Recipes

Drop scone pancakes with dry-cured bacon and apple syrup

This recipe is a savoury twist on an Irish classic.

Maura O’Connell Foley reinvents an Irish classic with this pancake recipe. Picture: Maria Bell

Ingredients, makes 12-14 pancakes

90g plain white flour

Pinch sea salt

2 rounded tsp baking powder sieved

1 tsp demerara sugar

2 eggs

100ml milk

40g butter, melted and cooled

Butter for cooking (preferably use clarified butter)

6 rashers dry-cured bacon

6 rashers unsmoked bacon

A little jug of homemade apple syrup or maple syrup, to serve

Oregano flower, sweet cicely or any seasonal herb, optional garnish

For the apple syrup

3 tbsp water

200g ...