Pancakes
From The new Albatross recipe book, 1930
Variation: Crepes Suzette - Fold pancakes in a hot sauce of melted butter and sugar with orange juice.
Presented as published in 1930. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from The new Albatross recipe book (1930) by Spillers Limited, page 1. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Pancakes is to make the batter thin enough. It is also a good idea to make it as long as two hours before it is required because the waiting helps to swell the starch granules in the flour, though this may not be so necessary when one uses Albatross Self-raising Flour. When making Yorkshire Pudding, do have the fat in the roasting tin very hot. (Several minutes in a hot oven will suffice). Pour in the batter and get it into the oven at once. Never let a Yorkshire Pudding wait for you. It should be taken to table and eaten the moment it is cooked. YORKSHIRE PUDDING 4 oz. Albatross Self-Raising Flour } pint of milk and water Pinch of salt 1 tablespoon hot water (last 1-2 eggs minute ) Sift the flour and salt into a bowl. Make a well in the centre and add the egg gradually, working it in with a fork or wire whisk, then work in the liquid and beat very well. Leave to stand for 1-2 hours. Make very hot, in a roasting tin, sufficient fat to give depth of }’. Stir the hot water into the batter at the last minute and pour it into the oe Sibe for 30 minutes in a hot oven. (Regulo Mark 7 or 430° ahr.), Variation |.) TOAD-IN-THE-HOLE SAVOURY Drop sausages, corned beef or any cooked left-over meat in the batter and bake. 4 (Variation II.) FRUIT BATTER PUDDING Bake the basic Yorkshire Pudding in a wide cake tin with a little very hot fat in it, for 30 minutes. When it is cooked, lift it out on toa large hot plate, and, as the centre sinks, which is inevitable, pour into the centre stewed fruit. Stewed apricots are delicious, but prunes or bottled, sweetened and heated fruit are equally good. FRIED FISH Wash and dry the fish. Put enough Albatross Self-Raising Flour to coat the fish in a paper-bag, together with a little salt and pepper. Drop each piece of fish in it and shake to coat. Shake off excess flour. Next, dip in beaten egg and then again in the seasoned flour. Fry in deep hot fat. FISH IN BATTER 4 oz. Albatross Self-Raising 1 beaten egg Flour 4 pint milk or milk and Pinch of salt water Mix flour and salt. Add the egg and gradually beat in the milk, with a fork or whisk. Dry the fish and pass through flour, shaking off excess of flour, then dip the fish in the batter and coat evenly. Fry in hot fat. (Variation) Follow the above but omit the egg. PANCAKES _ When making pancakes, use as little fat as possible inthe pan or pans. Pour in just enough batter barely to cover the bottom of the pan when it is swirled around. Turn the pancake either by tossing or with a palette knife as soon as you possibly can. The edges of pancakes must not be crisp. If you stir a dessertspoon to a tablespoon melted butter or margarine into the batte? just before you are going to cook the pan- cakes, you will have no sticking troubles, even with the thinnest pan. You can make a batch of pancakes in the morning if you are going to serve them in the evening as Crepes Suzette or with any other sauce in which pancakes are heated through at table. PANCAKES Make Yorkshire pudding batter (see page 4). Heat two small frying pans and, having added a dot of lard to each (lard is best), swirl it around to coat the bottom and pour in 1-2 tablespoons of the batter. Turn as soon as you find the underside is coloured and you can manage it, and lightly brown the other side. Keep hot and serve with lemon or orange juice or syrup. 5 (Variation) CREPES SUZETTE These exotic French pancakes are just good, very thin ones, reheated in a chafing dish or frying pan, in which has been melted together butter and sugar. Lump sugar is used and it is first rubbed over the skin of an orange to take on the taste of the orange. The juice, too, is added and then a little Curacao, but we can do without that. Fold the pancakes in this hot sauce and they are ready to eat, and very delicious. OVEN PANCAKES 3 oz. Albatross Self-Raising 1 egg Flour Lemon essence Pinch of salt + pint of milk
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