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I confess that I have absolutely no romantic attachment whatsoever to rainy days, or climates.
Perusing pancake recipes at the moment.
Ah, right -- Shrove Tuesday, yes? That's such a delightful tradition you guys in the UK have, with the pancakes! We don't seem to do that in the US.
Thinking about getting started with my income tax return -- I like to do this early and be done before spring and nice weather does begin to set in.
Thinking about getting started with my income tax return -- I like to do this early and be done before spring and nice weather does begin to set in.
Yum pancakes. Russians do a similar thing with blini before Orthodox Lent. Now I'm hungry and I just had a snack of organic almonds and pumpkin seeds.
Yes.
I confess that I have absolutely no romantic attachment whatsoever to rainy days, or climates.
Perusing pancake recipes at the moment.
I think that I am reading about them, rather than actually planning to prepare some.
There is a knack to getting them right.
Actually, it (Shrove Tuesday) is an old (pre) Lenten tradition.
So, it would go back to pre-Reformation times, to Catholic times.
In fact, in southern Europe, or parts of Europe (and indeed, South America) with a Catholic tradition, - Venice, Croatia, southern Germany, Austria, Spain etc - you'll find (but, not in Covid times, for obvious reasons, alas) the often spectacular Carnival tradition, which leads into - or, immediately precedes - Lent.
However, as a child, I loved it, - Mother, ingredients to hand, her ancient - sort of battered - cookbook out, suitably dog-eared at the open pancake or crepe page, (I recall being instructed to read the recipe out to her, when I was around six or seven - I can see now that she thought that good practice re reading) and, then, the prepared batter "resting", and, later on, voilà, pancakes.
I never had an issue. For me the key was always a very runny batter and a very hot pan. But my recipe was just in my head. No measuring.
Very runny, yes, and a hot pan - I seem to recall that Mother had grated a little lemon, or orange, rind into hers; yum.
Well, when we were children, Mother prepared them only once a year, on Shrove Tuesday, (and yes, I loved them) - hence, the consultation with the recipe, to get the proportions of the respective ingredients right - whereas, some of her other recipes, she could do in her sleep.
I used to cook them fairly regularly for Miss AFB when she was with us. It was one of the few things I’d cook for her.
Why do some folks say this? Absolute nonsense. We get weeks and weeks of dry weather here in the UK. I think people tend to forget the weeks where the temperature reaches the 30ºCs in summer. A quick Google search shows that the average days the UK gets in rainfall a year is 133 days.
OK. Rant over. I just hate summer so those long hot days seem to me last forever.
It's pretty wild to think about the fact that it's colder in Texas, of all places, than it is in Finland at the moment. That's messed up with the power grid and all the folks with no electricity. Good that yours is still up and running.
EDIT: Turns out it's a bit colder here along the Eastern border, but still. My world basically consists of about 6 square blocks at the moment.
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Flour, egg, milk and water.
We definitely get more than that here. Our local town has been flooded several times in the last year. But yes I get what you are saying. Although us brits like to complain about the weather, actually it’s generally not too bad. Not too hot. Not too cold. Just somewhere in the middle.
Then served with lemon and sugar. Or jam. Nutella. Golden Syrup.
Lemon and sugar is what Mother served with pancakes; in later years, I also served stewed apple.
OK, I have to counter with the CWA Scone recipe.
(Actually there is no one CWA Scone recipe. Each state branch had its own recipe, and then many members had their own versions, but this is said to be a good one)
(Actually there is no one CWA Scone recipe. Each state branch had its own recipe, and then many members had their own versions, but this is said to be a good one)
I nearly had to go to PC rumours instead!