High Priestess of Pancakes Shares Her Secrets
26.01.10
How are your pancaking skills? Judging by the myriad pancake houses (and restaurants that serve pancakes) in America, pancakes are right up there in popularity with ice cream and Chevy trucks. Well, maybe more popular than Chevy trucks.
But not everyone likes pancakes, and not everyone can make them. I confess, I am a former pancake failure.
Pancakes are deceptively easy to make. You take some ingredients (flour, baking powder, sugar, salt, eggs, milk, butter) or a pancake mix and some water, mix them up, divide the batter into quarter-cup increments that you then pour onto a hot griddle. That’s a recipe for disaster.
I started making pancakes when I was a Brownie and, as a child, always made them “from scratch,” a description that somehow suggests something that should make you queasy. As I recall, they were pretty good, but then again I was the kind of kid who would eat candy that had fallen to the ground. By the time I was 18 I had switched to Aunt Jemima pancake mix.
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Start a weekend morning with a breakfast special
29.01.10
Paying attention to breakfast this week, here is a recipe for pancakes that might make a weekend morning a little more special.
Being inside more in the cold of winter, perhaps you have some time to linger around the breakfast table. Serving these pancakes would make "lingering" even more enjoyable. Add some hot cocoa and you have your family off to a nice start.
May I also add that "breakfast for supper" is good a couple of times a month — at least it always was in my house. My family's favorite "breakfast for supper" was sausage and eggs, with a fruit cup and English muffins. But pancakes were a close second-place runner-up.
These pancakes have a hint of lemon, and are delicious with the hot blueberry sauce.
Lemon Pancakes with Hot Blueberry Topping
Makes about 10, 5-inch pancakes
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