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Tuesday 12th February 2013, Shrove Tuesday, Pancake Day.

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Pancake Day is one of my favourite days of the year. I guess it holds a few childhood memories of eating the simple but utterly delicious snack. It's quite remarkable that the starchy tasting batter made from eggs, milk and flour can be transformed after just a few minutes in a hot pan into such a delight.

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Of course the real treat about pancakes is the variety of delectable fillings that can be placed inside them. The classic is of course lemon and sugar. To this end the shops are full of those plastic lemons that squirt out the juice all over the kitchen work top. Madness. Why not use a delicious fresh lemon?

Other favourite sweet fillings include Nutella, Banana with toffee sauce, Maple syrup and for the adults a splash of Grand Marnier.

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My favourite is a dessert favoured by the travelling clientele of the roadside restaurant, Little Chef. This involves filling a pancake with vanilla ice cream and spoonfuls of cherry pie filling (it must be cherry pie filling not cherries in syrup). This is simply delicious.

I went over the top today cooking pancakes. I took the recipe and multiplied by 6. I like pancakes, I cooked 26 in total! Of course the first pancake (not included in this number) was a disaster and went in the bin. I can never wait long enough for the pan to warm up.

Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent. Time to abstain from something. I was thinking of giving up work for forty days...

 

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