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Shrove
Tuesday, traditionally time to clear all those fatty ingredients
from your cupboard before fasting for Lent. What a perfect excuse
for making pancakes!
Pancake
Day or Shrove Tuesday is the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday and the
beginning of Lent. This year it takes place on March 4.
Use
our basic pancake recipe and experiment with our selection of fillings.
If you would like us to include your personal favourite pancake
filling,please give recipe details on the form
at the bottom of the page.
Basic
Pancake Mix
Ingredients:
100g plain flour, 1 egg, 275ml milk, pinch of salt, 25g butter
Method:
Sift the flour and salt into a bowl and break in the egg. Use a
wooden spoon to beat in the egg. Gently add the milk a bit at a
time, continue beating until you form a smooth batter.
Heat a 7 inch non-stick frying pan lightly brushed with melted butter.
Once the pan is hot, put in two tablespoons of batter and tilt the
pan to coat the base evenly.
Cook until the pancake moves freely, then toss or turn until pancake
is golden on both sides.
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Veggie feast - Spinach and ricotta
Ingredients:
2 tbsp olive oil, 1 small onion chopped, 1 crushed garlic clove,
350g (12 oz) young spinach leaves, 250g tub ricotta cheese, 1/2
teaspoon grated nutmeg, 50g (1 3/4 oz) freshly grated parmesan.
Method:
1) Preheat the oven to Gas Mark 6/200 deg C.
2) Heat the oil in a large pan, add the onion and garlic and fry
for 2/3 mins.
3) Add the spinach, cook and cover for 3-4 mins or until the leaves
have wilted.
4) Transfer to a sieve and squeeze out excess liquid.
5) Return to the pan, beat in ricotta, nutmeg, half the parmesan
and plenty of salt and pepper.
6) Lay pancakes out and spoon on filling, in a line down the centre.
Roll up and place in shallow ovenproof dish.
7) Sprinkle with parmesan and bake for 20-25 mins until golden and
crisp.
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Crispy bacon and maple syrup
Ingredients:
8 slices of streaky bacon, 50ml/2fl oz maple syrup
Method:
1) Cook the streaky bacon until crisp.
2) Top the pancakes with crispy bacon and pour over the maple syrup.
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Raspberry
and blueberry pancake sauce
Ingredients:
150g fresh raspberries, 150g fresh blueberries, 2 tbsp sugar, 100ml
unsweetened apple juice, one pinch of ground nutmeg
Method:
1) In a small saucepan, mix half the raspberries and half the blueberries
with the sugar, apple juice and nutmeg.
2) Bring the mixture to the boil, then reduce heat and simmer uncovered
for 15 minutes.
3) Add the remaining raspberries and blueberries, stirring the mixture
until it has a smooth consistency.
4) Serve warm over pancakes.
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Liquid
lunch? Pancake cocktail
Ingredients: (as long as consistent, a measure can be whatever you
want, depending on how much you want to make, ie 50ml or 100ml)
1 measure cinnamon schnapps
1 measure cranberry juice
1 measure Irish cream
1 dollop whipped double cream
Method:
1) Add the cinnamon schnapps to the cranberry juice.
2) Spoon in the Irish cream.
3) Top with whipped cream - enjoy!
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Carol's
Perfect pancake pie
Ingredients: half
pint cheese sauce
grated cheese for topping
1 LB Minced steak
1 large onion (chopped)
2 grated carrots
2 table spoons tomato puree
small tin chopped tomatoes
1 clove crushed garlic (optional)
quarter pint red wine or stock.
ground pepper
salt
olive oil to cook mince
Method:
1) Put small amount of oil in pan. Gently cook onion add minced
steak and brown.
2) Add all other ingredients. simmer for 15 mins.
3) Use non stick deep ovenproof dish a little bit larger than you
pancakes. Start with pancake and alternate pancakes and meat mix
finish with meat mix.
4) Pour over cheese sauce, top with grated cheese. put in oven to
brown. Gas mark 4 180c 350f moderate oven for 20 mins.
5) serve with salad.
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Laura's
Ice Cream and Summer Fruit
Ingredients: Tub Of Ice cream
Tin/box of summer fruits
1 lemon
Method:
1) Put the summer fruits in a blender and blend until they are a
smooth puree. Leave a few to put on top. (Halfway through add the
juice of a lemon)
2) Pour the summer fruits onto a pancake and put on a spoon of icecream.
3) Finally add the rest of the summer fruits and enjoy!
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Shrove Tuesday is the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday and the
beginning of Lent. 
