Artist’s palate

Pancakes

Sean Scully’s pancakes

Sean Scully has spent the last six decades fusing spirituality with abstraction, creating grids, stripes and bold stacks of colour. When the Irish-born artist proposed pancakes for our recipe series, we imagined a stack, but as he explains, ‘I could make a stack, like one of my sculptures or paintings. But the family is eagerly waiting, so they take them as they come, with maple syrup for the kids and jam for the adults.’ He has his pancake production down to a fine art, creating them a few times a week for his wife Liliane and 11-year-old son. For Scully, giving a pancake enough air time before serving is crucial because it excites the recipient. ‘If you can flip it over a couple of times in the air, you’re a master.’ seanscullystudio.com. For Scully’s recipe, and to watch his pancake flipping in action, see Wallpaper.com ∫

‘Loochtootoo’ kitchen ladle, £35, by Philippe Starck, for Alessi. ‘Bernadotte’ salt shaker, €60 with pepper shaker, by Georg Jensen For stockists, see page 112