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Quote: Originally posted by Bramston on 24/7/2019

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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.

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Quote: Originally posted by spiritburner on 25/7/2019

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or make your own for a fraction of the cost 'cos there's no cafe for miles!

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Quote: Originally posted by romany girl on 25/7/2019

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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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