Pancake Time

I remember when pancakes used to be a once-a-year treat, to be enjoyed on Pancake Day in February or March.  Now we often find them a quick and tasty lunchtime snack.
Shrove Tuesday is a moveable feast, always falling 47 days before Easter Sunday, and it has become a tradition to mark the day before the start of Lent by eating pancakes.  In some places there are even pancake races.
I  use a very simple and straightforward recipe — a cup of flour (in our case, always gluten free), a cup o milk and an egg, along with a pinch of salt and a teaspoon of sugar.
I don’t profess to be an expert at tossing them and usually play safe by using a plastic spatula to turn them over in the pan.  But a few minutes cooking either side, a generous sprinkling of sugar and lemon juice, and lunch is ready.
On one occasion we had a visitor from Denmark staying, and she came up with the idea of making pancakes for my breakfast.  Great.  But I had to draw the line after she had cooked the seventh..  But that was at the time when we always regarded them to be strictly the treat for the one day of the year before the start of Lent.
 
So when the question was asked today “What can we have for lunch?’, this was the quick answer with the minimum of fuss.  And just as satisfying as it is on Shrove Tuesday.