by Tommy Hayfield

Created on: February 02, 2010

You need not be bored with traditional pancakes from a box in the United Kingdom on Pancake Day.  Every region of the United Kingdom has a style of making Pancake Day special much like the United States has a different kind of barbecued ribs as you pass through different states. 

English Pancake Fare 

In England there is a pancake that is served on Pancake Day made to be rolled up in a tube, drizzled with lemon juice, and served with caster sugar (super fine sugar).  This Pancake Day recipe is made with milk, eggs, butter and can also be served with syrup and jelly.  One starts by stirring the butter into warmed buttermilk and gradually stirring in the flour as well.  The butter in the ingredients is melted and added to the flour mixture.  It is cooked on a griddle like a pancake.   

Irish Pancake Ideas 

The Irish are known for potatoes and for potato pancakes as well.  An Irish Pancake Day breakfast might include several potato pancakes served with apple sauce on top.  Some might think of this as a German or Polish recipe but the Irish serve it as well.  Start the recipe by finely grating potatoes and onions into the flour mixture.  Eggs and milk also go into it as well before the potatoes and onions do.  The pan or griddle is greased with butter and pepper is served on the potato pancakes which are fried and served like pancakes. Add applesauce if you wish. 

Scottish Pancake Day Recipes 

This Scottish recipe for Pancake Day is unique.  The ingredients are milk, flour, bicarbonate of soda, caster sugar, oil, and eggs.  The soda and flour are sifted into a bowl and the sugar, oil, eggs, and some milk are added.  The consistency should be that of double cream.  Cook on a griddle by the tablespoonful.  Serve with syrup or jelly or as is. 

A Welsh Pancake Day Recipe 

The Welsh have a recipe for Pancake Day which isn't called a pancake but a crempog.  The ingredients are butter, buttermilk, sugar, bicarbonate of soda, salt, vinegar, eggs, and flour.    Start by sirring butter into slightly warmed buttermilk until butter is melted.  Gradually pour buttermilk mixture into flour and beat well.  You need to sit this aside for at least half an hour.  Separately stir together sugar, bicarbonate of soda, salt, and vinegar into beaten eggs.  Pour this into flour and milk mixture that has been standing for a while.  It can stand for at least two hours before combining the two.  Beat well.  Cook like a pancake and serve with syrup or jelly or anything you please.

All the recipes I mentioned can be read in their entirety on the sites listed below.

Sources:

http://www.britishfood.about.com

http://www.scottishpancakes.html

http://www.foodireland.com/recipes

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk

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