Pancake Mix.

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The thread in the other place about Pancake Day next Tuesday, reminded me of how handy cheap mix can be on a boat:

Aunt Bessie's Pancake Mix 480g (Makes 16)

It keeps well without a fridge, only needs water and egg to make up, and can provide a main as well as a pudding. As we know, a great favourite in Brittany.
Almost anything savory can be inserted to make a main and almost anything sweet can be added to make a pudding.
 
The Dutch appear to make their pancakes with a proportion of buckwheat, which improves the texture. We've not tried it at home/boat.
 
It keeps well without a fridge, only needs water and egg to make up, and can provide a main as well as a pudding. As we know, a great favourite in Brittany.


Alternatively even cheaper plain flour, eggs, milk, and a dash of salt and you're good to go!

All Aunt Bessie really saves is the milk :)
 
Thanks Doug, that's just what I need.

My wife has had the temerity to tell me she is going away on holiday next week, leaving me to make my own pancakes for the first time in my life.
 
Thanks Doug, that's just what I need.

My wife has had the temerity to tell me she is going away on holiday next week, leaving me to make my own pancakes for the first time in my life.


Good man, I tossed mine for the first time last year.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself. ?
 
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Buckwheat pancakes are delicious. A Breton speciality (galettes de blé noir) and a favourite meal of mine. Put a galette in the pan, add sausage, egg, onion & grated cheese, put another on the top and serve with a nice cidre bouché. A meal fit for a king. Well, maybe only a duke, since they didn't have kings in Brittany.

Good man, I tossed mine for the first time last year.

The pancakes or the wife?
 
The thread in the other place about Pancake Day next Tuesday, reminded me of how handy cheap mix can be on a boat:

Aunt Bessie's Pancake Mix 480g (Makes 16)

It keeps well without a fridge, only needs water and egg to make up, and can provide a main as well as a pudding. As we know, a great favourite in Brittany.
Almost anything savory can be inserted to make a main and almost anything sweet can be added to make a pudding.
They eat Aunt bessie's pancake mix in Brittany?
No wonder the french are rioting.
 
The glorious Dutch pancake (pannenkoeken), there used to be a fabulous little Dutch Pancake restaurant just off the Damrak in Amsterdam called the Kaisers Pancake House, they offered a variety of about 30 different flavoured pancakes, my favourite was 'Appel met Spek' (apple and bacon) with a helping of Stroop.
 
To make it worse, she's holidaying in the UK; at some ghastly Brexiteer hell-hole called Warners. :mad:

Having seen the adverts for Warner hotels I'm inclined to agree with your description, they look like just one level above a residential home for the elderly. (And before someone accuses me of ageism I am in my mid 70's)
 
Your not doing something right?
She can be difficult.

She refuses to wear the 'Bollox to Brexit' badge I bought her and I found out she and her biddie friends from the golf-club have been lunching at Wetherspoons. (Mind you, given the quality of the food at her golf-club, one cannot condemn her for that)
 
Thanks Doug, that's just what I need.

My wife has had the temerity to tell me she is going away on holiday next week, leaving me to make my own pancakes for the first time in my life.

Ah, my daughters favourite breakfast. Cooking them is fairly straight forward process with some people being apprehensive at the tossing stage. I cant see you having any difficulty.
 
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As anyone who lives on the Continent and nearby places can tell you, pancakes arent just for one day a year but available in cafes every day.


Within a five minute walk from where Im posting this sat on my luxury yacht in the glorious and warm sunshine, there are several such establishments. One of them sells nothing else but pancakes. Sweet and savoury. Yum.

Must be a poor people thing back there in Blighty. :cool:
 
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