Take 1 cup of Flour, and mix in 1 and 1/2 tsps Baking Powder and 1/2 tsp Salt. Add 1/2 cup Sugar, at least some of which should be Brown. Sprinkle about 1 tsp Ground Cinnamon into the dry mix and combine well. Take 1/2 cup Whole Milk, and whisk in gradually until the batter is wet and thick, with no unsightly lumps, like Michael Phelps. Fold in 1/2 cup of Sour Cream. Please do not use low or non fat, and please please do not use yogurt. Go to the corner store and get real sour cream, and don't forget to thank me later. Stir in 1/4 cup Honey. Heat up the pan, slather it with a buttload of real Butter. Do not use margarine or PAM: Do not make me come over there and churn you. Before the butter has a chance to scorch, ladle about 1/4 cup of batter per pancake into the pan. Adjust the heat if you need to. When bubbles appear on the surface of each pancake, it's time to flip them gently with a really good spatula. Layer pancakes onto a warm plate, and replenish butter in the pan between batches.
These do not require any condiments, but I am not going to tell you how to eat your pancakes. Enjoy, and hopefully the Fire Department will only come to mind because of their annual Pancake Breakfast.
We love our Shrove Tuesday pancakes, abut any pancake is a friend of mine.
ReplyDeleteRung then cal'd the Pancake-bell, the sound whereof makes thousands of people distracted, and forgetful either of manners or humanitie; then there is a thing called wheaten floure, which the cookes do mingle with water, eggs, spice, and other tragical, magical inchantments, and then they put it by little and little into a frying pan of boiling suet, where it makes a confused dismal hissing, (like the Lernean Snakes in the reeds of Acheron, Stix, or Phlegeton) until at last, by the skill of the Cooke, it is transformed into the forme of a Flip-Jack, cal'd a Pancake, which ominous incantation the ignorant people doe devoure very greedily.
Ah, engraved into the cornerstone of the first IHOP, no doubt.
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