As one of the best food-related holidays rolls around, people will be excited to show off their pancake-flipping skills this Shrove Tuesday.
While kids will be trying out the sweet-and-savoury treat for the first time, and parents will be impressing with their chef skills, there is bound to be mess and leftover batter.
However, there are ways to keep batter and pancakes fresh if your eyes are too big for your belly, and hacks to clean up spills.
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Keeping them fresh - how to use up leftover batter and keep pancakes good for another day
Leftover tips
Whether you like your pancakes sweet or savoury, its a certainty that you will have a stack of the bad boys left over from your cooking escapades.
But fear not, as you can keep leftover pancakes in the fridge for up to two days and can reheat them using the microwave or toaster.
And one way they can be reused is as wraps for lunch - just heat them up and add in a wrap filling, like ham, cheese, bacon or just a sauce.
And if you have leftover batter, there is a similar food that can be utilised at dinner time that has a similar mix. Yorkshire pudding batter and pancake mix aren't that far apart, so you can reproduce your pancakes into something completely different.
For this recipe, it’s actually better to let the mix rest in a bowl for a couple of days, however make sure your batter reaches room temp before putting in a well-oiled bun tin in the oven at 230 degrees Celsius for around 20 minutes.
Clean-up hacks
Cleaning expert from MyJobQuote.co.uk, Sarah Dempsey, has shared three ways to clean up stains from cooking all the crepes you want this Shrove Tuesday.
Before you begin to panic at the pancake splatters on your kitchen walls, quickly grab some white vinegar from your cupboard and mix one-part white vinegar with two parts water.
If you don’t have white vinegar you can buy it for £1 or use washing up liquid instead.
Dampen a sponge with the water and white vinegar solution and carefully wipe the grease marks left behind from the pancakes. Follow this with warm water and then blot the area with a paper towel until dry.
If you don’t have any white vinegar in your cupboards, don’t worry as washing up liquid is an effective alternative. Add a small amount of washing up liquid, bought for as little as 49p, to one cup of warm water then take a dry sponge and lightly dampen it in the soapy water.
Gently wipe the stains with the sponge, if you rub too hard this could further damage the paintwork making matters worse. Finally, blot the wall with a dry paper towel until it dries.
If the stains are more extreme, try bicarbonate of soda instead. Bicarbonate of soda is a household ingredient that can be bought for as little as 59p at Tesco, and when mixed with water it can work magic on grease stains on walls.
Mix three parts bicarbonate of soda and one part water in a bowl to create a paste. Apply the paste onto the stains and let it dry whilst you enjoy your pancakes.
Once it is dry wash it with clean water and pat dry with a clean microfibre cloth.
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