SUGAR AND LEMON?! Where's the Canadian Maple Syrup?

I had no idea you guys had a Pancake Day learn something new everyday

When I was a kid in Chicago we always celebrated shrove Tuesday with a pancake supper at church. Of course I grew up in an Episcopal / Anglican Church. The whole point of Fat Tuesday traditionally has been to use up all the fat in the house. Traditionally one does not use fat for cooking during Lent.

Happy Shrove Tuesday! May Lent be a time of reflection and blessing for you, and all you followers who observe the season. And a wish of Peace for everyone!

I’ve never lived anywhere in the US where anyone celebrated pancake day (except for some promotional specials from IHOP, Huddle House or Waffle House) and I’m an Air Force brat so I’ve lived all over the country Tonight my fiancé and I went the lazy route and just picked up dinner from a Mexican restaurant and brought it home

My reaction: “What the hell is pancake day?” And my mother is from the UK.

I just got home from our Pancake dinner at our church to celebrate Fat Tuesday and lent, which starts tomorrow. I made pancakes for around 35 people. It's a tradition, we just don't have a "pancake day" I guess. But pancake dinners on Fat Tuesday are common, among Protestants and Catholics anyway.

Usually lemon juice and powdered sugar is for Dutch Babies aka German Pancakes - basically one huge fluffy pancake cooked in a cast iron pan in the oven.

Happy Mardi Gras from New Orleans!!

Happy Fat Tuesday! Mardi Gras! In the Midwest, we eat a Paczki which is a Polish donut filled with a fruit or cream filling.

Pancakes with Vermont Maple Syrup and butter!

Millie, the flour jar, as you call it, is commonly called a canister. Flour canister, sugar canister, coffee canister etc. Usually sold in sets of 4 of different sizes. As you said, very handy for someone who bakes often.

Yes, pretty much every American kitchen has a set of canisters. Plastic canisters are usually made to fit inside one another when empty, but some people use canisters made of other materials (e.g., ceramic), in which case they may not be stackable. Either way, the largest canister is always the flour canister, and the next largest is almost always sugar. The others vary but can include things like brown sugar, cornmeal, powdered sugar, etc. We keep cornstarch in our smallest one. A typical canister set has four canisters, but I've seen sets of three, five, or six.

In the States is pancake day every day of the year. Especially on Sundays and not just for breakfast but for dinner too.

My brother turned me on to pancakes with mushroom brown gravy.. AMAZING!

english pancakes look like a failed culinary experiment of brits trying to learn French cuisine

I had blackberry pancakes with syrup and sausage patties today.

Fat Tuesday was a way for people to use all of the fat in the house on a big meal before Lent as he said.

There's no need, everyday is a day for pancakes. We eat pancakes all the time and all hours of the day and night. They're flapjacks on our side of the pond and they're big and fluffy - at least twice as big as elsewhere.

Happy Paczki Day from Milwaukee.

Gotta have our nice thick pancakes here in the US with pure maple syrup or hickory syrup. Delicious.

Pazckis for me. If you’re Polish or from Chicago, you know.

I had pancakes for dinner last night. Anytime is a good time for breakfast.

On fat Tuesday my family always did Paczkis but now that I moved to Minnesota I haven't been able to find a place that sells them so I just get donuts. I really need to learn how to make Paczkis.

English style pancakes do not look like cakes made in a pan.

When my dad was alive he would always make crepes on Sunday, but we would generally have on the table and use in various combinations: peanut butter, jelly, honey, butter, occasionally fresh fruit and/or powdered sugar. I’ve never tried with lemon juice, but look forward to trying it.

"I've never seen a flour jar, is that an American thing? "Your mum has a flour jar" 🤣

We don't celebrate Shrove Tuesday on a national level because we don't have a state religion. Pancakes are made during Mardi Gras and it's observed by Catholics, Episcopalians, Lutherans, Presbyterians and Methodists, but many denominations don't observe Lent at all.

There is an official pancake day here in the USA but not generally celebrated except by pancake houses such as IHOP, where on pancake day you can get a free shortstack of pancakes

That's how I always crack my eggs, and I never get shell in it. The inside skin holds them together pretty well

Inspired in part by Laurence, I looked up a recipe and made my first UK style ones today (Sainsbury's Magazine recipe) and I had one with the lemon and sugar (very nice, light, subtle flavor), and another with fresh strawberries and some slightly melted chocolate chips (can also recommend). Thinking about it, if I make them again I might try adding the fresh sliced strawberries to the lemon and sugar, that sounds delightful.

Yeah typically crepe's in the USA are like your pancakes. We don't have them to often but when we do I put strawberries whip cream and powdered sugar.

I have never in my almost seventy years of live heard of putting lemon on pancakes. We always put butter and syrup on pancakes. Especially maple syrup. And that reminds me, you guys should find a good Maple Sugar Festival video and record your reaction. The whole nine yards should really greatly surprise you.

I made Hamburger Helper, chopped Beef with Egg Noodles, one large Poblano pepper, several large Shallots, a bit of chopped cabbage and Broccoli, with a thick creamy base.

Dinner on this Shrove Tuesday was crab imperial stuffed lobster, mashed potatoes, broccoli, and dessert, which was blueberry stuffed pancake cake. The cake was full of plump blueberries and tasted just like a pancake.

"Your mum has a flour jar." "I've never seen that before." Classic

In many parts of the Midwest, we have paczki (said "Poonch-key; singular is Poon-chack). They're a decadently delightful jelly donut!

Fat Tuesday isn't much about pancakes, more about King cake ( or maybe beignet style donuts, both New Orleans things), and indulgence in general. Though after watching Lawrence yesterday, I did have American pancakes for dinner along with an omelet, since I haven't had pancakes for 3 or 4 months.

Prior to Laurence's older videos on the subject I had never heard of Shrove Tuesday/Pancake day. Never did lent, either. But after seeing Laurence do his English pancakes in yesterday's video, I made Bisquick buttermilk pancakes 🥞 for breakfast this morning

Pancakes w/sides are our (American) equivalent of your full English Breakfast. A fairly common thing available at restaurants and easy to make & customize at home. Common enough on weekdays, even, and definitely on weekends. You can even get (or make) the dry mix in bulk and just add water/egg/whatever when you're ready to cook & eat. A full meal in half the time if you have a bin of pre-mixed dry ingredients on hand, and easy to customize with any nut/fruit or topping you might like ... or nothing at all! Add fruit, butter/peanut butter, syrup, jam, applesauce on the top or the side and juice and bacon/egg/tofu/sausage on the side and you have a solid meal with not too much work. We tend to make them much heartier than crepe-style though, they are more like an actual cake in texture, just made in a skillet rather than baked in the oven.

To answer your question the reason why Americans don't celebrate Pancake Day is because we don't know it's Pancake Day we've never heard of that holiday

We in America have pancakes and syrup. Your English pancakes are our Crepes which we fill with everything that my them delicious

Butter & Maple Syrup on `em, only! ;- ]

I completely agree with Lawrence about milk always smelling off

Our flour comes in 5-pound or 10-pound paper packages (as seen in video). Once it is opened, we dump it into a container with a lid. [Sugar is packaged the same way, so it also goes into a container.] Most people in U.S. don’t weigh their ingredients, we use measuring cups or spoons. Never heard of lemon on pancakes-we mostly use butter, maple syrup, fruit flavored syrup, powdered confectioner's sugar, or jelly/jams. Being America, anything goes & people add whatever they like.

We don't have a pancake day because in many families everyday is Pancake Day, BUT We do have an official Talk-Like-A-Pirate Day, ARRGGG Mateys.

Do you have Maple Syrup in Jersey? Almost all Maples syrup is made in northeast United States and Quebec.

Flour here comes in a sealed paper bag. If you store it like that once it's open, you'll get flour bugs.

Oh my, making pancakes has never looked so difficult😂

In Michigan for Shrove Tuesday paczki is the food of choice. (PR. Punchkey)

i have a flour container thats glass and seals tightly when closed. so nice. keeps out the moisture.

It's Mardi gras or fat Tuesday in English, plus if you want 🥞 everyday here you can

No pancakes for us tonight, I decided to make biscuits and gravy instead.

National Pancake Day is not until Feb 28 here in the States. this is according to IHop.

Hey man, I eat pancakes all the time!!!! International house of pancakes has great flapjacks. Many flavors of syrup!!!! Wooooooooooo

We celebrate Shrove Tuesdays here in New Orleans. But not with pancake day, but Mardi gras day. Happy Mardi gras y'all!!!

You guys should do a pancake meal w/sides for a cooking episode, would love to see it!

we usually have canisters for flour,sugar,coffee and tea

My daughters made pancakes for breakfast and we had some bacon that needed cooking so we ended up having eggs bacon and pancakes for dinner too! Lol

We call it Shrove Tuesday. Going to be having pancakes for dinner tonight. Not a huge pancake fan myself, but I am looking forward to it.

I didn't have pancakes today (ended up having chicken wings instead) but when I do have pancakes, I go for some butter and Canadian maple syrup on mine with a side of sausage and bacon. Though I probably could go for the British style pancakes with some sugar lemon. That does look very appealing to me.

Flour comes in a bag. I've never seen this tin/jar that James speaks of

Pancake day? Pancake & gravy?! Lemon & sugar?!

I like fluffy pancakes with crispy edges with butter and syrup on them

Lolol I grew up in central Washington State, USA on a 300+ acre farm. We had pancakes almost every day! I had no idea there was such a thing as Pancake day! Now I know why I've been wanting them for days! Still love them but they are just a treat. I'll try the sugar and lemon, sounds great!

Who needs pancakes when you can have paczkis 🤤

In America we do not put all the extras in the pancakes. We have nice thick pancakes quite often. We have a nice home owned pancake house here in Sun Prairie Wisconsin, next time you pass by you may want to stop in.

Fast act is heavy n quite indulgent. In other words...delicious!!!

There is a small town in Iowa, where I grew up named Centerville, Iowa celebrates Pancake Day every year. Since 1949, the city has conducted an annual Pancake Day festival. For the first five years, the celebration was held the first Thursday in October until 1954 when it was moved to the last Thursday in September. In 1965 the celebration was moved to the last Saturday in September. Pancake Day is a time for local businesses and organizations to cook up pancakes which they provide for free to their customers to show thanks for their continued patronage. The event that is held in the Courthouse Square Historic District features a morning kiddie parade, a larger afternoon parade with a unique double-loop parade route, a beauty queen contest and free entertainment. On Pancake Day 2021, the Guinness World Record was set when 14,000 pancakes served in four hours

Guys we have Pancake Day. It has different names Shrove Tuesday . Its a lot of fun. our church holds a Pancake supper yesterday about 100 folks hanging out. We can't let you Brits have all the fun things.

Being from PA we always celebrated faschnact day. So now I know pancake day is basically the same thing.

I have big glass jars (hold about 15lbs) that hold my flour, white sugar, brown sugar, powdered sugar, cornmeal, and oats in my kitchen…

My sister would make a hot berry sauce similar to jam to put on crepes, or fresh berries, powder sugar, chocolate suace, etc... I've never seen lemon juice on there though.

Coincidentally, I had pancakes for breakfast earlier today.

Cracker barrel also has spectacular flapjacks !!!!

Raised Roman Catholic in NM and we never had anything special prior to Lent oddly enough

Just got home from church having Shrove Tuesday pancakes. American ones, but yes, we have pancakes on Shrove Tuesday!

Pancakes and gravy sound like chicken and waffles. Similar taste profiles.

Sugar and lemon go on Dutch Babies! Yum.

Although technically on fastnacht day, we usually just get regular doughnuts. They are easier to come by lol. Even though during the holiday you can find plenty of stores selling authentic fastnachts.

Pancakes are great and didn't know they had a day to celebrate. Breaking my party hat and fork now

When I was growing up, pancakes were only guaranteed on Christmas. When money was short, pancakes were served for supper. We kids didn't care. We were thrilled.

We always called it Pancake Tuesday.

We also I have your ( UK) pancakes in my family from generations passed down (the crepes). Not just U.S. pancakes although I like those regularly too. But my Nana (she passed away for some time now), use to make U.K pancakes when I was a child, pretty regularly but with Jams or Jellies like gooseberry jam (my soo favorite) and vanilla flavor type of heavy cream and she would make the ones you are talking about on pancake day she say these ones were the special ones haha! They all were like the ones you have there on video but with fresh squeezed lemon though and powder sugar. She mentioned that her Nana would make them for her when she was a child too. I love your channel and Lawrence too! You should bring back your cooking episodes of cooking and throw in a few of the U.K. foods too. Stay Happy! :)

Pancakes….😋

The last time I had crepes was on a cruise. They had a crepes station. It had a lot of toppings.

I think you already know, but if not - his wife has a cooking/domestic channel called Old Fashioned AF. This video is part cross-over, part poking fun at himself, and part promoting her -- all done in the theme of her 'thing' being cooking and home-making and that kind of thing and him playing the role of a smart guy who bumbles through life.

I’ve almost always eaten pancakes on Shrove Tuesday. At least it is traditional in Episcopal (Anglican) churches (my tradition). Granted, we typically eat American style pancakes. If I want English style pancakes (which frankly I prefer-I love them with lemon and sugar), I make them at home.

A bit of shell never hurt anyone, good source of minerals ; )

I grew up with flour, sugar, and coffee jars

I have never heard of pancake day till now

James does the weirdest shit and questions normal things like flour jars…. Hes smug about it too lmfoaoo

My mom would make crepes every Friday during Lent. Fried them in oil. They would puff up and curl on the edges. Then we put butter and maple syrup on them. Yummy. Pancakes are always thick fluffy cakes cooked in a pan. Usually served with butter and syrup.

If you're at Marti graw and a woman it's half expected to show your books at some point fun fact lol

James most Americans have sweet pancakes, gravy is for biscuits or if you're Canadian or Northern US french fries or at least if you top that gravy with cheese curds aka poutine... I do make and enjoy Yorkshire pudding with gravy... That said I would probably find your gravy topped pancakes enjoyable ss back when I was a teenager ( I'm now 53 ) I invented turkey pancakes with Thanksgiving leftovers which you might find enjoyable although it requires a little bit more effort and requires a thicker pancake batter rather than crepe batter... Basically you chop up leftover turkey, leftover vegetables ( think cooked carrots, green beans etc.)and raw onions or green onions and once you flip the pancake while the batter is still a bit runny you sprinkle chopped turkey, vegetables, cheese if you want and small dots of stuffing/dressing then let it cook until almost solid and flip again cooking briefly to get it nice and brown before flipping once more onto a plate at which point you pour on the gravy and possibly a dot of cranberry sauce... Like bubble and squeak you can add to liking... While I haven't done it you could likely do the same with roast beef, roast pork etc.

It’s February 21st here known as Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Tuesday and I’m celebrating. Americans do celebrate Pancake Tuesday but they call it Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras. Some of us even remember remember the fifth of November! A nice little bon fire to celebrate Guy Fawkes day.

I have a couple of questions....1/why have a pancake day??? We just have pancakes when ever we want them....and our pancakes are fluffier. ....2/ why do you put lemon juice on pancakes....we put maple syrup or some other syrup along with pads of butter. Why don't the British eat pancakes other than one time a year... they don't sell flour during the rest of the year?????

Nice video! love your guys content! i watch everything you post. keep up the amazing work Beesleys :D

Comparing an English pancake to Yorkshire pudding, does nothing for most of us. I’ve never had it Yorkshire pudding that is.

My pantry has always had different canisters for all my dry ingredients. Well I guess I shouldn’t say always because the one time I didn’t, I ended up having to throw everything away in the pantry because we had a weevil invasion. So now I won’t use any containers unless they have a secure lid. I literally had to throw everything in the pantry out because they even somehow got into the sealed boxes of stuff. I had just moved into that house and had gone grocery shopping and stocked it with was traumatic since I had only recently gone shopping and stocked it with EVERYTHING! I guess I probably had to throw away at least $250 of food 🤢