With today being Shrove Tuesday, I have been amazed at the number of people that buy pancakes! Can you believe it? They are so simple to make anyway. I know that the ready made pancake mix has been available for years so that you don't have to weigh ingredients, just add milk and mix, but to buy them ready made leaves me open mouthed.
I am unable to decide whether people are too scared to try making them, too busy or too lazy!
When I was young we used to have pancakes for tea on Shrove Tuesday, they were simple pancakes with some sugar and lemon juice sprinkled on them and were absolutely delicious. Today is different as the times have moved on. You can not only buy them ready made but you have a choice of 'extras'. Anything goes from Crepes Suzettes with the orange sauce and Grand Marnier, chocolate pancakes with a chocolate sauce, pancakes with butterscotch sauce, lemon curd type sauce, maple syrup with buttermilk pancakes, Scotch pancakes with or without dried fruit and with honey or not. In fact, anything goes from sweet and savoury, so it's whatever takes your fancy!
If you don't want to buy them ready made, or you're not confident enough to make them yourself or try the packet mix, then there is another alternative and that's to buy the mixture all ready made in a container rather similar to a milk container, so all you do is give it a shake and pour into the frying pan!
As for me, I won't be having pancakes this year nor next year if my bloated waistline has not shrunk. You could say I've given them up for Lent!
I can't understand the point of pancake mix, you still have to add eggs and milk, so it's basically plain flour packaged smaller at three times the price!
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