What do you put on your pancakes ?

Tonight's meal will be American pancakes: I find them easier to make than the traditional "British" ones. Has to be lemon and sugar on top, but we forgot to buy any lemons. So it'll be bottled lemon juice, plus a few frozen lemon slices (normally kept for G & Ts) out of the freezer.

Am going to try bacon and maple syrup!

Lemon, sugar and a sprinkle of cinnamon, yum!

Oat flour pancakes with Greek Yoghurt, Maple Syrup, Blueberries and Strawberries. Mmmmm can't wait for dinner tonight...

We have Percy Pig Syrup this year

But I shall remain boring with my lemon and sugar

Many years ago we used to make crêpes suzettes with oranges and grand marnier and we’d flambé them. They were delicious. I wish I could buy the liquor as a miniature but you can’t nowadays as I wouldn’t particularly enjoy as a drink.

I had never heard of lemon on pancakes! Made me realise that we have always eaten them in the Danish fashion, that is with raspberry or strawberry jam on them.

Probably because pancakes of this sort, are an English tradition, as is eating them on Shrove Tuesday, and it was more or less unknown in my Scottish childhood

In Denmark, Monday before Ash Wednesday is celebrated with sticky buns filled with custard and iced - the stickier the better and children used to go out guising for them. That stopped when Saturday morning school went out in the late 1960s, because Shrove Monday was no longer a half-holiday.
The logic, if such it is, being that unless it became an ordinary school day, it would not be possible to teach the stipulated hours a year! (They could just have deducted a day from the summer holiday, instead of ruining an ancient tradition!)

Now I am on my own I don’t bother but in the past used to make crepes Suzette. Also had them at Christmas because the children didn’t like Christmas pudding.

On another note, quite a few of the local Traditional Pancake races and events like the Ashbourne Shrovetide Tuesday Football game through the town Centre, have been cancelled this year due to Covid 19. This was an internationally recognised event with people travelling far and wide to attend. A great loss to all the businesses that relied on the increased trade and the extra publicity it gave to British Tourism in general.

Lemon and sugar

I used to make mushroom pancakes for my family. I used wholemeal flour for the batter so they were quite solid and filling.
Fry the mushrooms in butter and thicken with a little plain flour.
Cream cheese blintzes are also delicious - not sure if anyone has mentioned them.

When I was growing up we only ever had chop sauce on pancakes and only on shrove Tuesday x

My dh has lemon and sugar but I had honey and sliced banana

Got this text from DD when she finished work.

I can’t believe it’s pancake day............


....that creped up.

Best I’ve ever had, in France were crab and fennel. Not bothering with any today.

Always lemon ? and sugar. I sometimes fancy something different, but always revert back to lemon and sugar. Can’t beat it!

Lemon and sugar on the pancakes I had at lunch time. The ones I had after my supper this evening were : Raspberry jam and Greek yoghurt, Marmalade and Greek yoghurt and honey and Greek yoghurt. There is enough mixture left for a couple tomorrow. I will have Nutella in those, but need to buy a jar first! I also like savoury pancakes. Mushrooms, garlic and Creme Fraiche is tasty and easy to do.

Jellyfish

My DH insists on having currants in the batter, is this a Welsh thing?

My mum always put currants in pancakes and she came from Hampshire.

Just had mine with lemon and sugar but husband prefers golden syrup. Delicious all the same.

Coffee ice-cream and whipped cream

Just lemon and sugar for me.

Having just given DH a lecture about how we must do something about our indulgent lockdown diet and start a healthy eating regime, we had a pile of pancakes with golden syrup and lemon juice! That was an hour after lasagne and salad and a large glass of Rioja! Good start?‍♀️.

DH and I managed 2 pancakes each (frying pan size) . They are more’ish aren’t they?

I had four.

Two of the DGS were here (childcare bubble, both parents working - why do I feel I have to explain this?!). They arrived with toppings galore. We usually have a savoury pancake (maybe prawns or garlic spinach and mushrooms) then a couple with lemon juice and sugar. Today I went rogue with lemon sherbet topping, Nutella, golden syrup and M & S Percy Pig syrup.

Sultanas with brown sugar and cinnamon today, but I also like them with maple syrup. In France I usually go for the savoury ones.