Mother's Day

Are you showing the love this Mother's Day? Our best waitress in the restaurant, Val (aka Mum) won't be getting much love this Mother's Day. As this is our busiest day of the year at Lou Miranda Estate Restaurant she will be too busy working to realise that she has missed out on the lashings of love.

When we were younger we would surprise mum with pancakes in bed (and a mess in the kitchen) for the special day just reserved for her. The excitement of hearing the batter sizzle in the pan and the mixture puff up forms one of my first Mother's Day memories. As the youngest in our family I wasn't allowed to be near the stove so I would have a small step ladder and peer over my sisters shoulders while they prepared the meal.

Rekindling my childhood memories here is the recipes for Mother's Day pancakes (and they taste pretty good any other day of the year).

PANCAKES

2 cups S.R. Flour

1⁄2 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon bicarb soda

4 tablespoon caster sugar

1⁄2 teaspoon cream of tartar

2 eggs

2 teaspoon soft butter

1 cup sour milk

vanilla

golden syrup
Copha or olive oil for cooking

Mix all the ingredients together with a mix master. Place a smaller amount of copha or olive oil in a warm frying pan. Scoop a soup ladle full of the batter into the warm frying pan. The first few pancakes will either be undercooked or overcooked, these are called testers and are souly reserved for the chef, depending on the heat adjust your burner so the pancakes form a golden brown crust. This recipe will make a really thick batter to get a more runny consistency add extra milk. If you add too much milk the batter won't hold together, the consistency should be similar to golden syrup.

Mum normally likes to eat her pancakes with maple syrup and ice cream whilst my personal preference is with lemon juice and sugar. Other options are strawberries and cream, maple syrup and crispy fried bacon, jam and cream, poached fruits, goodness the list goes on and on.

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