Yorkshire puddings and pancakes.

We had an extended Shrove Tuesday - it  started on Sunday  and finished this morning.

I know that Yorkshire puddings and pancakes are different but they both use flour,  eggs and milk so......

We don't often eat pancakes, I don't know why as they are so economical and  so tasty and quick to make.  Usually we have Yorkshire puddings with our Sunday roast dinner - although it's a tradition to eat them with roast beef, we rarely buy that and eat them instead  with pork, chicken or jabalí  (yes, there's still some in the freezer)

Last Sunday was a roast pork day plus Yorkshire puddings.  We only ate half of them, the other half did another meal with some of the left-over pork which I minced up and made into albondigas and served with a really thick onion gravy.  More caramelised onions than gravy  but gorgeous.  There was also some batter left so I put it in the fridge and on Tuesday I added some more milk to thin it slightly and we had traditional pancakes.  They were so delicious that on Wednesday I made scotch pancakes for a mid-afternoon snack (totally unnecessary but lovely) and the remaining scotch pancakes we had for breakfast today. 

I know that Yorkshire pudding batter and traditional pancakes have a slightly different balance of eggs, milk and flour  but the batter worked surprisingly well as a pancake.  Maybe the addition of a big dollop of red grape jelly helped - although by the time I'd rolled the pancakes up it had melted and run out onto  the plate.

And the traditional lemon and sugar pancake?  Well it was raining and the lemons were still on the tree.   It's drizzling again and the lemons are still waiting - we'll just have to have pancakes again another day!

To make scotch pancakes you need:
120 g self raising flour               1 egg and 1/4 pint milk whisked together
30 g sugar
pinch of salt

Add egg and milk mixture to dry ingredients and whisk well.  Drop 1 tablespoon onto  a hot greased pan / griddle.  When the surface bubbles, turn over and cook the other side.  Makes 14. 

Just add butter and jam.....so quick and easy!