Happy Pancake Day folks!

**noby** · 06/02/2008, 8:20 AM

After you melt your cooking chocolate, add a good dollop of cream, and stir it in. Mmm. Or, you know, get your man servant to do it.

**John83** · 06/02/2008, 9:12 AM

Originally Posted by noby

After you melt your cooking chocolate, add a good dollop of cream, and stir it in. Mmm. Or, you know, get your man servant to do it.

One does not use one's manservant for culinary chores. For one, it is frightfully unhygienic.

**Bluebeard** · 06/02/2008, 9:18 AM

Originally Posted by Lionel Ritchie

We got downright adventurous with our pancakes this year. Fillings included meusli yoghurt, melted cooking choclate, and a fruit stew made from the last of last summers red berries and rasberries defrosted and gently cooked with a tin of fruit cocktail chucked in to sweeten them.

That reads so fcuking middle class I think I'm going to have to step out onto the street and ask some one to floor me with a slap.

God be with the days when, for us, the now humble tin of fruit cocktail meant it was a birthday, an anniversary, or someone in the family had died.

**EAFC_rdfl** · 06/02/2008, 9:23 AM

my efforts!!!

**noby** · 06/02/2008, 9:25 AM

Tins of fruit cocktail are the devil's chunderspew. That is all.

**Maz** · 06/02/2008, 9:42 AM

Ah the pancakes were great yesterday...we had a wide variety of fillings in my house, most had the usual lemon and sugar, some branched out for a 2nd one with either strawberries and cream, chocolate, and icecream

**Wolfie** · 06/02/2008, 12:05 PM

Originally Posted by Bluebeard

I think that Wolfie, a fellow believer, will be able to confirm this, but points 1 to 4 are all doctrinal - the 5th is optional.

The thick pancake is another shocking Americanist attempt to imporve on something that is already great by just randomly changing it

Points 1 to 4 are not only doctrinal but result in ex-communication from the Church of latter day Pancakes.

Point 5 is indeed optional and tends to be frowned upon by more conservative believers.

Indeed, Lional Richie may be sailing quite close to the wind in his choice of toppings and I'm informed he's currently under surveillance by the Opus Pie League as we speak.

**Magicme** · 06/02/2008, 3:52 PM

As i forgot to stock up on the devils juice (milk) I was limited to being able to make 5 pancakes giving the boys 2 each and me the last and smallest. Still smothered it in the genuine real McCoy canadian maple syrup me mammy brought me back from her last trip over (during the summer and there was only a tiny bit left as myself and the kids like to dine on pancakes and maple syrup quite regularly). Even though it was only a small tribute to the great feast day it was indeed devine. Nearly make me believe in religion again.

**stann** · 07/02/2008, 12:39 PM

Originally Posted by John83

One does not use one's manservant for culinary chores. For one, it is frightfully unhygienic.

Quite. Everyone knows you use the most junior of your pastry chefs for this task. It astonishes me that I even have to spell this out in this day and age.

Oh and while I'm on, Bluebeard and Wolfie are correct. Anything else is heretical, plain and simple. Point 5 is more than frowned upon in these quarters, it's getting dangerously close to Coptic Pancakery which is worse than heresy in my book.

BTW John83, I seen ya on the telly the other night. Looking good!

**John83** · 07/02/2008, 1:35 PM

Originally Posted by stann

BTW John83, I seen ya on the telly the other night. Looking good!

Ye wha?

**kingdom hoop** · 07/02/2008, 1:42 PM

You know I'm so anti-Catholic...............I take pancakes up for lent.

Well, had none on Tuesday but loads yesterday! Ice cream mostly, with hint of Flake and Golden Syrup. Sooo good.

**noby** · 07/02/2008, 1:50 PM

I often make so much batter that I eat pancakes for breakfast on Ash Wednesday, which kind of goes completely against the point.

I'm not the most religious person, but I do my bit, especially when Santa Claus, pancakes, and Easter eggs are involved.