With or without ice-cream, chocolate sauce, covered in Nutella or just your average lemon and sugar, tomorrow brings one of my favourite days of the year.
Pancakes are about the only thing i can conjour up in the kitchen and here’s how i do!
Feeds 3 people (or 2 if your a savage)
- 1 Egg
- 8 ounces of flour
- 1 pint of milk (i use skimmed)
Break egg and take turns in slowly adding the milk and the flour. Mix between giving it a good belt of a handheld whisk to just gently folding it all together. If you feel the need to add some sweetner, do it now. Give it a good bit of elbow grease with the whisk and then leave it settle in the fridge, overnight is best but anything longer than an hour will do the job if yer hungry.
Why pancakes? Why Tuesday?
The reason that pancakes are associated with the day preceding Lent is that the 40 days of Lent form a period of liturgical fasting, during which only the plainest foodstuffs may be eaten. Therefore, rich ingredients such as eggs, milk, and sugar are disposed of immediately prior to the commencement of the fast. Pancakes and doughnuts were therefore an efficient way of using up these perishable goods, besides providing a minor celebratory feast prior to the fast itself
Crank on yer cooker and lube up your non stick pan with a small bit of butter or a couple squirts of that ‘One-Cal’ spray. The pan will be hot enough once you add it and it instantly sizzles. Now you can show boat it, but don’t…use a fish slice and be careful, remember you have to clean up afterwards eh 
