cake.
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Re: Shrove Tuesday
« Reply #10 on: February 23, 2009, 05:10:37 pm »
i've used self raising before for pancakes (when i was very young and couldn't be bothered to walk up the shops), and all it did was bubble and lift from the pan and wouldn't cook properly. i ALWAYS use plain. (and i've never needed baking powder.)
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Re: Shrove Tuesday
« Reply #11 on: February 23, 2009, 05:14:49 pm »
Quote from: wjp666 on February 23, 2009, 05:10:37 pm
i've used self raising before for pancakes (when i was very young and couldn't be bothered to walk up the shops), and all it did was bubble and lift from the pan and wouldn't cook properly. i ALWAYS use plain. (and i've never needed baking powder.)
If that happend, your mix was tooooooooo thiiiiiinnnnnnn.
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Re: Shrove Tuesday
« Reply #12 on: February 23, 2009, 05:17:52 pm »
i'm sticking to my guns here - PLAIN, PLAIN, PLAIN!  ;D
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Re: Shrove Tuesday
« Reply #13 on: February 23, 2009, 05:59:43 pm »
Plain all the way, but it's what turns you on, innit!
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Re: Shrove Tuesday
« Reply #14 on: February 23, 2009, 07:47:14 pm »
It the Cooking that the hard part you need it VERY VERY VERY HOT!

and net is that the thin ones?  as for me and Paul were from scotland thus enjoy the much thinker ones!
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