Today is Shrove Tuesday, or Pancake Day, the traditional feast day before the start of Lent.
It’s also Findus’s birthday! And he loves to make pancakes on his birthday.
Pancake Recipe
5 eggs
600 ml/21 fl oz/2.5 cups milk
2 tbsp sugar
1 tsp salt
500 ml/18 fl oz/2 cups flour
100 ml/4 fl oz/0.5 cups water
2 tbsp butter
200 ml/7 fl oz/0.8 cups double cream
Jam
- Mix the 5 eggs, half the milk, sugar and salt.
- Add the flour and mix until smooth with no lumps. Add the remaining milk and water. Leave to sit for a moment.
- In a frying pan melt the butter and add this to the mix so you don’t have to use so much butter between pourings. Cook the pancakes and let them cool.
- Whip the cream. Spread the cream and jam alternately on the pancakes. Decorate.
To read about Findus and Pettson’s adventure while collecting the eggs for these pancakes see Pancakes for Findus by Sven Nordqvist, now also available as an ebook.
