Does anyone know when shrove tuesday is ie pancake day
Its tuesday this week in my house on account of i feel like pancakes and i make them for the kids with cream a drizzle of honey and a dash of squeezed lime deeeelicious
Just a swift thought maybe a HHAD happening a pancake race from say the bottom of JWs road to the Johnie Walker bar
Sarge, the correct term these days is "crepe". Crepe day is a great day! You use the term pancake, everyone will think your a closet Yank. Or did the Brits invent the pancake? Pete
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prcscct wrote:Sarge, the correct term these days is "crepe". Crepe day is a great day! You use the term pancake, everyone will think your a closet Yank. Or did the Brits invent the pancake? Pete
In 1634 William Fennor wrote in his Palinodia:"And tosse their Pancakes up for feare they burne."
The most famous pancake race, at Olney in Buckinghamshire, has been held since 1445. The contestants, traditionally women, carry a frying pan and race to the finishing line tossing the pancakes as they go. As the pancakes are thin, some skill is required to toss them successfully while running. The winner is the first to cross the line having tossed the pancake a certain number of times.
Pete: I don't think that we invented the pancake - but we did invent a lot of other things that we take for granted.
Sarge is very British and so is the name pancake. I think the Amercans call them griddle cakes or something similar.
The British pancake is as large as the frying pan and quite thin - unlike the American griddle thingy which is smaller and thicker. Crêpe is the posh French word for nearly the same thing (except it's even thinner) and, not being French, I prefer the good old pancake.
I believe that pancakes were made on Shrove Tuesday just to get rid of the sugar etc. (all those nice, naughty things) before the fasting of Lent.
I just love them, anytime, with lemon juice and sugar. Can I come round on Tuesday, Sarge?
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Blimey DM, you beat me to it. BTW thanks for the fruitcake, but I would say it was a tad on the dry side (still yummy though).
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To answer your question 24 Feb in 2009 - a while to wait.
Have a word with Richard - his traditional Yorkshire puds can probably be sprinkled with sugar and then drenched in lemon
(being a tyke he certainly wouldn't want to waste any of the mix)
I think the Amercans call them griddle cakes or something similar.
Nope, in the three states where I lived we called them pancakes and they can be made in any diameter from from about 3 inches up to the size of the pan depending on the preference of the cook and diners, but you're right, they are much thicker that crepes and hungry people eat them in stacks with melted butter and maple syrup (or commercial pancake syrup) poured over the top.
Since they are made from a batter, bits of fruit may also be added to make them even better, like bananas or blueberries.
Makes a great breakfast that really sticks to the ribs as they say back home!
HH i have had what you described put in front of me and my 20 squaddies for breakfast every day in edmonton canada i think we all tried them once and then the boys demanded egg and bacon They are not quite a brit pancake though. As for crepe souzette that is french and they spell crepe wrong delete the 2 es and insert an a
HH you need desperately to try my brekky Home made bread and butter soft fried egg on top fried home made sausage and bacon fried kidney and fried fresh tomato
Now that puts hair on your chest
SM my mix is easy a pint of milk 3 eggs whisk em up and add flour Blue bag stuff untill its the correct consistancy
I use evaporated milk and add water sometimes like as wot i used to in the army ahhhh the memories
PeteB wrote:............... his traditional Yorkshire puds can probably be sprinkled with sugar and then drenched in lemon
Hello Pete. I was just about to post an AWOL message about you. I have not seen anything from you since my own return to the forum 3 months ago.
My take on Pancakes is that it is just a name. To ask who invented them is like asking who invented soup. Both soup and pancakes, crepes, griddle cakes, tortillas etc., etc., etc., have been cooked all over the world since the iron age began. Of course the locale affects the recipe but is is basically cereal and water and in some cultures potato and water. Egg is used almost everywhere and sometimes milk.
My mum's recipe for pancakes was exactly the same as her recipe for Yorkshire Puds except that the tin was greased with lard for puds and the pancakes were fried in a tiny bit of vegetable oil.
If you are in North Bucks area in February then the Olney pancake race is a must.
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quote guess "Hello Pete. I was just about to post an AWOL message about you. I have not seen anything from you since my own return to the forum 3 months ago. "
I didnt think he reads the posts just answers them i just got your profile up seems you have posted quite regularly
wrong pete
i beat you to it guess
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Guess wrote:To ask who invented them is like asking who invented soup.
Now we know. Pete
One of the first types of soups can be dated to about 6000 BC.[1] Boiling was not a common cooking technique until the invention of waterproof containers (which probably came in the form of pouches made of clay or animal skin) about 9,000 years ago.
The word soup originates from "sop", a dish originally consisting of a soup or thick stew which was soaked up with pieces of bread. The modern meaning of sop has been limited to just the bread intended to be dipped.
The word restaurant was first used in France in the 16th century, to describe a highly concentrated, inexpensive soup, sold by street vendors called restaurer, that was advertised as an antidote to physical exhaustion. In 1765, a Parisian entrepreneur opened a shop specializing in restaurers. This prompted the use of the modern word restaurant to describe the shops.
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Pete 
They are not quite a brit pancake though. As for crepe souzette that is french and they spell crepe wrong delete the 2 es and insert an a 
