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Pancake Day recipe by TV Chef Marcus Bean - Light and Fluffy Blueberry Pancake

Here is a great recipe for Pancake Day by TV chef Marcus Bean – Light and Fluffy Blueberry Pancake seems simply delicious. Good looking and self-taught chef, Marcus Bean, won Iron chef UK in 2010 on Channel 4. Preparation time: 5 minutes Cooking Time: 5 minutes Ingredients: 135g Self Raising flour 2 tbsp Caster sugar 1 tsp Baking Powder 130ml Milk 1 medium egg Small punnet of blueberries…
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Pancake recipes for all occasions

Pancakes are easy to prepare and can be used for recipes to celebrate Shrove Tuesday and beyond. Here is a collection of our favourite Pancake recipes. Just click on the pink links or on the images to be redirected to the recipes. Enjoy! London Mums own easy recipes can be found in the chat forum about Pancake Day. Pear and Vanilla Pancakes BASIC PANCAKE RECIPE If you fancy making…
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Spanish-English bilingual in England. To be or not to be is not the question! How to be it? Is.

Having lived in London for over 17 years it has always amazed me when I come across people whose parents or grandparents are from a different country and they don’t speak anything other than English. Often they say ‘I understand it but I can’t speak it’. I always thought their parents did something wrong! Now that I have children of my own I realise that it is easier than I…
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My aunt’s churros recipe - great for Pancake day & beyond

You will not believe how easy it is to make churros! My aunt Tete taught me a few Christmases ago and I can tell you she makes the best churros I have ever tasted! As always the simplest recipes are the hardest to get right but ever since we learnt we keep trying and almost get there! So, although she says the recipe must be very exact in terms of measuring, as every Spanish cook I know…
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Pancake day recipe: Pancake Rapids

Here is an amazing recipe for Pancake Rapids. Get creative while making a yummy pancake this Shrove Tuesday. Ingredients Crepe pancakes (see recipe below) Lyle’s Squeezy Chocolate Syrup Lyle’s Golden Syrup Strawberries Yoghurt Blue food colouring Equipment: Frying pan Spatula Foil Method: 1. Make up crepe pancake mix as per instructions. Add Lyle’s Chocolate Syrup to the mix and…
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3D PANCAKE PLAY THIS PANCAKE DAY - FIRST RECIPE: Desert island (21st February 2012 is Pancake Day)

If you think the annual pancake toss is flipping boring, then we’ll show you a new way to play on Pancake Day by creating a new series of edible three-dimensional ‘panscapes’ that turn the humble pancake into an edible art form that you can enjoy simply and easily at home. Leading experimental food experts Polly Betton and Andrew Stellitano have built a series of beautiful 3D landscapes…
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