tl;dr

Just finished off a mammoth round of pancakes for breakfast. I normally use Nigella’s recipe from, umm, one of her cookbooks but I can’t find the book at the moment and Google only turned up a recipe with American units in (cups? I, for one, do not have cups that come in a standard size! What about my holds-a-full-pint tea mug for example?).

Rather than mess around converting the units I went back to Google and found this recipe on the BBC which actually turned out nicer than the Nigella recipe so I’m noting it down here for future reference.

Put in a blender jug:

• 250ml whole milk
• 2 eggs
• 50g melted butter

Whizz the blender. Then add

• 250g plain flour (don’t bother sifting it)
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 3 tablespoon sugar

Whizz the blender thoroughly. Leave to stand for half an hour. Grease a frying pan with butter, pour batches from the blender, etc. I’m not going to tell you how to fry pancakes!

These quantities make about 12 thick pancakes or so if you make them 8cm across. One-and-a-half times these quantities (I generally only make pancakes for breakfast when I have hungover company, which dictates making them in industrial quantities) is about all you can make in a 1.5 litre blender jug.

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