OMG

By golly! Having given up on the traditional British pancake yesterday, I decided to go scouring the web for a new recipe - and discovered this, the recipe for the most delicious pancakes I have ever tried. And the best thing? You can store all the dry ingredients in a jar, already mixed up, so that you have your own pancake mix! I thought it was genius. I had some for breakfast this morning and they were YOM.

For the dry mix:

600g of plain flour

3 x 15ml tablespoons of baking powder

2 teaspoons of bicarbonate of soda

1 teaspoon of salt

40g of caster sugar

Just mix it all up and put it in a jar or whatever. It's well good! I had trouble getting it into the jar, so I made a cone out of some greaseproof paper I found and put it in that way. If the jar's big enough, you can just mix it when it's in the jar, so you don't even have to get a mixing bowl dirty. The mix will make 4 loads of pancake batter.

For the batter:

150g of the above pancake mix (it works out roughly to about 4 and a half heaped tablespoonfuls)

250ml of semi-skimmed or full-fat milk (I use a little less because the batter goes too runny otherwise - I think it depends on the quality of your flour)

1 egg

1 x 15ml tablespoon of melted butter (I put more in than it says.. just get a blob, stick it in a dish and shove it in the microwave for 20-30 seconds to melt it — much easier than using a pan)

Just mix the egg and milk in with the dry ingredients, and add the butter just before you cook the pancakes. Make sure you whisk it, and whisk it good!

For the cookin's:

Heat a pan. You don't really need oil per se because there's butter in the mix, but I do add a teensy bit of oil just in case. Our frying pan's a dick though, so I don't really have a choice.

The recipe says to spoon drops of 1.5 - 2 tablespoons of batter into the pan, but it works just as well if you use about half a ladleful. When bubbles start appearing on the surface of the pancake, flip it over to cook the other side. It should take about 30seconds to a minute, depending on how hot your pan is.

And repeat! They're lush with golden syrup, but you could have them with whatever you want to put with them - I think they'd be lovely with a dollop of ice-cream and some strawberries!

The batter mix makes about 8-10 pancakes depending on the size of them.

Right-ho, I think I should apologise for this random blog post. I don't usually post recipes, but these pancakes were so good I just couldn't resist sharing the recipe with you. Normal blogging to be resumed immediately.