They. Are. Not. Pancakes

To be strictly accurate, Mogsmaw, Scotch is whisky; Irish is whiskey. A relative who makes the best Scottish pancakes told me that they should not be made with SR flour but plain flour with baking soda added. When little bubbles appear on the surface, that is the time to turn them over to cook on that side.

Thick pancakes, mad with sr flour are scotch pancakes and always have been they're also called drops ones. Scotch is whiskey or anything scotish except people were scots. Call me 'scotch' an I'll say 'yes please malt, with a little water'.

Made pancakes yesterday as I do every year on the "special day".Grandsons first out of school,no dilly dallying ,desperate to make and eat Scotch pancakes,always have been and always will be the real deal for me.

I've just had a rice flour pancake with bean sprouts and shrimps and something unrecognisable,I'm a day late but I'm in Vietnam and missed out yesterday

How can a pancake be a flapjack? The world is going mad!

Soutra you really started something here!

Pancakes - aka as hotcakes or flapjacks in America according to wikipedia!

Now a flapjack to me is - well we all know don't we? Or do we, I'm beginning to wonder with all these regional variations

Oh, right. Thanks, Agus. I've only ever been to Brittany and Normandy. I did not realise they made galettes differently elsewhere in France.

The last word on the subject of pancakes?

If politicians were to make (and flip) pancakes, would that make them t*ssers???

Granny23- we always had pancakes with jelly at home- but not THAT sort of jelly, but apple, gooseberry or redcurrant jelly (clear jam).

Dd,who is staying until Thursday, is going to make pancakes tomorrow. Both dgd1 and I adore then. Dgd2 at 4/12 is a little too young!

Well you can make them both in a pan. The difference is the thickness of batter mixture.

Brittany is French Jen. I was just saying your recipe was regional and there are other Gallettes recipes in different regions. Regardless of all that though, as you say, they are delicious.

Way off track here but I read that Welsh people moving France do in fact choose Brittany as Breton is very similar to Welsh Gaelic.

Definitely tea bread with butter on it for us grannyisland

patronising

standard ingredients for pancakes: eggs, flour, milk. Some people add sugar.

Standard ingredients for Scotch pancakes: eggs, flour, milk in slightly different proportions. Some people add sugar.

But Scotch pancakes are not pancakes.

Gotta love gransnet logic.

Being vegetarian, it was really good being able to find creperies in Brittany and Normandy when we used to go to France. I thought Brittany was French, Agus. Anyway, they are delicious. I used to make them for breakfast in my vegetarian guest house. Filled with bananas and sunflower seeds, or mushrooms with sesame seeds.

Digressing a little - do you think of fruit loaf as cake or tea-bread? I put butter on and DBH protests that you don't put butter on cake! I say it's tea- bread and you put butter on bread.

I bought some dove's farm gf flour last week, might try that.

That is the recipe for Gallettes Bretonnes Jen. Other pâte de crêpes use plain flour which is used more for sweet crêpes.

The French Galettes are made with buckwheat flour, which despite its name is not wheat. It's glutenfree and a member of the rhubarb family.
I make pancakes with it, and almond milk.
I will make the batter tonight, so it will cook properly tomorrow.

Depends who's making them Roses

I love the French savoury crêpes filled with Ham, melted Gruyère and fried egg. Yum!

soutra you are right, by the way, scotch pancakes are not pancakes, in any case they taste horrible, neither one thing nor the other.

sylvia I make wheat and gluten free pancakes [ and very nice they are too!] I just use Dove SR flour [ I expect purists use plain flour.]Pancakes are so easy to make that you don't need a packet or bought ones. Nothing could be easier than flour an egg and a pint of milk.You need the frypan nice and hot and sizzling with a blob of butter, a few mins later [don't forget to flip] it's ready to eat.

Where I come from the things with holes in are Pikelets.