Nigella's HOME MADE INSTANT PANCAKE MIX (with a couple of adaptions)

This is another one of my favourites from Nigella's Express Cookbook. I have added a couple of ingredients to the original recipe, the juice and zest of one lemon and a handful of raisins but the rest is all Nigella (aka Domestic Goddess).

INGREDIENTS

FOR THE PANCAKE MIX
600g flour
3 x 15ml tablespoons baking powder
2 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda
1 teaspoon salt
40g vanilla or caster sugar
TO MAKE THE BATTER AND THE PANCAKES
For each 150g pancake mix, add and whisk together:
1 egg
250ml semi-skimmed or full-fat milk
1 x 15ml tablespoon melted butter

Juice and zest of one lemon  

Handful of raisins

Serving Size : Makes 15 pancakes, each about 8cm in diameter 

METHOD

1.	For the Pancake mix: Mix all the ingredients together and store in a jar.
2.	When ready to make the pancakes, proceed as follows: Heat a flat griddle or pan with no oil.
3.	Spoon drops of 1 1/2–2 tablespoons of batter onto the hot griddle or into the pan and, when bubbles appear on the surface of the little pancakes, flip them over to make them golden brown on both sides. A minute or so a side should do it.   Serve with jam and butter! Yum! Weekend treat breakfast! Another great thing about these pancakes is that they are freezable, just put them in a tuppawear box, similar to the one below and freeze. As you want to use them simply reheat in the toaster. Perfect!

Chocolate, Rum and Raisin Brownies (for the Perkins girlie night in)

Taken from this wonderful cookbook which Penny bought me last Christmas:

Here's the recipe:

Here's what they are supposed to look like:

 I'll report back in an hour or so to let you know how it goes along with any adaptation which I have made.....

Here are my ingredients ^^^


Only differences from the original recipe are that instead of bars of pure chocolate I have decided to use the remainder from the end of selection boxes of chocolates. All the ones which have been sitting in chocolate jar for quite some time but sadly without a home as everyone has left them behind. 

 (I love these jars - I have several of them found at charity shops at opposite end of the country - I've been told they're from a range which came out in the 1950s/60s which were supposed to take their inspiration from vegetables - in this case onions. I do indeed have a very big soft for coloured glass in any case, I'm drawn to it like a magpie to shiny things)

The only other difference is that I have used stork spread instead of butter as it is what I had in...

Fresh out the oven.....

Just sliced.....

 

On a plate with ice cream....

yum yum yum....enjoy!