Gloucester Pancakes is a traditional English recipe for a classic pancake made from a flour, baking powder, egg and suet pastry that's rolled, cut into rounds and fried in lard before serving. The full recipe is presented here and I hope you enjoy this classic English version of: Gloucester Pancakes.
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This is a traditional pancake from Gloucestershire that incorporates suet into the batter and which is traditionally fried in lard. Though savoury in flavour they are traditionally served either at breakfast or for pancake day with golden syrup. Essentially these are the wafers or wafres known during the Middle ages and Tudor times that have survived to the modern day in regional English cookery.
Ingredients:
175g plain flour
pinch of salt
1 tsp baking powder
90g shredded suet
1 egg, beaten
milk to bind the mixture
lard for frying
Method:
Sift together the flour, salt and baking powder into a bowl. Add the suet and stir to combine then stir in the egg. Now stir in just enough milk to bring the mixture together as a dough.
Turn this dough out onto a floured work surface then roll out until about 1cm thick. Use a pastry cutter or glass to cut them into 9cm diameter rounds. Roll out any scraps again and cut out more rounds.
Melt lard in a frying pan and when hot, add some of the pastry rounds. Fry for a couple of minutes per side, until golden brown and heated through. Serve hot accompanied by golden syrup.
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