Well today is Shrove Tuesday or better know in the the UK as Panckae Day.

 

First a few facts:

 

Pancakes were made so as to use up the eggs and butter before Lent began.

 

This tradtion is very old and the receipe for pancakes can be found in cookbooks as far back as 1439. Pancake tossing goes back to the seventeenth century.

 

The worlds largest pancake was made in Rochdale (UK) in 1994. It was 15ms diameter and weighed 3 tonnes. If eaten was estimated to be about 2 million calories :shock:

 

Ralf Laue from Leipzig holds the world record for tossing a pancake. 416 times in 2 minutes.

 

Mike Cuzzacrea ran a marathan while continuing to toss a pancake for 3hours, 2 minutes, 27 seconds.

 

These pancales are thin, more like Crepes than the thicker kind usually had for breakfast over the pond.

 

A receipe

 

110g / 4oz Plain Floyr, seived

salt

2 eggs

200ml / 7fl oz Milk mixed with 75ml / 3fl oz water

50g / 2oz butter

 

Sieve the flour and salt in a bowl and make a well in the centre. Break eggs in the centre and whisk them incorporating a little of the flour.

Gradually add small amounts of the milk and water mix, once all in whisk the mixture until it is smooth

Melt the butter in a frying pan and add 2 teaspoons to the mixture and whixk again. Put the rest of the melted butter aside and use it to lubricate the pan.

Put in about 2 tablespoons of the batter into the frying pan (7 inches, increase amount for bigger pans) and cook. when one side done turn the pancake over using a spatular or if brave by tossing!

Once done put on plate and add filling of choice.

 

The most common filling over here is to sprinkle the pancake with sugar and add some lemon juice role it up and eat.

 

So what do you do on this day...what's your favourite filling.

 

Happy Pancakes days....time to enjoy. :D

OMG! Its pancake day! I forgot!!

In Norway today is Fat Tuesday. Same principle, only you eat other fat food like meat and stuff, and not necessarily pancakes.

I can't be bothered making pancakes (lazy student syndrome! lol! :lol: ), but I will go out and buy some!

It's Fat Tuesday in Sweden too. We eat semlor:

 

 

My favourite pancake filling is raspberry jam. :D

Raena, that looks delicious much more appertising than pancakes...

I'm moving to Sweden so I can eat whatever the hell it was that Raena posted! Screw pancakes! :D

http://www.swedishkitchen.com/semlor.html

 

There's how you make them.

we eat those in norway too! its just wheatbuns with whipped cream :P and its really really disgusting, but also very very good...

And jam. Remember the jam! I am currently having a lengthy discussion with my friends on whether to use strawberry or raspberry jam with the whipped cream.

Raspberries are so much better than strawberries.

*bounces* yep yep, I had pancakes today, just with raspberry jam and butter... and another lot with sugar and squeezy lemon juice *nods* yummy

Tay never thought of using jam...Tinks wanted just sugar...bless her, thank goodness it's once a year :D Next time though I'll try her with jam...I like that idea.

We don't have jam in our semlor, we have almond paste. I don't really like it :P

Hehehe over here it was the last day of carnaval....

 

Wich is a four day event in the south of the netherlands... It really like Carnival in Rio, we dress up funny and have lots of parades. We drink alcohol nearly non stop..

But this year wasn't fun for me, my best friend got into a fight and ended up in the hospital :cry:

 

I really would love to try a Semlor once *nods*

Ew almond paste. We just have whipped cream or vanilla cream.

I just had tonnes (or is that tons??) of sugar, honey and squeezy lemon juice! Very tasty! :D

Jif Lemon Day !!!! *chuckles*

 

Aww I'm sure Tinks loved them anyway Tessa *hugs*

You're not wrong Tay...she loved them...would have eaten loads more if I had done some more mixture :roll: She likes her food!!!

I had my Pancakes today. With Lemon and Sugar! *drools* Absolute bliss!