Drop Scones with Glazes Peaches!
Serves 6

Ingredients

Pancakes:

• 100g fast cook oatflakes
• 500ml buttermilk
• 75g mixed dried fruit. finely chopped (e.g. chopped apricots, raisins, sultanas)
• 75g plain flour, sieved
• 2 tsp caster sugar
• 1 tsp bread soda
• 1 egg, lightly beaten
• 2 tsp butter, melted

Glazed Peaches:

• 1 tbsp butter
• 1 tbsp brown sugar
• 6 medium peaches

Combine the oatflakes and buttermilk in a bowl and let stand for 10 minutes.

Stir in the dried fruit, flour, sugar, bread soda, egg and melted butter. Mix thoroughly and let stand for up to 1 hour.

After standing, add a little milk if the mixture is very thick.

Heat a non-stick frying pan and grease lightly with butter. Pour in about 1 tablespoon of the batter, followed by another one separately at the other side of the pan. Cook over a moderate to high heat until bubbly on top and lightly browned underneath.

Turn the drop scones to brown on other side. Repeat with remaining batter.

Set aside to keep warm.

To make the glazed fruit, melt the butter and sugar together over medium heat in frying pan. Stir until the sugar is dissolved. Add the sliced fruit and cook over a medium heat for 2 to 3 minutes until softened. Serve warm over the pancakes. Drizzle some maple syrup or honey for extra sweetness, if required.

A delicious easy to flip alternative to pancakes!!

Did you know...

Drop Scones are also known as Scotch Pancakes.

What’s Great about Pancakes…
They taste yummy, are cheap to make and can be served sweet or savoury for breakfast, lunch or dinner!!!

The proper name for Pancake Tuesday is Shrove Tuesday. Traditionally the reason pancakes were associated with this day is because it was the day to use up the fresh ingredients in the larder which could not be eaten during Lent, a time of abstinence.

Did you know that during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Shrove Tuesday was one of the most popular days on which to get married. This was because, according to tradition, marriages could not take place during Lent.

Other international variations of the pancake include Crepes (French), Crespelle (Italian) and Blinis (Russia).