Delia Smith Pancake Recipe

Earlier I tried the Delia Smith recipe earlier. I didn't think about what to expect because I've no idea how big a cook she actually is. 

    

110g of Flour
200ml of Milk (+75ml of Water)
2 Eggs

I can't express enough how bad this recipe is. The mix was so thick that it barely even spread out across the little hobs and took ages to cook. When they were cooked they were so stodgy that the knife barely cut through them, and I could only bring myself to eat twelve of these, whereas I managed to eat twenty of each of the previous two.

I feel like this photo best illustrates how thick and stodgy these pancakes were. The ladel was lighter than the mix. It sat on the surface of the mix. It was offensively thick.

BBC Good Food Pancake Recipe

This evening I tried the recipe for BBC Good Food pancake recipe, it's fair to say I wasn't expecting as much from this recipe as the last one.

      

2 Eggs
100g of Flour
300ml of Milk

     

Given the lower hopes for the recipe, I was very impressed with this recipe, they were considerably better than the previous recipe, and probably better than I've ever made pancakes before. I got a mate to try some and he said they were the best pancakes he's ever eaten.

Tante Marie Pancake Recipe

Today I tested the first pancake recipe in the last post, the one by the supposedly famous French chef.

        

100g of Sugar
2 Eggs
200ml of Milk
100ml of Water

 

I had really high hopes for this recipe, given that it was suggested as the best pancake recipe by some top chefs. Unfortunately I was let down slightly.

I topped them with golden syrup because it is something that is easily quantifiable in the sense that you can see how much you put on, whereas this isn't the case with something like lemon juice. Doing this means I can better compare the recipes.

I was disappointed with them when eating them in a stack, because they seemed quite stodgy, slightly more so than the usual pancakes I make, which doesn't really have a recipe as I tend to measure it by eye. When eating them individually however, I thought they were better than usual as they were quite fluffy. I imagine the effect of piling them on top of each other takes away from this. My housemate and flat mate from last year was around at the time, I gave him some to try, and he agreed with me, but thought that they were slightly better than my own mix.

Whilst he was there, I gave him some with caramel ice cream on them as that had gone far in the previous section of the project.

He agreed that it was really nice and said that the difference in temperature between the hot pancakes and the cold ice cream was surprisingly nice.