Recipes

[liralen]

I tried mallen's cheesecake recipe over the weekend, using lime instead of lemon and it came out wonderful.

I also tried the recipe genitiggie posted for Shrove Thursday pancakes this morning because with all the sleep deprivation, I had to do something nice for myself, and I cut the recipe in half and had very nice, eggy, tender pancakes with sugar for breakfast. I think that, however, one should use the ml measurements on the liquids, as the fluid oz measurements are a bit bigger and it was kind of thin to start.

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Pancakes

[genitiggie.livejournal.com]

I think it *is* thin as compared with US pancake batter, but I generally measure the milk (I didn't notice she used watery milk, how weird) by saying 'this carton is a pint, now I want about half of it' :) And then, of course, the UK pint is different from the US one.

Dumb stupid me just remembered that when I unpacked only one measuring jug. Left the other one behind when I moved, what an *idiot*. I've got cup measures though so I suppose I can find out what a US pint is in cups.

Standards. I love standards.

Re: Pancakes

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Hee. I love standards, there are so many to choose from.

I actually made it with self-rising flour today, and they were more bubbly, the way I wanted them to be. It's good to know enough food chemistry to make pancakes more the way I want them.

Yes, the batter is very much thinner than American pancakes, and a bit thicker than for crepes, but then with a bit more batter in the pan, they come out thicker anyway. But the basic idea is just very yummy and good. Thanks for the post and the link!