Chichester Yacht Club Magazine December 2017 | Page 26

Dickenson's Real Meals... Rudolph Pancakes
Ingredients
► 150g self-raising flour
► ½ tsp baking powder
► ½ tbsp golden caster sugar
► 1 egg,
► beaten
► ½ tbsp maple syrup
► plus extra to serve
► 150ml full-fat milk or semi-skimmed milk
► vegetable oil, for frying
► a few drops of red food colouring
► icing sugar, for dusting
► You will need
► 2 squeezy bottles
Method
Mix the dry ingredients in a bowl with a pinch
of salt. Combine the wet ingredients in a jug
and gradually pour into the dry ingredients,
whisking until a smooth batter forms.
Put 2 tbsp of the batter in a small bowl and
mix in a few drops of red food colouring.
Transfer to a squeezy bottle.
Put 1/3 of the remaining batter into the other
squeezy bottle, and the remaining 2/3 into a
jug.
Gently heat a drizzle of oil in a non-stick pan.
Squeeze some batter into an outline of
Rudolph, drawing two holes for eyes. Fill the
rest with batter from the jug. Make a nose
using the coloured batter. Cook for 1-2 mins,
flip and cook for 1 min more. Repeat to make
four pancakes. Serve with icing sugar and
maple syrup.
Nautical sayings in everyday use. This month:
“Scuttlebutt” — rumours about somebody’s
activities, often of an intimate and scandalous nature
Kegs or barrels were often referred to
aboard ship as “butts”. Often, when a
barrel contained drinking water, it would
be “scuttled,” or have a hole cut into it
so that men could dip their cups in and retrieve water to
drink.
Much like the water coolers of modern day offices, these
kegs became gathering places to secure some juicy gossip
or perhaps plot a mutiny.
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