Pancakes!

Delia Smith's pancakes

Delia Smith's THE chef of BBC. That's before the era of celeb chefs like Jamie Oliver, I mean. Her cooking shows tell you things that matter - stuff like, fresh eggs, when hardboiled, are hard to shell. In ther TV series, she had spent 6 whole half-hour episodes just on the various methods of cooking eggs.

And this time round, I had little doubt about the replicability (is there such a word) of this recipe. Stuck to the recipe almost perfectly, except making a minor boo-boo of mixing in the butter without melting it first (it didn't really mix).

Ingredients:
110g/4oz plain flour, sifted
pinch of salt
2 eggs
200ml/7fl oz milk mixed with 75ml/3fl oz water
50g/2oz butter

These makes 12-14 small pancakes, or 7 of the large pancakes which I had made. Feeds about 3 people for breakfast.


The final result looks great, but the camera's wonky auto-white-balance feature belies the golden yellow of the pancakes.

I made them barely-cooked, so that they're still chewy and soft, rather than the light and fluffy ones most people would prefer.

Call me crazy, but I'm a sucker for the taste/smell of half-cooked flour.

Verdict? You gotta use even less butter than that or they'll simply soak up all the oil and end up greasy. And adding baking powder might make them fluffier. They're sorta plain because there's no sugar in it, so you gotta add quite a lot of maple syrup for taste.

Despite, it's yummy and met my expectations!

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Offtopic, but here's the beef steak I had made a couple of days back. Too much paprika powder and the cut of beef was tough (you could literally see the fibrous connective tissue planes when you tear it apart).