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yes, it's papapapapapancake day

Cool... I hope we have panckaes for tea ..

I just wanted to post the maid marion video, to be honest. I don't really do christian festivals.

Christian be damned, it's pancake day! Today I am going to be mostly eating pancakes.

I worship the god of lemon and sugar!!

Pancake Day commemorates St. Jarlath, whom the Romans tarred (represented by the syrup) and encrusted with shards of glass (the sugar) before pouring lemon juice on his wounds. He was slowly crushed to death under a boulder (the rolling) whilst having his most earnest vow forcibly broken (the tossing.)

Your god is crêpe, god of butter FTW!

HURRAY!

I need to buy eggs.

I have a 3 stage pancake dinner.
Maple syrup pancakes, for starter.
Cheese pancakes, using parmesan in the batter with butter melted on top, for main.
Lemon and sugar, for pudding.

Sir, you have raised the bar, and I salute you.

Are you sure?



I'll batter you for that.

Why is maple syrup so expensive? It's £5 in Marks and Sparkles.

Anyway, I like mine with lemon and sugar. Mmmm, but now you are making my mouth water. Nom nom.

I have no lemons though. Or sugar. Or flour, eggs or milk.

Pancake FAIL.

Well then enjoy pancake day.

Pre-Lent celebrations like pancake day are part of (or still called) Carnival. Carnival existed long before Chrisitianity and no doubt will survive long after. It was part of pagan celebrations, as well as Roman and Greek. Like Xmas and Easter, Carnival was a tradition that the Church couldn't suppress and so co-opted it into it's own religion.

So you can enjoy Pancake day in the knowledge that lots of 'hard-core' Christians are actually kinda sinning.

Also - I don't know how apocryphal this is (like all history really) but Carnival aparently comes from Carrus Navalis a festival to celebrate which marked the return of a german god on a boat. When the Christians tried to destroy this tradition they created Carnival as we know it today, and turned the God-on-a-boat into the ship of fools. The dicks.

Maple syrup? Is this Pancake day or thanksgiving. Golden syrup's what ye'll be wanting!

Also... it's about as christian as christmas these days (ie, not much)

So the Pope is Erasures Manager?

Syrup of any type is madness.

As is lemon. You want to squeeze some orange juice on. Works much better. YUM!

I was making spag bol tonight but fuck that.

But is it a bun or a batch?

I sing the Maid Marion thing every year! Strange how I remember it so well yet I struggle to remember my works PC password..

Anyway, the missus is making me pancakes tonight to cheer me up! I love pancakes.. I'm going to eat 10!

Or go a step further and bathe some orange segments in Cointreau or Grand Marnier for a while, squeeze some more orange juice into the mix, heat said mix and then pour it over your pancakes. You can, for shits and giggles, then set fire to them, which is quite fun really.

Also, I have not tried it before, but I have a feeling that nutella will be added to a pancake today, as we have a jar sitting around, and it is yummy.

ALSO! I need your help. Each year I used to call up my Nan and get a pancake recipe (for the batter, preparation of pan, etc). Unfortunately, she's no longer with us, and whilst the missus is versed in the ways of cookery, she is working a late shift and won't be home until 10pm or so. I will thusly be a good person and be ready to cook her pancakes upon her arrival home.

So... what quantities of stuff do I need, and how do I mix them?

That's because it's squeezed out of trees by hand in Canadia.
Golden syrup is like an industrial byproduct of rotted lions or something



Obtain!

Pancake cannelloni. Make pancakes, make ragu, put ragu in pancakes, roll and fold the ends in, put in dish side by side, cover with rich cheese bechamel sauce, top with parmesan, bake for 30 mins on high.

My pancake recipe:
Put some soya milk in a jug and add self raising flour. Whizz it with the hand blender. Add more flour and continue to whizz if it's too liquidy. Leave it for 20 minutes.

Fry pancakes. Remember the first one will turn out rubbish inevitably, but after that they tend towards perfection.

The two variants of Maple tree it's harvested from have to be at least 40 years old before they can be sugared. Real Maple syrup is expensive for obvious reasons - trees take a long time to grow and the concentration of the sap is something like 40:1, so you need a lot of sap to make syrup. This is why most "maple" syrup isn't actually maple derived at all but a synthetic version made using high fructose corn syrup.

The Lion on the front of Abram Lyle's Golden Syrup is a bastardisation of a biblical story involving Samson finding a slain lion on his travels and when he returned to the same spot some time later, bees had built a hive in the carcass. Abram Lyle liked the expression that this spawned - "out of strength comes sweetness" and hence the rather bizarre picture of a rotting lion surrounded by what look like flies on the tins of Golden Syrup. I'm sure there's some hokey allegorical reason behind it as well...

A friend said that she knows they're done when they 'look like giraffes'. It took a while for me to work out that she meant the brown spotty look rather than the elongated neck.

Maybe she means spitting violently.

No eggs? You a vegan?

I'd hug trees for a living to get maple syrup.

I hope that it IS real maple syrup if they are charging £5 for it, anyway. I don't like golden syrup, it is too, too sweet.

Orange juice isn't sharp enough to contrast with the sugar.

Lime is a good alternative.

It's not easy being a treehugger Mimi, trust me.


Might be, but knowing M&S it's probably just overpriced synthetic stuff It'd be a pretty small bottle for £5 if it's real anyway.



That's blasphemy to even consider it! Lemon or GTFO!

If you listen carefully, you can hear Metal Angel laughing his head off. Don't ever get him started on how hard it is to buy real maple syrup in this country, or how expensive it is. His rants on this topic, in both length and vitriol, exceed those on why New Games Are Rubbish and Trains Are Great.

I'd like to hear from MetalAngel on this one.

I'd like to hear from MetalAngel

Where the hell is he?

With Dimrill.

It was time for him to take a break.

Please explain this cryptic saying before I have you killed.

Ask Myp or Mr Chris. I never understood that one myself.

I speak to him on most days. He's ok, just taking a break from the forum. He says he'll be back sooner rather than later.

If you mention that a maple syrup-based rant is required, he'll be back like a shot!

I met some maple syrup farmers at a forestry show in Sweden once. They were really nice guys, for Americans, and they explained the tree tapping process - this is intricate, and fascinating.

Sounds like during maple-syrup-gathering season, you have the stuff coming out of your ears (err, figuratively, that's not where M&S get it).

According to wikipedia it costs about $10 per litre wholesale, which is probably about 1/10th of what we pay.

Err, really?

*snorts*

Myp, please explain it or I'll have davpaz killed.

There's absolutely no incentive for me to tell you, there.

The plan is to intersperse traditional lemon and sugar pancakes with the odd chocolate and squirty cream version.

No maple syrup at the Co-Op up the road, though.

I am going to call into Waitrose on the way home and buy lemons, sugar, milk,butter,maple syrup, cheese, some cristal, my moto, a couple of biatches, why not?

Step by step guide:

1 - Walk in Tesco.
2 - Buy box of ready to mix batter and an egg.
3 - Go home.

I used to be fussy about using ready mix stuff, but so long as you hide the box from the lady, she really will not know.

Do you top up your KY with chip fat too?