Planc pancakes

Name: Planc pancakes
Yield: Makes about 12
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 300 ml milk; Butter and jam or honey, to serve; 1 tbsp brown sugar; Small nugget of butter, melted; ½ tsp salt; 1 tsp baking powder; 2 eggs, forked to blend; 500 g strong white flour

Preparation info

Makes about
12

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Cook’s Year in a Welsh Farmhouse

By Elisabeth Luard

Published 2011

About

Like a fluffy pancake, bara planc is one of the traditional teatime treats in the Welsh farmhouse. In the old days the leavening was yeast, and bacon the likely accompaniment when jam was a rare treat and butter a valuable trade item.

Ingredients

500 g strong white flour
1 tsp baking powder
½ tsp</

Europe
United Kingdom
Wales
Vegetarian
Breakfast

Method

Sift the flour with the baking powder and salt and blend in the sugar. Whisk in the eggs and milk till you have a batter as thick and smooth as double cream.

Place a bakestone, griddle or heavy frying pan on a low flame and let the heat come into the metal, gently. Wipe the surface with a cloth dipped in the melted butter, and test the heat with a drop of batter. If the batter sizzles a