RECIPE | SAINT PATTY’S DAY PANCAKES

Green pancakes on Saint Patrick’s Parade day has been a tradition I do my best to continue every year. This year, we took it to a whole new level by adding Guinness to the mix and I tried my hand at making shapes more complicated than blobs. Though you couldn’t actually taste the beer in the end result, the flavour was very good. I would have to say they were a success

Read on for the recipe and some photos of the parade.

INGREDIENTS:

3 cups of plain flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons sugar
3 eggs, separated
1 cup of Guinness at room temperature
1 1/2 cups milk
1/3 cup melted butter
optional – green food colouring

Sift the flour with the baking powder, salt and sugar. Separate eggs, leaving whites in a bowl aside. Beat the eggs yolks in a large bowl. Stir in the beer, melted butter and milk. Stir the flour fixture into the wet mixture. Beat the egg whites then stir into your batter. Heat a greased pan on medium heat.

Pour desired amount of batter onto the pan, turning when the outside edges of the pancakes start to bubble. *To make special shaped pancakes, pour the batter into a plastic kitchen bag and pierce a whole in one corner in order to make an outline of the shape and then fill it in with batter.

And some shots of Montrealers enjoying the parade and the excuse to openly drink on the street.