Pancake Day {Yum Yum}

Pancake Day is here and I’m so excited. It’s something my husband just doesn’t get worked up about but I do. As a kid it was a really big event in our household as it is the eve of Lent.  In fact pancakes were the only thing we would have for dinner on Shrove Tuesday so my Mum would make millions of them – I’d always wanted to see how many I could polish off. I’ve tried to engage my DH in this foolish but fun dinner time ritual but he feels pancakes are dessert and therefore for after we’ve eaten our meal. My favourite is the very traditional lemon and sugar, but I do like nutella and banana too!

So here is my not-very-secret pancake recipe for you all to give it a try

125g plain flour

Pinch of salt


1 whole egg plus 1 egg yolk


225ml milk
 (not skimmed)

Small knob of butter

Topping of your choice

1. Whisk ingredients together until they are the consistency of double cream

2. Refridgerate for half an hour

3. Heat some butter in a frying pan, ladle in a small amount of batter and flip/turn/toss when it begins to set

4. Serve immediately. Makes about 6

So will you be keeping it traditional with lemon and sugar?  If so to help make your own pancakes you can you might want to consider the mysqueeze citrus squeezer, designed by Roland Kreiter for Alessi and mydeco.com

Roland Kreiter squeezing lemons from mydeco on Vimeo.