Dr. Simple’s favourite Pancake recipes
Buttermilk pancakes
You will need...
30g butter, 1 large egg
150g plain flour, 250ml buttermilk
1 teaspoon castor sugar
1/2 teaspoon bread soda
I teaspoon of baking powder
When cooking you will see
bubbles forming, when they
start to pop, it’s time to
turn the pancake over!
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These are delicious served warm,
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smeared with a bit of butter!
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21/2 cups of flour equals ___ g flour
0.75 cups of flour equals ___ g flour
1/2 teaspoon of milk equals ___ mls milk
0.2 teaspoon of milk equals ___ mls milk
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According
to Professor
Frank Smith of
University College London,
the mathematical formula
for the perfect pancake
flip is...
L = 4 H /P- D / 2
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Dr. Simple is having trouble testing a new pancake recipe. He needs to
convert cups to grams and teaspoons to mls.
He knows that...
1 cup of flour equals 128g and 1 teaspoon equals 5 mls.
Can you help him with his calculations by completing the table below?
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L = hand distance from inner edge of the pancake / H = height of flip / D = diameter of pancake