Pancakes with Bacon

• These are the thick American style pancakes not the thin crepes.
• A good way of serving the bacon.

Ingredients

• 2 eggs – beaten
• 180 – 200ml of milk
• 180g plain flour
• 2 teaspoons of baking powder
• 6 rashers of streaky smoked bacon
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• Sunflower oil for frying
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• Fried eggs, maple syrup or sugar, butter – to serve

Method

• Chop the bacon into small squares.
• Fry till crisp & strain of any fat.
• Keep to one side & warm.
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• Mix the flour and the baking powder together.
• Make a well in the centre of the flour.
• Mix in the eggs.
• Mix in enough milk to make a thick batter.
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• Fry large tablespoons of the batter on a hot griddle or frying pan.
• Add some bacon bits to the top.
• Turn over the pancakes and fry on the other side.
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• Serve as savoury with scrambled or fried eggs or more sweet with butter and maple syrup.

• This Pyrex design from the 1970s is called Carnaby.