Pancakes

[poliphilo]

I remember this TV play.

Charles Gray was a gourmet who had eaten everything including human leg. The only thing he had never eaten was a ghost.

So he set a ghost trap, caught his ghost and flambed it in brandy.

The damp little gobs of fried ectoplasm we saw him wolfing down looked a lot like the pancakes I made yesterday.

I blame the soy milk. The pancakes just wouldn't set. I soused them in lemon juice and sugar and ate them out of a sense of duty, but I wasn't happy.

Pancakes are a Shrove Tuesday tradition. Shrove Tuesday? That's Mardi Gras to you guys.

The rest of the world has carnival and public nudity and drag queens in mile high feathers and we Brits think, hmm, lets really push the boat out and eat some pancakes.

And Gray, what happened to him? I don't remember exactly. How do you end a story like that- except lamely? Perhaps he was haunted by the ghost of the ghost, or turned into a ghost or was eaten by a ghost. Who cares?

But I'll bet he had the most terrible indigestion.

Comments

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

Kate has an amazingly unhurtable recipe that calls for only one-quarter of a cup of milk, which isn't much.

This recipe, which she used last night to make our own Shrove Tuesday pancakes, uses corn meal and regular flour.

If you would like it, I'll send it along. It's simple and foolproof.

We're pretty much over pancakes here, and you may well be, too.

As for eating ghosts: that's fascinating.

You know, I know next to nothing about ectoplasm. Is it a real thing? Have people actually gotten some and tested it? Looked at it in a microscope? Is it protein or what?

If there is such a thing, it might be important!

[solar-diablo.livejournal.com]

Pervy pancake eaters. I'll stick to wholesome public nudity, thank you very much.

[barbarakitten-t.livejournal.com]

just goes to show...soy milk is bad for pancakes...

i've never eaten a ghost...or even a ghost of a pancake.

ghost is a funny looking word...where did the "h" come from?

[morrison-maiden.livejournal.com]

Lol, sorry your pancakes weren't the greatest. I make some damn good ones from scratch, but I use regular low-fat milk :\