They. Are. Not. Pancakes

I love watching the cooks in a creperie swirling just the right amount of batter on a hotplate and coming up with a perfect crepe. Sorry - I can't do accents, apart from acutes, on this keyboard.

I bought a wooden T shaped thing for spreading the batter for crepes from a kitchen gadget shop just before Christmas. Haven't round to trying it yet.

Chap at the Exeter Xmas market folded them over and actually flippedthem straight into the cardboard holder. Very brave!

They make pancakes (crepes style), as you wait, with various fillings, sweet or savoury, at John Lewis restaurant. Very nice, very filling. Cheese and pineapple is my favourite.

Definitely known as pancakes here and also at school and Girl Guides where we were taught to cook them on a girdle.

Where I come from the things with holes in are Pikelets.

sylvia I make wheat and gluten free pancakes [ and very nice they are too!] I just use Dove SR flour [ I expect purists use plain flour.]Pancakes are so easy to make that you don't need a packet or bought ones. Nothing could be easier than flour an egg and a pint of milk.You need the frypan nice and hot and sizzling with a blob of butter, a few mins later [don't forget to flip] it's ready to eat.

soutra you are right, by the way, scotch pancakes are not pancakes, in any case they taste horrible, neither one thing nor the other.

I love the French savoury crêpes filled with Ham, melted Gruyère and fried egg. Yum!

Depends who's making them Roses

The French Galettes are made with buckwheat flour, which despite its name is not wheat. It's glutenfree and a member of the rhubarb family.
I make pancakes with it, and almond milk.
I will make the batter tonight, so it will cook properly tomorrow.

That is the recipe for Gallettes Bretonnes Jen. Other pâte de crêpes use plain flour which is used more for sweet crêpes.

I bought some dove's farm gf flour last week, might try that.

Digressing a little - do you think of fruit loaf as cake or tea-bread? I put butter on and DBH protests that you don't put butter on cake! I say it's tea- bread and you put butter on bread.

Being vegetarian, it was really good being able to find creperies in Brittany and Normandy when we used to go to France. I thought Brittany was French, Agus. Anyway, they are delicious. I used to make them for breakfast in my vegetarian guest house. Filled with bananas and sunflower seeds, or mushrooms with sesame seeds.

standard ingredients for pancakes: eggs, flour, milk. Some people add sugar.

Standard ingredients for Scotch pancakes: eggs, flour, milk in slightly different proportions. Some people add sugar.

But Scotch pancakes are not pancakes.

Gotta love gransnet logic.

patronising

Brittany is French Jen. I was just saying your recipe was regional and there are other Gallettes recipes in different regions. Regardless of all that though, as you say, they are delicious.

Way off track here but I read that Welsh people moving France do in fact choose Brittany as Breton is very similar to Welsh Gaelic.

Definitely tea bread with butter on it for us grannyisland

Well you can make them both in a pan. The difference is the thickness of batter mixture.

Dd,who is staying until Thursday, is going to make pancakes tomorrow. Both dgd1 and I adore then. Dgd2 at 4/12 is a little too young!

Granny23- we always had pancakes with jelly at home- but not THAT sort of jelly, but apple, gooseberry or redcurrant jelly (clear jam).

The last word on the subject of pancakes?

If politicians were to make (and flip) pancakes, would that make them t*ssers???

Oh, right. Thanks, Agus. I've only ever been to Brittany and Normandy. I did not realise they made galettes differently elsewhere in France.

Pancakes - aka as hotcakes or flapjacks in America according to wikipedia!

Now a flapjack to me is - well we all know don't we? Or do we, I'm beginning to wonder with all these regional variations

Soutra you really started something here!

How can a pancake be a flapjack? The world is going mad!