Why do people buy pancake mix?

Yes please Knownowt - that would be great for doing the odd few!

Or you can use one of those things that has markings on the side for weights of flour, sugar etc, and you just measure up to the mark. Not super-accurate but fine for things like pancakes. Actually, I never measure pancake or yorkie mix anyway, I just lob everything together and it's fine.

I think the shakey bottle mix things are probably a bit of a gimmick, aimed at children who may want to cook pancakes once a year with their parents on shrove tuesday. so while i wouldn't buy it (mainly as the price is outrageous) i can kind of see the appeal

pancake/yorkshire pudding mixes where you add egg though...is't that just overpriced flour? ?

Saw-reeee! ?

It's fair dos if it's easier, honestly. I'm not the pancake police, I just like pancakes. ?

Last summer when I was ill, I didn't really eat a meal for months, I pretty much only ate fresh berries and every couple days, pancakes. They were always my mum's fall back for when I was poorly as a child too and c/wouldn't eat.

I love crepes style pancakes but only really have them outside (John Lewis and Dobbies Garden Centre, mmmmm) as they are such a faff to cook. I will make them on Shrove Tuesday when I'm at home and enjoyed having them made for me Mr MonkeyFingers this year.

/food/recipes/homemadeinstantpanca_87271 ah-ha here it is

Nick, it's a scotch pancake/dropped scone recipe and very thick. I like scotch pancakes too much to make American ones. ? I must try sometime though but as it's only me who eats them, I just tend to do the quick 'from memory' recipe.

i can't believe you worked more shiftier shift patterns than me, and i have basics in...

You so are the pancake police! ?

can i say that Ina (genuflects) is the best - mmm sourcream banana pancakes -- mmm

Oh heck, confession time, I buy it...........

NOT the bottled stuff (that's yucky), but I do buy batter mix, the kind you add egg and water to - so yes it's just flour and powdered milk.

I buy it because it's less messy for throwing pancakes together for the children's breakfast, and because it means yorkshire pud is an easy addition to a roast dinner rather than needing space in my crowded kitchen.

we buy them for our rainbow unit for this reason. more hygenic for kids to shake the bottle

Reminds me of making bread with my oldest...

Me: (Sudden realisation) Were your nails clean?

Son: They are now! ?

i find that quite awful actually - and really sad

Come to think of it, my breakfast pancakes are scotch pancakes - I make up a huge batch on the odd Saturday where the kids are behaving and I don't need eyes in my bum to prevent them killing themselves - and then freeze them in batches of five - they cook up wonderfully in a lowish oven.

Nigellas banana buttermilk pancakes are the best. I also like the big traditional ones but only on pancake day and when my children ask for them. But never from a mix, for all of the people that buy the 'add water and shake' style ones - does it bother you that the eggs in there would be miserable battery hen eggs? This is my main concern really. I hardly buy any pre made stuff anymore for fear of the sad chickens! I'll only buy an egg product if it's organic or specified free range.

I'm not preaching BTW - it's only as a lot of people don't think of the kind of eggs used in these kind of products before buying - educated decision & all that.

One of the benefits of living over here - decent crepes. Mmmmmmmm.

Not quite the same thing but packet mixes of any sort can be a handy stand by sometimes.

My son wanted to make cakes yesterday and we had to buy everything for them as had run out of lots of things, only thing I *knew* we had was caster sugar. Except guess what, when we got home, I was wrong, we had none of that either. Luckily there was an Aunt Bessies just-add-water-cookie-mix lurking in the cupboard which saved the day.

Anything that prevents a small child's tears can't be all bad.

No, it doesn't bother me. I will only buy free range eggs, but I don't worry that much about eggs in products. like I don't check that all my clothes weren't made in an asian sweatshop

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I think "I'm not the pancake police" is possibly one of my favourite hitched quotes now... ?

Yes it's lazy, yes they're probably not as good as home made but it doesn't offend me that people buy pancake mix. I wouldn't because it's expensive and we always have flour and stuff in anyway. But I don't always do the right things in terms of buying stuff, making everything from scratch, feeding my children organic stuff rather than potato wedges ? so I can't really cast nasturtiums. It's just another choice, right?

Why thank you PL. ?

Hmmmm. The Pancake Police. Raises a couple of questions...

How wide would their remit be? What foods would be in their scope?

And what vehical would they drive out on patrol?

a battered van

If I were the Pancake Police, I think I would use a wooden spoon in place of a truncheon and a Kenwood hand beater in place of a tazer for extreme crimes against pancakes. A flipper could be handy too, to get people back into the right pancake path.

I would imagine it would encompass all batters, including pancakes, Yorkshire puddings and Scottish chippies. ? I think any cakes which use batter, such as Nigella's, would really be better to be dealt with by the Cake Police.

A battered van would be very handy!

What exactly is "mince and dumplings" ? yes i know what dumplings are, but what do you do with the mince?

Mince will be in (probably bisto powder/oxo cube) gravy and will probably have chopped onion plus maybe diced carrots too. Usually served with mash potatoed (hopefully not out of a Smash can ?) and peas.

BTW, the bisto thing isn't a judgement or criticism btw, if I make mince and tatties, I use bisto powder and I'm not ashamed to admit to using an oxo cube in my Scottish steak pie. I was being factual, just in case anyone thinks I'm the gravy police as well as the pancake police.

The smash was a judgement though. ?

... and now I'm going to go and get the beef mince I have in the freezer to make mince and tatties for dinner. ? I haven't had a craving for this ever and I've not even made it since living with my mum!

I'll need to call my mum to find out how to do it our way as I have forgotten. ?

<<SIGH>> One of my mostest favouritest meals when we went camping as kids was tinned minced beef, tinned sweetcorn and Smash - FABULOUS!!! ?

I can relate to that when we went on guide camp we had to make smash and angel delight in washing up bowls as they were the biggest bowls we had!...I think I'd be stepping away if someone passed me angel delight that had been made in a washing up bowl now.

We used to have Smash and cheese on guide camps, sometimes with beans, I think!

I do have Smash in the cupboard actually, I bought it for Nigella's potato cakes (it tickled me when she mentioned if anyone is to appalled to buy Smash, they were to go to a organic food market and buy dried potato flakes if it made them feel any better about it). My H eats it too but it's no secret he likes some weird foods...

And that reminds me, the one time pancakes in a bottle are useful is camping.

Smash <vomits>. My stepdad served this up on Boxing Day with the leftover turkey. I was suspicious before I even tried it as there was a kind of scum around the outside. IT was much worse than I remembered ?

I use shakey bottles of just-add-milk pancake mix for our once a year Children's Club Pancake fiesta - it's just so much easier and it's me cooking them, not the kids. I make the real thing at home - but no sugar in mine, just flour, egg and milk. It's usually a bit lumpy though. I'm also hopeless at Yorkshires, I don;t know why but mine are always awful, so I use Aunt Bessies ready made ones <hangs head in shame>. It's one of the only convenience foods I use...ah no, fish fingers and frozen pizza would come under that category too, and ready made pastry ?