You all seem to be such proficient chefs. Well here is a place to share some of that cooking knowledge. Or do you have a cooking problem? Ask away. Jams and chutneys go here too.
i hate them
my kids had them
i hate making them
i hate eating them
i hate talking about them
my kids love them
is it just to get me ranting on or do they really like them lol
i made the kids small lovely small fluffy ones tonight with choc sauce and raspberry sauce
1 out of 3 children ate them
this was all done after my 10 yr old talked all the 25 min walk home about pancake bloody tuesday yes well done school for filling them full of pancakes all day and then making me make them lol
Food in the fifties wasn't exciting, for us kids, with few exceptions, it was something you just ate. One of the exceptions was pancakes, only got them once a year, but what a treat.
The other exceptions were bread and sugar sandwiches, rock cakes, and gran's steak and kidney pudding.
Oooh, I had forgotten sugar sandwiches...brown sugar! No wonder our teeth went rotten! I love making pancakes but forgot yesterday so will do it today instead! Just with lemon and sugar...the saucy stuff makes them too sweet
The cockerel makes the noise, the hen produces the goods!! anon
My kids have pancakes with maple syrup every sunday breakfast,which makes Shrove Tuesday not very special, sadly.
Old girlfiend from Yorkshire introduced me to the delights of pancake,covered in stew/hash/curry/chilli/whatever topped with another pancake (sort of like a sandwich) still love them today (can't for the life of me remember what she looked like though...).
haha we used to have bread and brown sugar sandwiches. And banana sandwiches. And mashed up going old bananas stirred in with milk and sugar. I love pancakes. Thin ones with lemon and sugar.
grahamhobbs wrote:Food in the fifties wasn't exciting, for us kids, with few exceptions, it was something you just ate. One of the exceptions was pancakes, only got them once a year, but what a treat.
The other exceptions were bread and sugar sandwiches, rock cakes, and gran's steak and kidney pudding.
C'mon Graham - you've forgotten raw rhubarb dunked (very generously) into the sugar bowl, and celery with a small mountain of salt on the bit that's about to go in your mouth. Terrible - but quite gorgeous. Oh - and sugar on lettuce.
Mike
The secret of life is to aim below the head (With thanks to MMM)
You may be related to someone I went to school with.
I was invited for tea one day and was given a lovely ham salad. I sat aghast watching my friend put a big dollop of salad cream on the side of her plate, followed by a spoonful of sugar which she stirred in with her spring onions
Maggie
Never doubt that you can change history. You already have. Marge Piercy
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Anais Nin
If you went to school anywhere near Newcastle, GA, I may well be related to your friend - the sugar on lettuce thing came from my cousin, who was a Gateshead lad. When he first told me about it, I thought it sounded revolting - and then I tried it. It was quite lipsmacking. My tastes have changed these days, but I still remember the pleasure. Mind, there's quite a lot of things I could say that about now.
Mike
The secret of life is to aim below the head (With thanks to MMM)
Oh I do LOVE pancakes with a passion but I can eat far to many of them, just simple sugar and lemon.....also getting into waffles since I got my new waffle iron
Sing like nobody's listening, live like there's no tomorrow, dance like nobody's watching and love like you've never been hurt.
I love pancakes, sophie loves pancakes, james loves pancakes.... I am the only one who can cook them to everyone's likings and so I'm the one who is lumbered for half an hour flipping the b4st4rds.
I like plain marge on mine lol.
I love butter and sugar sandwhiches but it has to be real butter sophie likes "fairy bread" which is marge topped off with hundreds and thousands or sugar strands. it's an excellent bribery breakfast (I know, I am a crappy parent) to get her to be willing to go to school!!!
oh how I love my tea, tea in the afternoon. I can't do without it, and I think I'll have another cup very
ve-he-he-he-heryyyyyyy soooooooooooon!!!!
on the side of her plate, followed by a spoonful of sugar 
sophie likes "fairy bread" which is marge topped off with hundreds and thousands or sugar strands. it's an excellent bribery breakfast (I know, I am a crappy parent) to get her to be willing to go to school!!!