How to be a Pancake PRO

When even is Pancake day? Tuesday 13th Feb!

Pre-pancake making motivation -

Mix a pancake, Stir a pancake, Pop it in the pan, Fry the pancake, Toss the pancake, Catch it if you can!

Christina Rosettei (1830-94)

Here's our easy step by step guide to get your pancakes perfectly spot on!

The Recipe -

100g of plain flour
2 large eggs
300ml semi-skimmed milk
1 tbsp sunflower oil or vegetable, plus extra for frying
Pinch of salt

Chuck your plain flour and salt into a bowl and give it a good stir, make a well in the bottom of the bowl. Add about 50ml of your milk & crack both of your eggs into the centre of the circle (mind you don’t get any shell in there) and start whisking in a circular motion. Once all the mixture is combined together, beat until you have a smooth thick mixture

Once you’ve finished whisking and you have a delightful looking batter add a good splash of milk and whisk again to thin the mixture. Keep stirring and slowly add in the rest of your milk. The consistency should look kind of like a thick smooth milkshake. Don’t bother leaving the mixture for a while to settle, this is a load of rubbish and certainly not needed.

Get the pan a nice temperature, not overly hot and certainly not too low. Pour some oil in the pan and maybe a tiny bit of butter for extra flavour and even it out over the bottom of the pan with some kitchen roll. Grab a ladle and pour 1 or 2 ladles of mixture into the pan and tilt around until the mixture is even. If you’ve got your pan at a good temperature the pancake should be ready to turn over after about 30 -50 seconds.