When I'm camping I like pancakes/crepes for breakfast. They are easy to make; simply break 2 eggs into a small billy, fork or whisk in any kind of flour until you make a stiff dough then stir in milk (open a packet of UHT milk if needed) to produce a fluid batter. Pour 1/4 of the mix into a hot lightly oiled frying pan and watch your pancake appear.
You could buy a pancake mix to which you have to add eggs and milk, but you are actually buying expensive flour in a plastic bottle.
Knowing I plan to make pancakes I arrive equipped with sugar, lemon juice, chocolate sauce squirty honey and squirty strawberry jam for those finishing touches.
In June I camped in Essex in glorious warm weather but my tent was shaded by an oak tree. My usually aggressively hot stove fuelled by refillable Campingaz failed to raise the temperature and the pancakes absorbed the oil and stuck to the new non stick pan.
Going to France this month I took my Campingaz Xcelerate 400s stove powered by a Calor Gas Propane cylinder. My pancakes cooked quickly and perfectly.
The moral of this story is that if you love the smell of pancakes in the morning convert your stove to Propane.
PS I haven't been able to find anywhere to exchange empty Campingaz 901 cylinders in France for the past 2 years. I use them with gas lamps. Campingaz refills are getting harder to find in France so we might as well take Calor Gas for stoves.
We use refillable Gasit propane tank in van now but up to last year exchanged our 907 at supermarkets most years. We have a 901 as a backup & saw them too, in smaller stores.
Can't beat pancakes! We love then & I must confess to using the cheat mix when camping. We've just got a couple of Ridge Monkeys (less spitting in the van) so will be trying them for pancakes soon.
Quote: Originally posted by Bramston on 24/7/2019
When I'm camping I like pancakes/crepes for breakfast. They are easy to make; simply break 2 eggs into a small billy, fork or whisk in any kind of flour until you make a stiff dough then stir in milk (open a packet of UHT milk if needed) to produce a fluid batter. Pour 1/4 of the mix into a hot lightly oiled frying pan and watch your pancake appear.
You could buy a pancake mix to which you have to add eggs and milk, but you are actually buying expensive flour in a plastic bottle.
Knowing I plan to make pancakes I arrive equipped with sugar, lemon juice, chocolate sauce squirty honey and squirty strawberry jam for those finishing touches.
In June I camped in Essex in glorious warm weather but my tent was shaded by an oak tree. My usually aggressively hot stove fuelled by refillable Campingaz failed to raise the temperature and the pancakes absorbed the oil and stuck to the new non stick pan.
Going to France this month I took my Campingaz Xcelerate 400s stove powered by a Calor Gas Propane cylinder. My pancakes cooked quickly and perfectly.
The moral of this story is that if you love the smell of pancakes in the morning convert your stove to Propane.
PS I haven't been able to find anywhere to exchange empty Campingaz 901 cylinders in France for the past 2 years. I use them with gas lamps. Campingaz refills are getting harder to find in France so we might as well take Calor Gas for stoves.
If you just stopped rambling on for a minute, about how, what, and why, and changed the subject to when and where, maybe some of us would take more interest, and actually accept your kind invitation to join you for breakfast!
You won't be in France first two weeks in September by any chance, will you?
I have started substituting halloumi cheese for bacon in my camping butty - it makes less of a greasy mess in the pan, but has the same substantial and salty character (with extra squeak). Also it is cheaper, bought from Lidl.
If you really must have your pancakes, why not go for the easy mess free kind, just buy a pack of ready made ones that just need a minutes warm up in a dry pan each?
Most large supermarkets and that big highstreet frozen food store sell them vac-packed in their chilled cabinets and bakery isles, fairly cheap too, at around £2 for a family pack of 6 to 8 pancakes!
Julia
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Oh yes, pancakes for breakfast, we have recently returned from France, having been down to Frejus.
All but one of the five “Premiere Classe” hotels that we used, served up freshly made pancakes for breakfast, they were delicious, especially with some honey on top.
£31 per night was the average cost for our five “Premiere Classe” hotels, a small price to pay, for what is the perfect way to break up the long journey South, and back again.
The pancakes were a bonus!
Julia, I think those are the type that “Premier Classe” use.
Quote: Originally posted by romany girl on 25/7/2019
If you really must have your pancakes, why not go for the easy mess free kind, just buy a pack of ready made ones that just need a minutes warm up in a dry pan each?
Most large supermarkets and that big highstreet frozen food store sell them vac-packed in their chilled cabinets and bakery isles, fairly cheap too, at around £2 for a family pack of 6 to 8 pancakes!
Julia
I actually enjoy the cooking of the pancakes when camping if not the making of the mix. Fridge space reserved for other food!
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Topic: Pancakes for breakfast
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