Pancake day

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Did anyone have Pancake's on Tues. I didn't ss I forgot it was Shrove Tuesday.
 
I've never liked them since childhood but I have eaten them most Shrove Tuesdays.Since I have cooked for myself I have not made any.:08: :redface:
 
Pearl said:
My husband has maple syrup.................. Men are weird.
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And American pancakes are thick, fluffy and a hearty breakfast food, not "thin enough to read a love letter through" like the ones served in Great Britain on Shrove Tuesday. That description of them comes from A Glass of Blessings, one of Barbara Pym's novels.
 
Pearl said:
My husband has maple syrup.................. Men are weird.
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Over here it's a New England thing. Maple trees all
over Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont.
When the sap runs we collect it and cook it down
to make syrup. The syrup gets used on pancakes,
but also in cooking as a sweetener.
 
Marianna said:
And American pancakes are thick, fluffy and a hearty breakfast food, not "thin enough to read a love letter through" like the ones served in Great Britain on Shrove Tuesday. That description of them comes from A Glass of Blessings, one of Barbara Pym's novels.
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I've tried the thick ones you have and they are a bit too thick for me, I make the thin " See through" ones :D
 
My mothers Yorkshires and pancakes had the consistency of Ryvita. We sometimes got softer ones but not often !:08::thumbsdown:
 

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I am going to make some tonight. I've been shopping and like you Pearl I have bought some Golden syrup to cover them in.
 
cciaffone said:
Over here it's a New England thing. Maple trees all over Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont. When the sap runs we collect it and cook it down to make syrup. The syrup gets used on pancakes, but also in cooking as a sweetener.
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We used to have the first of the season's New York State maple syrup with baking powder biscuits, hot from the oven and buttered. We'd break off a bite-sized piece and dip it in the syrup. My uncle, who lived next door to our farm, had a veritable forest of sugar maples between the front of his house and the road. He tapped them every spring and boiled the sap down to syrup. Fresh, local within walking distance, and delicious!
 
captain clutterbuck said:
dare not make pancakes , well not with the advent of smoke alarms.
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Perhaps "pancakes" are a different thing altogether over there? Why
the smoke alarms???

Over here they are just a baking-powder-raised eggy dough of varying
thickness fried (?) on a small bit of butter in a skillet-kinda frying pan. No
big deal. Fry on both sides quickly, turn out onto plate, and
dress with butter and syrup. By "fry" I mean only spoon out some
of the batter into a bit of butter in a hot skillet. Eh??
 
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