Pancakes, Y'all...

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Originally Posted by Brianna

Pancakes are from IHOP people.

IHOP.

I found out how to be IHOP at home.

Just add baking powder, sugar and vanilla to the Bisquick mix. It's the supreme recipe. They will taste like cardboard otherwise.
In teeny tiny text under the recipe on the box is a message about how to make them better?! Odd they just don't include it in the main recipe. Anyway they were the best pancakes I have had outside a pancake house.

Originally Posted by limey

So long as you arrive after midnight, yes. The luckiest first footer is a tall, dark, handsome stranger bearing coal and "black bun" (a type of fruit cake) - we took coal and Christmas cake.
The tradition is that you also take a bottle with you, and offer a drink to your host in exchange for the drink they offer you. Many first footers used to be away for days at a time, staggering from one house to another. This practice is less common now, around here anyway.

I've heard about this. It's very appealing yet I'm not sure if I would want anyone stumbling in after midnight. I guess the point is to be stumbling into someone elses house after midnight.

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About to start putting together our pancake dinner.
Just came on here to check the translation from American into English (temperature) on Jinx's bacon suggestion.

Have sausagemeat to make into patties - not sure how well they'll work out. Mum's in charge of the frying. She doesn't trust me not to ruin the hob.

So I'm pancaking and baconing before they get home, then she's sorting eggs & sausage.

I hope to report a successful outcome!

[Sundae]

Forgot to report back!
We had a nom nom nom time.
I made the patties too thick, but the bacon worked a treat. Mum fried the eggs and did so very well.

All gorgeous!

Some time this week we are having buttermilk pancakes again, with cherries in kirsch. Part of my gift from Dana? Nope, already scoffed those ones. But Mum enjoyed them so much that when I found a little bottle of kirsch for sale I bought it. I doubt the tinned cherries have any real capacity to suck up the kirsch, but they've been soaking for over a week now.

Even if we only spoon the cherries out, then Mum can swig back the remaining mixture