Archive for the tag 'Pancakes'

The buffet breakfast was excellent with a full selection of both continental and cooked breakfast options including traditional Maltese options. Also available were items that needed cooking to order such as pancakes, omelettes and fried and poached eggs.
Comfortably replete, we left the hotel and walked down the hill towards the Templar Memorial and the siege [...]

12 Comments CherryPie on Nov 17th 2023

Pancake Day, or Shrove Tuesday, is the traditional feast day before the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday. Lent – the 40 days leading up to Easter – was traditionally a time of fasting and on Shrove Tuesday, Anglo-Saxon Christians went to confession and were “shriven” (absolved from their sins). A bell would be rung to call [...]

8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 28th 2017

To save rushing around last Tuesday, making pancakes was saved until Saturday lunchtime.  I decided to give the new Bamix its inaugural outing.
In order to get the batter really smooth I made the mistake of slightly angling the Bamix whilst I was beating the batter.  I managed to spray batter all over the wall, the [...]

16 Comments CherryPie on Feb 17th 2013