Pancake Tuesday - How will you eat yours?

Sabre0001 wrote: »

The most wonderful day of the year How do you eat your pancakes?

While I love Nutella (and will usually get this topping from a crepe stand), I can usually only do one homemade pancake with it. Usually with strawberries.

My staple pancake is simply sugar! Will have some leftovers for tomorrow, so planning turkey slices, rocket, and cheese for lunch.

With Parma ham and a nice cheese ... then just simply sugar and lemon juice for after.

Just had two sweet ones at work (with strawberries and nutella), but I'm planning on having savoury filled pancakes for tea.
I'm thinking Cheela-style pancakes, filled with butternut squash, caramelised onions and goats cheese, and baked with a bit of cottage cheese on them.

I'll post a picture if this goes well

We did Pancake Monday this year.

I have issues with egg, so could only eat one (even that was risky :P). I always try make that one count. This year I went with the classic: lemon and sugar.

Haven't bothered making pancakes in years but if I found myself sitting in front of one it would be butter, lemon juice and a tiny sprinkling of sugar.

Bacon is great on them. Lots of maple syrup too.

Ardennes1944 wrote: »

Does anyone make buckwheat or bran pancakes here?

Yes, buckwheat galletes are lovely for a savoury pancake.

Stewed apple, whipped cream and a dusting of cinnamon in our house.

I don't "get" the Nutella thing.
In my opinion - and I know its purely a matter of personal taste - the pancakes are bland in flavour and smoothish in texture: so anything that is also sweetish and stodgy is not a good contrast. Doesn't do much for either the pancake or the Nutella.
Whereas the traditional bit of butter, squeeze of lemon, sprinkle of caster sugar gives flavours, contrasts, sharpness, crunchiness - all the best things - no wonder it is the crowd pleaser!

Other favourites:
grated cheddar/chopped onion, scallions or chives.
Natural yogurt with applesauce, cinnamon.
Another classic, bacon and maple syrup.
Cream and raspberries; (out of season, though:) I use frozen ones from my own garden, they thaw to a delicious sharp/vivid coulis with a little icing sugar

And for the main course, I've made a kind of lasagna by stacking pancakes with savoury minced beef and cheese sauce. Pile high in layers, cut in wedges like a cake.
When my kids were at school, they could eat pancakes for every meal. Three frying-pans on the go at once. There was a smoky cloud of blue haze over my kitchen that day!

Savoury pancakes have no place on Shrove Tuesday. Butter, sugar & a squeeze of lemon - everything else is just having notions!

I have my buttermilk batter resting while I ponder the toppings. Not sure what I'm going to do yet, but I've plenty of options - too many perhaps!

I’m not a fan of sweet pancakes. It’ll be savoury toppings/fillings all the way for me. I have sobrasada and a tonne of cheese in the fridge, so something that uses them up will be good.

Wasn’t gonna make pancakes at all, I’m not a massive lover of the traditional crepe style ones that we do in Ireland so I decided to make the banana oat pancakes - it’s a Flahavans recipe - I added cinnamon and chia seeds to them. They were delicious!!

They look great Leahy! I’ve made the banana pancakes a few times, so easy and delicious weekend mornings!

B0jangles wrote: »

For the last couple of years I've been making a vegan pancake batter for my mammy which is really very like a normal mixture in both taste and texture. Once the toppings go on, you barely taste the pancake anyway


It's really simple - instead of egg you use 'flax egg' which is milled flax AKA linseed plus water. To get the equivalent of one egg I mix 1 tablespoon of flax into 1.5 tablespoons of boiling water and let it sit for 10-15 minutes until it's nice and gloopy. The linseed comes from Aldi, and I think they have it in tesco and lidl too.

Thanks for the tip, I must try it some time. It might be a while though... I'm still recovering from my previous vegan pancake disaster :P

On the sweet vs savoury debate, sweet all the way!! Although I'd love to have one of each...

tickingclock wrote: »

Completely agree. Our house is the exact same. That's all we have on pancake Tuesday.

Went full savoury last night.

Pancakes made with oat flour served enchillada style with spicey beef, flamed onion & peppers and chili.

Fecking gorgeous....

Just thinking I did not recall seeing any jif ads or promotions in the shops or TV, might have just not noticed. It is more nutella these days which I do not remember being promoted when I was a kid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jif_(lemon_juice)#Marketing

Jif is sometimes used on pancakes.[23] An advertising campaign introduced the catch-phrase "Don't forget the pancakes on Jif lemon day,"[24] in reference to Shrove Tuesday,[25] which is also referred to as Pancake Day. The campaign and slogan was devised by Reckitt and Colman.[8] The Jif lemon-shaped packaging aligned Jif with the consumption of pancakes on Shrove Tuesday in consumers' minds, creating a strong link between the product and Shrove Tuesday.[11] Jif and pancakes is a popular combination on Shrove Tuesday.[26] In 2000, over 80,000 Jif lemons were being produced per day to meet consumer demand for Pancake Day, beginning five weeks prior to Pancake Day.[8][13][14] This occurred despite fresh lemons having greater availability during this time compared to other time periods.[8] The adverts were shown throughout the 1970's, 1980's and 1990's decades on television screens in Ireland and United Kingdom.