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How To Make English Pancakes

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How To Make English Pancakes
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English Pancakes recipe. This simple recipe for pancakes is perfect for Shrove Tuesday, breakfast or dessert. Make our English Pancakes recipe today. Enlarge English Pancakes recipe. This simple recipe for pancakes is perfect for Shrove Tuesday, breakfast or dessert. Make our English Pancakes recipe today.
Serves:
4
Preparation Time:
5 minutes
Cooking Time:
20 minutes
Total Time:
25 minutes

Step 1: You will need:

  • 180 g flour
  • 2 eggs
  • a pinch of salt
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • 200 ml milk
  • 75 ml water
  • 30 g melted butter
  • some extra butter, for frying
  • some caster sugar
  • 1 lemon, halved
  • 1 bowl
  • 1 whisk
  • 1 frying pan
  • 1 serving plate
  • 1 spoon
  • 1 ladle
  • 1 sieve

Step 2: Mix the batter

Begin by sieving the flour into a bowl. This will help to make the pancakes light as air. Now add the salt, sugar, eggs, milk, water and butter and whisk well into a smooth batter.

Step 3: Cook the pancakes

Place the frying pan over a medium to high heat and allow it to warm through. When hot, add a little of the melted butter, and then three quarters of a ladle of the batter. Move the mixture around so that the batter spreads evenly over the pan. Let it brown underneath for about 30 seconds and give it a little shake to release it from the bottom. It's very important that it doesn't stick to the pan. Also the top should look almost set.

Step 4: Toss the pancakes

Flip the pancake over. Don't worry if you can't do it the first time.Practise makes perfect! And you can always use a spatula! Cook it for a few seconds more and remove. Place the pancake flat on the serving plate. Repeat exactly the same process with the rest of the batter.

TOP TIP: Flip the wrist so that the pan moves in an upward arc which causes the pancake to slide up and out of the pan. A direct lift leaves a partial vacuum under the pancake which tends to keep it in the pan. The movement in the arc supplies the torque to flip the pancake.

Step 5: Garnish and serve

Place the pancakes flat on a plate. Squeeze a little lemon and sprinkle a little sugar over each one before folding in half and then half again to make a fan shape, or you can simply roll them up! Put them on a serving plate, sprinkle over more lemon and scatter over a little more sugar and serve. Warm and cheering, they make the perfect way to celebrate "Shrove Tuesday" or every day!
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Tips & Comments
  1. MsSaiJ

    excellent video! just made my own pancakes after watching this video! was so helpfull!! thanks a lot guys!! i love pancakes yummm :)]xxxx

  2. enile

    Lemon and sugar are OK for the kids, but my recommendation is tequila - the taste matches the slightly burnt flavour of the pancakes. BTW: Love54 - if like here you're adding budder to the badder then it does need to be melted

  3. Love54

    must the butter be melt?

  4. ahmz

    This was great - everyone loved it, and was very easy to make.http://ahmz-homecooking.blogspot.com

  5. amelsba

    I find these pancakes good but I think algerian ones are tastier but a bit difficult to prepare

  6. RedDaggerXL

    make WHAT you prefer, and '...but they're served SEPERATELY...' sorry for the spelling mistakes... :)

  7. RedDaggerXL

    I'm British, this is a nice video but usually: 1. No salt AT ALL 2. No butter AT ALL 3. It's served as the circle, then we fold it how we want, or we don't fold it. 4. The most popular garnish is sugar and lemon, but they're served seperatelt so we can put them on; however a lot of others are popular, e.g. jam, plain, chocolate sauce, and also when cooked in the pan, it's really nice to add raisins - try it! But mainly, just make you prefer.

  8. Kyle0ng

    Thanks a lot for the video! I followed it step by step and had really nice pancakes. I love American pancakes, had them while I was over there - but something in me always wants English ones instead, they're just more.... i dunno. Anyway I'd suggest cooking them a little more than the video says, as their's ended up just plain white, and no browning to them. Thanks tho! Kyle.

  9. rickylt

    Sorry Mrs Rebecca but you are comparing apples to oranges. American pancakes are delicious when you want American Pancakes and French crêpes or in this case British pancakes are delicious when that is what you want. It's a shame to lump all Brits in same pile because this site has many of the best recipes on the Internet; and I've checked-out hundreds. Humerous though to have an American criticize recipes when you cook with margarine, yokeless eggs and apple juice when recipe calls for white wine. Yo make great cruise missiles though.

  10. wowfood

    Step 1, make better pancakes. Sift about 40z of flour into a bowl. Add a tsp of salt. get about a half pint of milk and crack in an egg and mix until the two are fully mixed. Slowly mix in the milk mix to the flour mix. Should start off insanely thick just mix it until all the liquid is absorbed, add more mix add more mix blah blah blah. Fry over a medium high heat with 1tsp of veg oil. no butter, drop in a ladel of mix and swirl around the pan. Keep swivelling the pan until the batter goes a kinda beigh color ontop meaning the liquid is now solid. Then flip it the bottom should be brown and speckled.