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Jolly boys
Preparation info
- To serve
four
- Difficulty
Easy
Appears in
Published 1978
When you haven’t enough eggs to go round, you could also make these nice little pancakes called jolly boys, originally invented to fill the breakfast plates of hungry young country families when the backyard hens had stopped laying.
Ingredients
2 tablespoons 1 pinch
Method
Make a batter with the flour, egg and milk and a pinch of salt. It should be the consistency of double cream, and run quickly from the spoon.
After frying the bacon in butter or lard, remove it to a plate to keep hot. Increase the heat under the frying pan and put in a tablespoon of batter. This will run into an oval shape and rise up in the middle. Baste it with hot fat as you would a