pancakes

These are rather simple to make but if you're a young'un - please, please get permission before you set the kitchen on fire. I will not be held responsible.

Contains egg, milk and wheat.

Servings;
1 - 3 medium sized pancakes.

Time needed;
Around 15 - 20 minutes (this is a guide only.)

You will need;
1 Egg
Plain flour (50g)
Caster sugar (25g)
Milk (30ml)
Also, a large jug, sieve, a small frying pan, fish slice, measuring spoon (15ml), a desert spoon or a large table spoon, a fork and a plate.

Method;
• Sieve the flour into the jug.
To measure the flour, you don't need scales. Just the large table spoon/desert spoon. One slightly heaped spoon is around 25g, so just times it by two.
Clever, huh?

• Crack the egg into the jug with the flour.
Beat these together with a fork. At first it will appear lumpy and rather disgusting looking, but keep at it until it becomes smoother. It should be around the same consistency of custard (thick).

• Using the spoon used for the flour, add the sugar to the jug. This spoon of sugar should not be heaped (level). Mix in the sugar. It should appear a light mustard yellow colour (this all depends on the flour you use and the colour of the egg yolk, of course.)

• Add half of the suggested milk using the measuring spoon and beat the mixture again. If you think this is a thin enough mixture, skip to the next step, however, I recommend a thinner mixture, in which you add the second 15ml milk and beat until the texture of a fruit smoothie.

• Pancakes cook better when they're being cooked slowly on a low heat. The cooker I use is electric and the heat I cook these at is usually 2 (if 1 is the lowest and 6 is the highest.) Your frying pan should be very lightly oiled. Heat the pan slightly and pour in around a third of the mixture or enough that you coat the pan with a layer around half a cm thick.

• Leave this to cook. You'll know when to flip it, because small holes and bubbles will appear, LIKE THIS. Leave the other side to cook for around a minute (or however long you think looks about right, really) and move it to the plate.

• I would use this step to teach you how to eat it, but I think you probably already know what to do. ENJOY!

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