Pancake sacrilege!

Has anyone tried making pancakes with cornflour?

This year, I can have pancakes! I didn't eat eggs for years, as they used to upset me - recently I can eat them, don't know why or what has changed.

So tomorrow I have a visitor who is gluten sensitive. Ahah - I have some spelt flour, which is what she uses. And we'll introduce my little grandson to pancakes, I hope he likes them. I have missed then.

You put what you fancy on your pancakes

Tradition is lemon and sugar.Nice to have them savoury aswell

Making the basic pancake I make a rich white sauce add plenty of prawns spread this mixture over pancakes roll up and place in greased oven proof dish
Same white sauce add grated mild cheddar pour over
pancakes Cook in fan oven 150 until sauce is bubbling you can finish under a grill to brown cheese.Nice to only have a side salad with this dish as these pancakes are quite filling.
A chilled chardonnay completes

Must admit I cannot get my head around the bottles of ready mixed pancake batter available in shops....its hardly a difficult recipe....!

The Waitrose weekend paper had a recipe for pancakes with oranges and then a warm Cointreau sauce on top. Luckily we didn't have any Cointreau in or I would have been making them straight away! I am sorely tempted though for tomorrow.....

Parmesan on a tradition Shrove Tuesday pancake? Parmesan IS a bit of a Marmitey foodstuff - love it or hate it.

Now there's a thought - Marmite on a pancake.

Yeuk!

I always have two of my Granddaughters on Tuesday's after school.So we have great fun making and tossing pancakes, on Shrove Tuesday's obviously.They are 11 and 8 and they only ever want lemon juice and sugar which suits my hubby and myself just fine COS IT'S THE ONLY WAY TO EAT PANCAKES RIGHT!!!

My favourite is caster sugar and lemon juice. Gorgeous! I make them throughout the year and if I suddenly get a fancy for them but don't have any lemons, I have made them with tangerine juice (from fresh tangerines/ satsumas/mandarins) and soft brown sugar. Very nice. I have also in the past made them with a minced beef/bolognese filling. When we were young our mum used to make them with sultanas in and my brother and sister liked them, but I have always preferred caster sugar and lemon juice. I had some only last week. If I can't be bothered to cook a proper meal in the evening (I live alone), then pancakes it is! That way I can justify it because it's my main meal and not a dessert!

Although I love pancakes with lemon & sugar I did see a wonderful recipe on Sainsburys' site the other day for a stack cake of pancakes with chocolate between the stacks which were I were not just embarking on a carb free diet I would have made for Easter Sunday dinner. Unfortunately DGD saw it too so I may have to make it anyway.

Dove gluten free flour makes very good pancakes and also good Scotch pancakes

merlotgran my daughter makes lovely gluten free pancakes for her two coeliac sons and so all the family eat them too without any complaints.

Sugar and lemon juice (the French can't get their heads around the lemon bit)
Maple syrup
Raspberry jam and cream
Spinach and parmesan

Absent, the restaurant was still there at Christmas so hope it will last a long time, it is popular with locals as well as tourists.
Actually I just had a Google and there are 7 pancake restaurants mentioned but i think you mean The Pancake House.

I would like to try currants in pancakes - but not on Shrove Tuesday
They are nice in Scotch pancakes anyway

I thought there mught be strong negative feelings about the currants!

I think it sounds yummy angelab and furthermore will try it out.

When I was growing up my mum always put currants in Shrove Tuesday pancakes (which we ate with lemon and sugar!)

What do other gransnetters think of that?

sugar and lemon juice - is there any other way?
although daughter and grandaughters will probably choose something else.
sacrilege this year is that we will be buying our pancakes!! daughter is working quite late and i can't cook at the moment [can't stand long enough to even cook one!] so i hope they'll taste ok. not happy though!

I said rather grimly to DH that I bet the food police will want us to use kale. Don't look now Phoenix www.abelandcole.co.uk/recipes/fluffy-kale-pancakes-with-tahini-butter.
I had a book of pancakes when dd1 and 2 were small. A poorly child and as skinny as a rake could put away a pile of pancakes. I still make them for her family for breakfast.
And we are a sugar and lemon family but the children are allowed raspberry jam.

Mushroom pancakes are good too.
I once tried cheese blintzes - you fill each one with a cream cheese and lemon filling, turn ends in , roll them up and refry. Joint side down first. Nice but fiddly.

Lemon and sugar for me too, although I do like a savoury filling of smoked haddock in a cheese sauce occasionally.

A Russian colleague brought some pancakes into work the other day and put out various jams and - wait for it! - a tin of condensed milk to spread on them. Sticky and sweet.I never want them any other way again! (Except savoury)

As our DS and family are American, for some years I've been making American pancakes - which I find easier to cook than European ones. (Like a big Scotch pancake.) Personally I like lemon and sugar, but I say each to their own, so long as the pancake tradition continues.

Phoenix, how right you are. Sugar and lemon juice. It is the law.

We have buckwheat pancakes with hot dogs and ratatouille and home made steak house chips; love all pancakes, but I'm the only one who ever has a dessert during the week, so it's always our standby savoury!