Little A’s best pancake recipe
Pancakes is probably my best recipe and I can more or less make them on my own.

Ingredients
3 eggs
3/4 pint of milk
1 cup of plain flour
1 pinch of salt
2 teaspoons Vanilla Sugar
50 g melted butter

Method
Firstly -wash your hands and put on a apron. I also need a small chair to stand on the kitchen.
1. You’ll need someone grown up to help you melting the butter and frying the pancakes.
2. Mix the eggs, poor in the milk and stir.
3. Add flour, salt and vanilla sugar, stir well.
4. Add melted butter.
5. Fry in butter, until golden on each side.

Enjoy warm with sugar, home made strawberry jam or why not my favourite, vanilla ice cream and blueberry jam!

© Little Scandinavian. Little A’s pancakes with lots of eggs and vanilla sugar.

Camilla Plum thinks fussiness at the dinner table often is the result of lack of challenges food wise. Many families eat a very narrow range of dishes like pasta with tomato sauce, fish fingers and chicken. To help our children having a healthy diet we need to ensure that we as adults have a balanced and healthy diet too.
But fussy eating can also be the result of any change in life and the child’s urge to be independent and make decisions. Food is a powerful weapon!
Fussy eating can put a strain on any parent and when you’ve had enough you need to deal with it. Camilla Plum believes that reluctant eaters often is not actually disliking the food, more the fact that they want to protest and have their own say. Plum thinks dispute and arguments should be avoided so it’s not turning the dining table into a battle field. So how do you do it? You need to stay calm and consequent. It’s a big step for many parents to take the first step in dealing with your child’s fussy eating.

Be brave and take the first step to stop fussy eating by…
- making honest and delicious food. If you prepare food with love and care and serve it at a nice set table it’s more likely you all will enjoy the family meal more. Camilla Plum are of the opinion that you can’t blame children for being fuzzy eaters if all you serve is ready made, tasteless, boring food.
- removing the reason for argument. When they don’t eat or have started playing with their food, simply remove the plate and provide the dog with the delicious home made food instead. It sounds simple, but it isn’t it. It’ll get noisy and unpleasant. Still, pretend as nothing, says Camilla Plum, and remember to be consequent. And don’t be anxious if the child doesn’t eat for days, unless you GP thinks differently. Plum says long term bad eating habits are probably way more harmful.
- not serving separate food especially for your child. The children should eat with the rest of the family as it’s nothing wrong with the food being served.
- let the children eat in peace, do not force them to eat or finish, just remove the plate when the child has stopped eating. If they don’t eat, then they don’t get any food.
The rule is simply -food or no food is less important than peace instead of battle at the dinner table.

In addition to the above advice Camilla Plum thinks cooking with children is an excellent way of involving the children.
Let the children discover where food comes from by picking fruit and vegetables and let them enjoy the satisfaction of eating what you together have prepared in the kitchen.

There has not always been peace and happiness around Camilla Plum’s table either. One time, she recalls, the children didn’t want to eat, and had to go to bed without food. When they started the same fuzziness the day after she reminded them about the previous day event, and they all ate their dinner. It happened once more and the story repeated itself…
We think Camilla has a no fuss solution that’s worth trying. Let us know what’s worked for your family!
Camilla’s farm Fuglebjerrgaard’s website (Danish only) : www.fuglebjerggaard.dk

Ingredients:
225g organic plain white flour
½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
60g slightly salted butter
25g caster sugar
150ml whole milk
1 free range egg, beaten

Method:
1. Heat the oven to 220C. Lightly grease a baking sheet if you don’t have reusable teflon baking sheets.
2. Mix together the flour, salt, baking powder and rub in the butter that are cut into small squares.
3. Stir in the sugar and then the milk to get a soft dough. Little B chose to use her hands… Very messy and a lot of fun!
4. Turn on to a floured work surface and knead very lightly. Pat out to a round. Use a knife lightly cutting it in 4 and place on a baking sheet.
5. Brush the tops of the scones with the beaten egg. Bake for 12-15 minutes until well risen and golden.
6. Cool on a wire rack and serve with butter and homemade jam.


Wish you all a happy weekend!

In 2003 Katherina run her own business giving children’s cookery classes at her home planted the seed that was to become Ella’s Kitchen Company. Katherina found that half the fun of these cooking lessons was the children queuing up to use the flour, sugar and spices from her Norwegian Cabinet. At the end of the lesson they would beg her to convince their parents to have these cabinets in their own homes.

That was the start of Ella’s Kitchen Company, producing kitchen cabinets and accessories locally in Shropshire UK by using responsibly sourced European wood. The kitchen accessories are created in an artisan method using recycled materials.

We love Ella’s Kids baking cabinets. For the budding cook, these Kids Baking Cabinets in available in pink or blue, personalised with the child’s name will really make the children feel included in the cooking and baking. The cabinets sit on the work surface easily to hand allowing the children to bake and feel independent in the kitchen. The 3 metal pouring containers hold the main ingredients for baking, flour, sugar and icing sugar or they can choose what the want to put into them. Each of the scoops fits an entire bag of the ingredients and children can see through the transparent front panel exactly how much is left.

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What can the children help out with?
- gather all ingredients
- open packages
- measure, weigh, count spoons or cups.
- pour, mix and stir liquids and ingredients
- wash, peel and tear fruit and vegetables
- set the table
- tidy up in the kitchen
You may be surprised at how simple things can be both interesting and enjoyable for the kids. I remember my grandfather always said that the ones that did the washing up had the cleanest hands -and I loved doing it and was really proud of my clean hands.

500 g flour
1 bar vanilla
385 g butter
250 g sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon coated ammonium bicarbonate
100 g carefully chopped almonds.

Method
Sieve flour, vanilla corn and ammonium bicarbonate together. Cold butter is chopped in. Egg and sugar is mixed in. Almonds is copped carefully and added. Take the dough through the mincer and formed into “wreath-shaped cakes”. The dough is easier to work with if it had been let cold for a few hours. They are baked on a baking sheet with baking paper at 185 degrees 8-10 minutes.
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