It was pancake day today, and as it was also our English conversation class we decided to have a little thing all about pancakes and how we traditionally eat them here, with sugar and lemons… yes, I know lots of people enjoy syrup, honey, jam, chocolate spread, fruit etc, and since we’ve had delicious Dutch pannekoeken we have ours with apple and bacon… but traditionally it’s lemon and sugar!
I made a big batch of batter last night, and cooked about thirty pancakes, then we warmed them in a microwave today – not quite the same as fresh from the pan but the best we could do… all thirty disappeared so they must have tasted all right.
We began the lesson with introducing the vocabulary, and then we actually made some batter there in front of the class. I had already made an extra thick and leathery pancake, and everyone had a go at tossing it… with varying success… but at least it didn’t go on the floor!
Because I was busy in the kitchen I didn’t actually have one, but that didn’t matter, it was for our students anyway! … so when i have finished this, into the kitchen again, and pancakes for dinner!
Lois Elsden 
mmmmm nomnomnom. Crempog in Welsh, allegedly the origin of the English word crumpet.
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Really? Are Welsh pancakes the same? Crempog sounds more fun!
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Traditionally they’re smaller and thicker with bubbles on one side, pikelets in English I think, but I make mine like English / French ones, thin and big so you can roll them
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They sound rather yummy… does the butter/jam/syrup sink into the holes?
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That’s the idea. I think the Scots call them drop scones.
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Oh… got it! My aunty used to make them… so yum!
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