DROPPING SCONES FOR A PANCAKE BREAKFAST…LITERALLY!!
Lewis Carroll
Drop Scones with whipped cream & mango
There are some meals that leave a mark on you, a stamp in your mind (or as in my case, on the DH’s)! The memories of the quintessential American breakfast my sister stirred up for us in Dallas last year is a case in point, & features in our foodie conversation ever so often. Whinge, whinge the man goes…why don’t you ever make pancakes? There is some block in my brain where I stubbornly DO NOT wish to get up early, hit the kitchen & make pancakes. But sometimes there are compulsions, & I had mine…a chef singing to me to make sure I delivered my promise of a ‘breakfast under 15 minutes’!! Heavens…I swung madly between mangoes, stuffed baked peaches, parfaits, smoothies! Then again, it had to be challenging, & something special. Was just a coincidence that night I was reading a very old baking book I had bought in 1986 (over 20 years ago!!)…‘Baking Course’, edited by Isabel Moore. Turning pages I stopped at scones…hmmm! A further read led me to Drop Scones (Pancakes) & my ‘breakfast under 15 minutes’ sang back to me. Kill 2 birds with 1 stone the brain said…have DH singing like a canary & have the Singing Chef join the chorus too! YAY!!
Quick ‘n’ Easy… Scrumptious Scotch Pancakes
DH said they reminded him of the ones he had had for breakfast at The Oberoi’s in Mumbai a while ago, & mine were better! WOOHOO!! They sold out like hot cakes, & the kids had a blast putting theirs’ together. Crossed another invisible barrier of stuff I stubbornly wouldn’t try…& now I wonder why? 
Making them…
Pancakes are a type of flatbread prepared from a sweet batter that is cooked on a hot griddle or in a frying pan. They exist in several variations in many different local cuisines. Most pancakes are quick breads, although some are also made using a yeast-raised or fermented batter. Pancakes similar to the North American pancake but smaller (usually about 3.5 in / 9 cm in diameter) are known in the UK as Scotch pancakes or drop-scones (after the traditional method of dropping batter onto a griddle (a girdle in Scots)), and in northern England, Australia and New Zealand as pikelets. They can be served with jam and cream or just with butter. In Scotland pancakes are served at teatime but mostly as breakfast. Scottish and Irish pancakes, locally known as drop scones, pancakes or griddle cakes, are made from self-raising flour, eggs, sugar and milk with Irish pancakes being made with soda-flour and buttermilk.
THEY WERE GREAT…EXPRESS PANCAKES!!
I have pages of a zillion books of pages bookmarked, enough to bind into more books, I have pages on the net bookmarked, I have blogevents to participate in bookmarked….& I have this one life to do it all & more in!! A day has 24 hours & the blessed month only about 30 days. Phew… to top it all off, the firm intent to make sure I leave a footprint at The Singing Chefs event at WBB for sure. I promised & then got to know of the theme…‘Express Breakfasts’ ie ‘in UNDER 15 MINUTES’!! O boy… it took me a good ten to calm the palpitations down & begin thinking in an organised manner; the next few hours were lost in futile searches online. My old book came to my rescue; ‘Baking Course’ is a quaint little book, just about 60 odd pages, on pastry, cakes and bread. Talks you through the processes & techniques of making each of these, & puts down a handful of recipes on each of the three.
Dropping scones for the chef who sings…
This recipe is especially for Raaga, the Singing Chef, who is hosting the 2nd anniversary of Weekend Breakfast Blogging this month. WBB is an event that started almost 2 years ago. 
The brainchild of Nandita of Saffron Trail, this event to popularize breakfast has been hopping all over the blogosphere. Thank you sweet Singing Chef; had it not been for you, I would have never attempted these wonderful pancakes!! GRACIAS!!
Kids @ Work – The boy…
…& the girl!!
The recipe as adapted from ‘Baking Course’, pg 45
Ingredients:
Flour – 2 cups
Baking powder – 2 tsps
Pinch of salt
Golden (light corn) syrup – 2 tbsps
Eggs – 2
Vegetable Oil – 2 tbsp
Vanilla Extract – 1 tsp (I had to add this; but can be omitted if you are not ‘eggphobic’)
Milk as required
Method:
- Sift the flour + baking powder + salt ( or use 2 cups self-raising flour).
- Lightly grease the griddle with a little oil. ( I used a non-stick griddle).
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Put all the ingredients except milk in a bowl & whisk with as much milk as required to make a thick batter, of a consistency like thick cream.
- Drop spoonfuls of the batter on to a heated griddle & cook for 3 minutes until bubbling.
- Turn over & cook the other side till golden (2-3 minutes more).
- Remove the cooked scones & cover with a clean cloth. Use the remainder of the batter in the same way.
- Makes about 24 drop scones / pancakes.
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Serve with unsweetened whipped cream, chopped mango (of seasonal fruit), peach preserves, jam, butter, fresh mint etc.
SINGING FOR MY BREAKFAST!!!
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About me: I am a freelance food writer, recipe developer and photographer. Food is my passion - baking, cooking, developing recipes, making recipes healthier, using fresh seasonal produce and local products, keeping a check on my carbon footprint and being a responsible foodie! I enjoy food styling, food photography, recipe development and product reviews. I express this through my food photographs which I style and the recipes I blog. My strength lies in 'Doing Food From Scratch'; it must taste as good as it looks, and be healthy too. Baking in India, often my biggest challenge is the non-availability of baking ingredients, and this has now become a platform to get creative on. I enjoy cooking immensely as well.
24 Comments
Nina's Kitchen (Nina Timm)
A breakfast like this would be an absolute hit with my family.
Happy cook
You can serve for me with mangoes please.
How can you tease one like this? Panckaes and then on top otot one sees those delicious ripe pieced of mangoes …. Yummm
Hi hi i too refuse to make breakfast like this.
Mishmash !
gorgeous mangoes! lip smacking !! wish i could get some of it !!!
azcookbook
What a great breakfast! I wish I was invited:) Your pancakes are mouthwatering, well, just like anything you make.
Ann
Can you come and make breakfast for us this weekend? 🙂
Ann at Redacted Recipes
Nags
nice write up 🙂 i have been meaning to try pancakes too but never got around to it yet 🙂
Manggy
Oh, drop scones!!! I love the Brits 🙂 Next thing you know you’ll start telling me crumpets are real! Hahaha.
They look delicious and cooked one of the ways I like! Try them with condensed milk too, it’s addictive (though you know how much I love mangoes 🙂
Divya
Deeba…that breakfast platter looks yummy..am drooling…;-)Would love to have a bite from that plate…!!Kudos for once again coming up with something yummylicious as this!!!
ovenhaven
Oh, nothing beats a breakfast served with mangoes! You’ve got me drooling over your drop scones, Deeba!
Arundathi
deeba – that looks droolicious! and under 15 mts too! we make pancakes atleast once a week – gonna try your varation! nice!
Rachel
Wow now I would really like someone to make me that scrumptious breakfast..with mangoes please….
diva
pancakes, pikeletes, drop scones, etc. i love em all!
great pics. and also thanks for the MEME tag. i’ll get to work on it asap 🙂
xx
Divya
Deeba,thats good news..u know where to go first in chennai then huh..?? nuts’n’spices have got many outlets,its better you chk out the one in Spencer Plaza-thats the one i went to-they have branches in velachery,adyar and anna nagar-that i know of-do chk out their website for more details – nutsnspices.in..happy shopping-i am sure they will make good business on 23rd;-)
Pearlsofeast
Wow, nice breakfast,my son has recently got hooked to pancakes, so nice to try ur version.
Nice presentation.
Dhanggit
im jealous, i wish i could find gorgeous mangoes like that!! when we eat pancake at home its either with mangoes or bananas..but seeing this pictures i think i will only eat pancakes with mangoes forever!!
Ivy
I wish I had someone to make pancakes for me in the morning, I love them.
meeso
Wow, you can make something as simple as a pancake look so good in your pictures!
meeso
Wow, you can make something as simple as a pancake look so good in your pictures!
Ruth Elkin
What creative and adventurous kids! I don’t think I would have been as brave when I was little with my pancakes….. usually just butter for me, but ti’s different now.
These look real tasty. great work!
Bharti Khemani
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. You are so talented!
SMN
Hey Deeba i wud love to have this for my breakfast..
Raaga
Thanks a ton Deeba… I’m as eggphobic as you and my pancakes also have vanilla.
http://chefatwork.blogspot.com/2007/12/i-love-pancakes.html
These look heavenly.
Bellini Valli
These would have me singing the praises of breakfast for sure!!!!
Sunshinemom
Good recipe, but the photographs simply took my breath away!