Pancakes, Pancakes
March 25th, 2006 Caroline
One of Ben’s favorite books lately is Eric Carle’s Pancakes, Pancakes. I like it, too, and I love the busy mother’s response to her son’s demand for pancakes: go harvest some wheat, take it to the miller to grind it into flour, milk the cow for some milk, etc, etc. Eventually he’s assembled most of the ingredients they need for pancakes, but the final recipe is a bit plain: 1 cup flour, 1 egg, 1 cup milk. Hmm. That’d be one leaden pancake, I think.
The other day, Ben wanted to cook breakfast and I wanted to use up some apples, so we made these very tasty pancakes, from Moosewood Cooks at Home:
1 large apple (about 3/4 c grated)
1/2 c small curd cottage cheese
2 eggs
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1 tbsp maple syrup
dash of salt
1/4 c flour
1 tsp baking powder
Peel, core, and grate the apple in to a mixing bowl. Add the cottage cheese, eggs, cinnamon, syrup and salt and mix thoroughly. Sift in the flour and baking powder and stir well.
That’s your batter; I trust you can take it from there.
This morning, another pancake project. I had offered a “breakfast feast”– homemade granola, homemade pancake mix, and homemade maple syrup (thanks, Dad!)–for auction at Ben’s preschool last weekend, and it was time to deliver. I’d found a recipe for pancake mix on the web somewhere and mixed it up, then realized maybe I shouldn’t deliver it until I knew it worked. Someone had paid for this, after all. So we scooped out some mix and made a small test batch, and it’s great! The best plain pancakes I’ve ever made! So now I’ll make a batch of mix for ourselves because honestly, despite how lame it may seem to use pancake mix, havingonly one dry ingredient to measure out is going to make pancakes happen more often. And a day that starts with pancakes is a good day.
Pancake Mix
4 c flour
1 c buttermilk powder
1/4 c sugar
4 tsp baking powder
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
Mix well and store in the fridge until pancake time.
To make pancakes, combine:
1 1/2 c pancake mix
1 c water
1 egg
2 tbsp oil
Let the batter sit for 5 minutes or so before cooking.
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2 Comments
1. Libby | March 26th, 2006 at 9:16 am
Mm, I love those apple pancakes, and the pancake mix looks great! Maybe I’ll mix some of that up as well when I get home…
2. mom | March 27th, 2006 at 5:14 pm
Our local ABC-TV Saturday news features a celebrity chef, and last week’s was George Stella, who prepared ‘Cinnamon Toast Pancakes’. It features Almond flour (make your own!) and milled flax seed -I have the recipe if anyone wants it!