The Great Australian Pikelets Food

PIKELETS

Steps:

• Sift flour and soda together into a medium bowl. Stir in sugar. Make a well in centre. Gradually stir in egg and enough milk for a smooth, pouring consistency. Rest 15 minutes.
• Heat a large, non-stick frying pan on medium. Brush with butter. Working in 3 batches of 6, drop tablespoons of batter into pan, allowing room for spreading. Cook 1-2 minutes, until bubbles appear on surface. Turn and cook 1 minute further, until golden. Brush pan with butter between batches.
• Transfer cooked pikelets to a wire rack. Serve warm with jam and cream.

PIKELETS (AUSTRALIAN PANCAKES)

Steps:

• Sift together flour, salt and baking soda into a large bowl.
• Place milk, egg, sugar, butter and vanilla in the center of the flour mixture.
• Beat until smooth and a thick pouring consistency.
• Heat greased frying pan over medium high heat. Drop batter by the spoonful into pan.
• Cook until you see bubbles appear.
• Turn the pickelets over with a spatula and continue cooking until the underside is light brown.
• Remove from pan and place on a cloth or between layers of paper towel to cool.

PIKELETS

Steps:

• Beat the egg and sugar until thick and add with the milk to the sifted flour, salt and baking powder.
• Add the melted butter last.
• Mix until smooth and cook in spoonfuls on a hot greased griddle or frypan.

THE GREAT AUSTRALIAN PIKELETS

Steps:

• In a pouring jug, whisk together well the egg, sugar and half of the milk.
• Add the flour and mix thoroughly.
• Then add milk until the batter is the consistency of a thick cream.
• Beat until smooth.
• Pour about a soup spoon sized amount onto a preheated lightly greased frypan (You will need to start about medium high heat but after a few rounds you will need to drop it back to medium).
• Flip with a spatula when the top is all bubbly (should be a lovely golden colour), and cook the other side.
• Remove from pan and pile piklets up on a plate (cover with a paper towel so they don't go rubbery).
• Serve with jam, honey or maple syrup etc.
• Enjoy.

PIKELETS - GOOD OLD AUSSIE ONES

Steps:

• Sift the flour, salt and bicarbonate of soda together into a medium sized bowl.
• Make a well in the centre, add the sugar, egg, soured milk and the melted butter.
• Stir gradually, drawing in the flour from the sides, to make a smooth batter.
• Put tablespoonfuls of the batter on to a hot, greased griddle or fry pan.
• If the batter thickens while cooking the pikelets just add a little more milk.
• Use enough milk to make the batter the original consistency.
• Cook each pikelet until bubbles appear on top and brown underneath.
• Turn the pikelet to brown the other side.
• Continue until all the batter is used.
• Serve with strawberry jam and cream.

PIKELETS WITH BERRIES

Steps:

• Sift the flour into a mixing bowl, add the butter and rub into the flour with your fingertips until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.
• In a separate bowl, beat together the eggs and the milk, then add the egg-milk mixture to the flour-butter-breadcrumb mixture.
• Then stir in the caster sugar and mix all the ingredients until you have a smooth batter.
• Heat the oil in a heavy-based pan and drop in spoonfuls of the batter, spacing them well apart.
• Cook the pikelets until the surface starts to bubble, then flip them over with a spatula or egg-slide and cook the other side, for about 2 minutes.
• Remove the pikelets, transfer them to a plate and keep them warm. The batter should make about 8 pikelets in total.
• Once all the pikelets have been made, wipe the pan.
• Mix together the orange juice and arrowroot.
• Heat the orange juice and demerara sugar in the pan, stir in the orange juice mixture, add the berries and cook for 2-3 minutes, or until the sauce thickens.
• Whip the cream into soft peaks, divide the pikelets between 4 serving plates, top with spoonfuls of whipped cream and fruit and serve.

PIKELETS

Steps:

• Mix all of ingredients.
• Cook like pikelets.
• (Take a tablespoon of the batter at a time and drop in a frypan with butter and basically cook as if it were an American pancake - brown underneath and then turn over - should be a lot smaller than normal pancakes).