Shrove Tuesday

Pancakes ... with a Delicious Difference


Shriven of our sins before the start of Lent, Christian faithfuls would use up their basic kitchen ingredients - eggs, milk, salt and flour - before their abstinence over Lent. Hence pancakes on Shrove Tuesday.

We would have pancakes every day at home, savoury as well as sweet, particularly with recipes like these.

The Perfect Orange Pancake 

You'll need: 

• 100 g of plain flour
• 2 large eggs
• 300 ml of milk
• 1 tbsp of sunflower or vegetable oil, 
• plus a little extra for frying
• Cointreau (if you have it) 
• 1 tsp of cornflour
• 175 ml of orange juice
• 1 tbsp Stokes Cranberry & Orange Sauce
• 3 tbsp Stokes Seville Orange Marmalade
• caster sugar, to serve (optional)

 
Here's how:

Put the flour, eggs, milk, into a bowl with a pinch of salt and whisk to a smooth batter. Set this aside for 30 minutes to rest.

Get the filling ready by melting the Cranberry & Orange Sauce and Seville Orange Marmalade in a saucepan with the orange juice, a knob of butter, splash of Cointreau and the cornflour until it combines to a syrupy sauce.

Wipe a flat pan with oiled kitchen roll and place it on a medium heat. When hot, cook your pancakes for 2 minutes or so on each side until golden, placing each between sheets of baking paper to keep warm in the oven while repeating the process with the remaining mixture.

Spread each with the fruity, sticky sauce and finish with a shake of caster sugar.

Just Add Stokes

Buckwheat Pancake or
Normandy Galette

Whisk 300ml of milk, 1 egg, a pinch of salt and 1tbsp of vegetable oil together in a large bowl before sifting 100g of buckwheat flour into it, whisking to a smooth batter. Rest the batter before cooking.

Add a teaspoon of oil to a hot pan, pour in an eighth of the mixture and cook for 1-2 minutes on each side until golden. Remove from the pan and place between sheets of baking paper to keep warm in the oven while repeating the process with the remaining mixture to create eight pancakes.

Typical Normandy Galettes are filled with smoked ham, runny cheese or cheese sauce and an egg, all washed down with a local cider.

Savoury Galettes

With a little Stokes Dijon Mustard whisked into the batter, the Galette Breton becomes a Galette Breton-Stokes. Chopped tomatoes with mature cheese are just begging for Stokes Bloody Mary Ketchup and a touch of Stokes Chilli Jam.

Try rolling galette pancakes around great British 'bangers' with Stokes Brown Sauce for le 'ot dog Bretonnaise.

A savoury pancake wrap for avocado crushed with Stokes Garlic Mayonnaise, a few dots of our Chilli Jam, sliced peppers, red onion and radish makes a simple, quick, and truly tasty lunch.

Smoked Salmon Pancake Rolls

These are lovely things too.

Spread a little cream cheese on your pancake with a further coating of Stokes Mustard & Dill Sauce to give the layer of smoked salmon a gravadlax-style twist, finished with ground pepper and a squeeze of lemon. 

Now, roll the pancakes tightly and slice them into pancake rolls for delicious nibbles to enjoy with drinks, friends and conversation.

Enjoy, we know you will!

Pancakes, Imagination & Tasty Stokes

More foodie thoughts for the week:




By Bread Alone - 
For 'Real Bread Week' we look at some unusual and deliciously rewarding ways of creating 'yummy' with a variety of bread- here.








Creating the Classics - 
We look into some of Stokes' early steps in creating classic beauty in a bottle and joy in a jar - here.  




 


Tasty Discoveries - 
Chilli Jam on Halloumi Soldiers! Enjoy this and other tasty discoveries to try and share - here.

If we couldn't make it AMAZING...
we wouldn't make it at all.

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