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20 February 2007

It's Pancake Day! What are you putting on your pancakes?[More:]
I'm a sugar and lemon traditionalist, in the main.
If you make enough pancakes, you can have all the toppings - sugar & lemon on several, maple syrup, Nutella on one or two, perhaps even some ratatouille... why yes, I have forgotten the true meaning of Lent.

That reminds me, I need to go to Morrison's. Thanks!
posted by altolinguistic 20 February | 07:27
Are you cooking? I'll have blueberry pancakes with maple syrup, please!
posted by taz 20 February | 07:33
Blueberry pancakes are slightly untraditional here in the UK (are there blueberries in the shops? I have no idea), but I'll see what I can do...
posted by altolinguistic 20 February | 07:40
tell you what - can you send me some blueberries over the intertubes? Then you can have all the pancakes your heart desires.
posted by altolinguistic 20 February | 07:59
Even Lemon is not that traditional. The idea was to use up all the fats & sugar in your pantry before the 40 days of abstinence, so mixing them all together you got pancakes.
I wonder when Lemon became part of the mix.
posted by Wilder 20 February | 07:59
oh crikey, i'd completely forgotten. no pancakes for me. wah!
posted by dodgygeezer 20 February | 08:05
Peace, Love, and Mardi Gras, everyone.
posted by rainbaby 20 February | 08:23
I'm a sugar and lemon girl myself.

either that or fresh raspberries and hershey's chocolate syrup. Yum!
posted by gaspode 20 February | 08:49
And in case anyone missed it (like me) when it was on the blue: The Pancake Song.
posted by chrismear 20 February | 08:50
aw, altolinguistic! I never find blueberries here! That's why I was counting on you! We'll have to get Miko, LT, terrapin, or Jessamyn to whip us up a batch.
posted by taz 20 February | 08:53
It's pancake day today? Does that mean the start of Lent or something? Does that mean I can't gorge on chocolate and red wine (both, naturally, for health reasons).
posted by TheDonF 20 February | 09:19
Aren't bilberries and whortleberries pretty much the same thing as blueberries in the UK?
posted by brujita 20 February | 09:24
TheDonF -- do it today, you're safe. Only from tomorrow must you abstain. (A practice my choir used to wholeheartedly break with our 'traditional Ash Wednesday curry' after the evening service... but I digress.)

You can definitely get blueberries from the supermarkets here; I used to have them with yoghurt for breakfast. Not sure when they're really in season, though. Bilberries are similar, but slightly different, I think...?
posted by chrismear 20 February | 09:31
You don't honestly have something called whortleberries over there, do you?
posted by mygothlaundry 20 February | 09:32
um... whortleberries? no. sounds like a weird Scandinavian thing.
posted by altolinguistic 20 February | 09:39
yes, there probably are blueberries in the shops, but I tend to look at the country things have been flown from, rather than the name of the product, and if it's outside Europe I tend not to look further. I only buy them when French or British ones are available.

Putting them in pancakes is a bit weird over here, though - any Brits care to contradict me?
posted by altolinguistic 20 February | 09:41
on closer googling, it seems that bilberries and whortleberries are the same thing, and people in the South-West (who are a bit strange anyway) call them whortleberries. The big supermarkets just sell 'blueberries', though (regardless of what they actually are).
posted by altolinguistic 20 February | 09:53
*snort*
posted by chrismear 20 February | 10:00
I don't care what recipe they use at the Shrove Tuesday pancake supper at church as long as we get to polka!!

(But buckwheat pancakes with a little garlic and rosemary, with hot beef or pork gravy...that's my idea of nontraditional pancakes. Pesto vice gravy, in a pinch.)
posted by PaxDigita 20 February | 10:02
hee! In Finland their shape is very highly regulated.
posted by altolinguistic 20 February | 10:02
Here in the Detroit area it's Paczki (p. Punchkey) day. Sort of a big fat jelly filled donut.
posted by arse_hat 20 February | 12:08
I'll take yogurt, honey, and banana, please.

Hee hee:

Specklet Whuffleberries must:
Be whole and firm
be fresh in appearance
be sound: specklets which are spoiled or inwhuffleable due to due to fermentation or for other reasons are not acceptable
be clean: specklets should be free from foreign matter or abnormal external moisture
be loose, specklets adhering to one another are not acceptable.
be of good visual quality

Specklet Whuffleberries must not:
have foreign taste or smell
have insect or pest damage
contain more than 10% by weight of defective specklets: unripe or over ripe, defective in colour, damaged, other whuffleable specklets
contain not more than 60 particles/ kg of impurites: leaves, stems or other harmless foreign matter like sugar gliders
posted by Specklet 20 February | 13:13
I'm not having pancakes as I'm trying to wean myself off wheat and starchy foods. Plus, you can only really enjoy a pancake when it's stuffed with banana, chopped nuts and nutella, with a scoop of ice cream and a crumbled Cadbury's Flake on top.

Wait, banana is a fruit. Therefore pancake = fruit.
posted by essexjan 20 February | 13:14
wow, ej, that's some recipe.

Just went to Morrison's and they've run out of Nutella and maple syrup. Pathetic.
posted by altolinguistic 20 February | 13:28
ooh... pancakes. I totally forgot, and not having any fat-tuesday related plans (well, I don't think I can classify mopping my floor as a fat tuesday plan), it seems the perfect time to break into the Barefoot Contessa pancake mix and syrup I got for Christmas.

Although I think I'd walk over broken glass suspended in hot lava for that concoction of ej's (minus the bannana, I'm allergic!)
posted by kellydamnit 20 February | 13:44

One of the happiest memories before my own personal expulsion from Eden (I'll eventually be divorced) was cooking pancakes for myself and my son on Saturday mornings. It was one of the few cooking chores where I'd really put him in charge (while hovering withing quick-recovery range, of course). I'd measure the ingredients, crack the egg, and do the really physical part of whisking the batter, but I made him pull his share of the mess-crank duty including cleanup. And we'd get to eat oddly shaped pancakes while watching Cartoon Network. He's four states away, and our infrequent visits never seem to happen near a kitchen we can use.
posted by PaxDigita 20 February | 14:31
Pancake Day? Hm, might have to make some for dinner.

Also, lots of blueberries here in BC when they're in season (late summer?).
posted by deborah 20 February | 15:20
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