Latter day pancakes.

[Leonard James]

I have just made and consumed some pancakes (yes I know it should have been last Tuesday, but when you get old it's difficult to keep up).

I would never have tackled such a task had it not been for the fact that in the local supermarket I spotted a plastic bottle which announced "Just add milk, shake and fry". So I thought what the hell, there's a load of  lemons falling off the tree ... go for it!

After the first one, which was a bit tough, I got the hang of it, and had a ball. Hugh was pleased, so I must have made a good job of them.

Add all that to your book of useless information. 

EDIT.

Success has gone to my head so I'm going out to get a Chinese take-away for dinner tonight!   

[ekim]

That's quite amazing, to be able to make a pancake out of a plastic bottle.  No wonder it was tough.  I'm going to try it with one of my milk bottles.

[Leonard James]

That's quite amazing, to be able to make a pancake out of a plastic bottle.  No wonder it was tough.  I'm going to try it with one of my milk bottles.

 

Beast!

[floo]

I remember my Dad offering to toss a pancake when I was a kid. He tossed it too high and it stuck to the beams in the kitchen, much to my mother's annoyance. 

My husband also managed the same feat years later, much to our children's delight and my irritation!

[Leonard James]

I remember my Dad offering to toss a pancake when I was a kid. He tossed it too high and it stuck to the beams in the kitchen, much to my mother's annoyance. 

My husband also managed the same feat years later, much to our children's delight and my irritation!

I didn't dare try to be so ambitious! I turned them with the spatula ... not too successfully I might add. 

[Leonard James]

I remember my Dad offering to toss a pancake when I was a kid. He tossed it too high and it stuck to the beams in the kitchen, much to my mother's annoyance. 

My husband also managed the same feat years later, much to our children's delight and my irritation!

I didn't dare try to be so ambitious! I turned them with the spatula ... not too successfully I might add. 

[ekim]

I remember my Dad offering to toss a pancake when I was a kid. He tossed it too high and it stuck to the beams in the kitchen, much to my mother's annoyance. 

My husband also managed the same feat years later, much to our children's delight and my irritation!

Some people have got to bring sex into everything.

[SusanDoris]

A while back, I bought a box containing a packet of batter mix, enough for five or six portions of about 6 pancakes. On Wednesday this week (I take no notice of relevant days!!) I decided to make some. Using my talking weighing scales, I weighed out the milk, the water, and the 100g of mix. Put all, plus 1 egg into the beaker and whisked it all together, with the electric mixer thing, and made five pancakes. I had two lemons and caster sugar. By the time I'd finished, there was pancake mix all over the place bits of pancake stuck to the hob and every surface needing a good clean!!! But the pancakes with plenty of lemon were very tasty.  When my cleaner came yesterday, she found plenty more places which needed cleaning! I decided not to bother about making any more pancakes, so gave her the rest of the mix.

ETA: I used a spatula too - but since I had managed, quite by chance, to cook them for just enough time on one side, they turned over very neatly!

[Jack Knave]

That's quite amazing, to be able to make a pancake out of a plastic bottle.  No wonder it was tough.  I'm going to try it with one of my milk bottles.

I've seen those in hospitals full of piss!!! 

[Leonard James]

A while back, I bought a box containing a packet of batter mix, enough for five or six portions of about 6 pancakes. On Wednesday this week (I take no notice of relevant days!!) I decided to make some. Using my talking weighing scales, I weighed out the milk, the water, and the 100g of mix. Put all, plus 1 egg into the beaker and whisked it all together, with the electric mixer thing, and made five pancakes. I had two lemons and caster sugar. By the time I'd finished, there was pancake mix all over the place bits of pancake stuck to the hob and every surface needing a good clean!!! But the pancakes with plenty of lemon were very tasty.  When my cleaner came yesterday, she found plenty more places which needed cleaning! I decided not to bother about making any more pancakes, so gave her the rest of the mix.

ETA: I used a spatula too - but since I had managed, quite by chance, to cook them for just enough time on one side, they turned over very neatly!

Sounds a bit like an old music hall number my parents used to sing.

Our parlour wanted papering Pa said it was waste
To call a paperhanger in and so we made some paste
He bought some rolls of paper a ladder and a brush
And with my Mummy's nightgown on at it he made a rush.

Chorus: When Father papered the parlour, you couldn't see pa for paste
Dabbing it here, dabbing it there, paste and paper everywhere
Mother was stuck to the ceiling; the kids were stuck to the floor
I never knew a blooming family so stuck up before.

The pattern was ‘blue roses' its leaves red white and brown
He'd stuck it wrong way up and now we all walk upside down
And when he trimmed the edging off the paper with the shears
The cat got underneath it and Dad cut off both its ears.

Chorus:

Soon Dad fell down the stairs and dropped his paperhanger's can
On little Henrietta sitting there with her young man
The paste stuck them together as we'd thought 'twould be for life
We had to fetch the parson in to make them man and wife.

Chorus:

We're never going to move away from that house any more
For Father's gone and stuck the chairs and table to the floor
We can't find our piano though it's broad and rather tall
We think that its behind the paper Pa stuck on the wall.

Chorus:

Now, Father's sticking in the pub through treading in the paste
And all the family's so upset they've all gone pasty faced
While Pa says, now that Ma has spread the news from North to South
He wishes he had dropped a blob of paste in Mother's mouth.

Chorus:

[SusanDoris]

Excellent!!!