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- From: simon@einode (Simon Kenyon)
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- Subject: RECIPE: Breakfast pancakes
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- Date: 13 Feb 87 06:19:00 GMT
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- .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE PANCAKES-2 B "3 Dec 86" 1987
- .RZ "BREAKFAST PANCAKES" "Light and fluffy breakfast pancakes"
- The formula comes from \fIThe Joy of Cooking\fR by Irma S. Rombauer and
- Marion Rombauer Becker. I bought the book when I was visiting California a
- few years back. The pancakes are to my liking, but my wife has had to endure
- vast quantities of failures before I got the right technique. These pancakes
- are amazing for their stupifying ability. No more than three can be eaten in
- one day. A slow and painful death will result from exceeding these guidelines.
- .IH "8\-10 6-inch pancakes" "8\-10 15-cm pancakes"
- .IG "1\(12 cups" "all-purpose flour" "150 g"
- .IG "1 tsp" "salt" "5 ml"
- .IG "3 Tbsp" "sugar" "75 g"
- .IG "1 \(34 tsp" "baking powder" "9 ml"
- .IG "\(14 tsp" "vanilla essence" "1 ml"
- .IG "2" "eggs"
- .IG "3 Tbsp" "butter," "50 g"
- melted
- .IG "10 floz" "milk" "300 ml"
- .PH
- .SK 1
- Put a frying pan on a low to medium heat and melt the butter.
- .SK 2
- Whilst the butter is melting, measure the flour and sift into a large
- mixing bowl.
- .SK 3
- Add the salt, sugar and baking powder.
- .SK 4
- Measure the milk in a measuring jug.
- .SK 5
- Separate the eggs and place the whites in a cup, adding the yolks to
- the milk.
- .SK 6
- Add the melted butter from the frying pan. Remove as much from the pan as
- you can, but don't be too particular. The remaining butter in the frying
- pan will be used to cook the pancakes in. I use a rubber spatula to get
- most of it off the pan. Leave the ring on, but don't put the pan back on it.
- (I have an electric cooker which takes a long time to heat up).
- In this way you can start cooking the pancakes as soon as the batter is ready.
- .SK 7
- When the butter has coagulated, add the liquid mixture to the dry
- ingredients and mix them up. I use a metal spoon. It is at this stage you
- can judge whether the mixture has the right consistency.
- .SK 8
- Wash the measuring jug and dry it thoroughly. Pour the egg whites
- into it and whisk with an electric hand-held whisk. I whisk them until they are
- quite hard.
- .SK 9
- If there are lumps in the batter, you can user the whisk to get rid of them.
- .SK 10
- Using the spatula (from the butter, right?), transfer all the egg whites into
- the big bowl.
- .SK 11
- Fold the egg whites into the batter with the metal spoon until they are all
- incorporated. The batter is now ready.
- .SK 12
- Put the frying pan back on the heat and wait until it is to a reasonable
- temperature. I can't be more specific because it depends on your cooker and
- the frying pan that you are using.
- .SK 13
- Make the pancakes one at a time, turning them over when the underside is
- cooked. Eat immediately with butter and maple syrup.
- .NX
- The order that I do things is the result of much experimentation.
- I have a Creda Cavalier and use a Fissler German-made corrugated-bottom
- frying pan. With this combination I set the ring to 2.75-3.0.
- .PP
- One way to test is to place a small dollop of batter in the frying pan.
- It should take about 1-2 minutes to brown. As the underside is browning,
- bubbles should be forming on the top surface. The consitency of the batter
- and the temperature of cooking are correct when the bubbles fail to burst
- when the underside is fully cooked.
- .PP
- Now that I know what I'm doing, they're easy, but I had a awful lot of
- failures to start with. Don't expect success the first time. You won't be
- disappointed. The effort is worth it in the long run.
- What is important is to get the moisture content of the batter correct.
- If it is too sloppy; then the pancakes will be flat and stodgy. If the
- batter is too dry; then the pancakes will burn before they are cooked.
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- moderate until you learn the technique.
- .I Time:
- 30 minutes preparation, 30 minutes cooking.
- .I Precision:
- measure the ingredients.
- .WR
- Simon Kenyon
- The National Software Centre, Dublin, IRELAND
- simon@einode.UUCP
-