Flipping pancake day tips from Antony Worrall Thompson
The date: Shrove Tuesday, 24th February 2009
Pancake Day is a great opportunity for some fun family feasts whether you are introducing your children to the lunacy of pancake flipping for the first time, or you are all seasoned pros at scraping the remnants off the celing.
Antony Worrall Thompson has some top tips to make your pancakes taste good and flip well.
Antony said: “Pancake Day makes for great family fun. Making pancake batter is a doddle for children and assembling their own fillings and toppings creates great excitement. While children will tend to go for sweet things, adults can develop more sophisticated savoury versions to enjoy when the kids are tucked up in bed.
Antony’s Top Tips to Flip
Pancake flipping can be a sticky subject even for us ‘professionals’ but it can be mastered with some pretty nifty wrist action and a good non-stick pan!
The secret is to ensure that the pancake doesn’t stick to the bottom of the pan by quickly jerking the pan forward to loosen it. Then using your wrist to control the movement, toss the pancake with a quick upwards, outwards and back movement, catching it back in the pan so the uncooked side is underneath (hopefully!) Practice makes perfect!
For Perfect Batter, Antony suggests.
Sift 175g of plain flour into a bowl and add a pinch of salt and 1 dessert spoon of caster sugar.
Add two large free range eggs and one to two egg yolks and beat to combine.
Next mix 150mls of milk with 150mls of water and add this slowly, stirring until the batter is covered in bubbles.
Allow it to stand in a cold place for one hour. Add three dessertspoons of melted butter before turning into the pan to fry in the usual way. This will make six large pancakes.