Pancake Day

We should eat pancakes more often!  They were scrumptious, easy to prepare and cook and very cheap to make.  Entertaining for the cook too as I got to yelp with glee at each perfect pancake toss!

I mixed up the batter in the morning and, remembering my mum's tip for making yorkshire pudding, left the mixture to rest under a tea-towel until it was needed.  By evening it was thick and ready to go.

Our savoury pancake was filled with ham and gruyere cheese, while the sweet was just some milk cooking chocolate, melted in the microwave then poured over. Delicious.

250g plain flour

Pinch of salt

2 eggs

500ml milk

Butter for frying

Sift the flour and salt into a mixing bowl.  

Make a crater in the middle and add the eggs.  

Pour in half the milk, then whisk, adding the flour from the edges a little at a time.  Add the rest of the milk and keep going until the lumps are gone.

Add a knob of butter to a hot frying pan.  Add a ladle of batter mixture only once the butter is sizzling.  Rotate the pan to get the mixture to cover the base evenly.  

After about a minute of cooking, loosen the edges of the pancake, give the pan a shake to check it is not sticking, then flip it in the air whilst whooping with glee. 

Cook the other side then serve.