This stuff: local maple syrup. Made just a few miles from my house.
Boiled down over a fire in a stand of maples.
If you close your eyes, you can taste the
snow and the smoke and the wood that made it.
A friend gave me the syrup after my holiday concert in November and I've been carefully rationing it. Winter weekend mornings have been brighter and warmer with pancakes and waffles and this stuff.
By the way, here's my friend's family's pancake recipe. NEVER had better pancakes. This recipe is word-for-word from the family cookbook, thus the humorous side-notes. The batch makes more than two people can eat (unless one of you is very large and very hungry), but would be just right for four.
Pancakes
Sift into a mixing bowl...
2 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
Beat together...
2 eggs
2 cups buttermilk
1/4 cup melted butter
Pour wet ingredients over dry and mix, saving butter until last.
This combination of ingredients can be easily changed for a smaller or
larger amount. Instead of buttermilk, sweet milk could be soured with
1 tbls of vinegar to a cup of milk.
Dick says to omit the butter or oil, Grace says it helps the cakes not
to stick to the pan. (Dick and Grace, the friend's parents)
We sometimes use some different flour (wheat, etc) instead of all
white. Blueberries can be added, too.
There are only two cardinal sins of pancake baking. Turning a cake
more than once and slapping the turner onto the pancake just after
turning.
By the way, here's my friend's family's pancake recipe. NEVER had better pancakes. This recipe is word-for-word from the family cookbook, thus the humorous side-notes. The batch makes more than two people can eat (unless one of you is very large and very hungry), but would be just right for four.
Pancakes
Sift into a mixing bowl...
2 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
Beat together...
2 eggs
2 cups buttermilk
1/4 cup melted butter
Pour wet ingredients over dry and mix, saving butter until last.
This combination of ingredients can be easily changed for a smaller or
larger amount. Instead of buttermilk, sweet milk could be soured with
1 tbls of vinegar to a cup of milk.
Dick says to omit the butter or oil, Grace says it helps the cakes not
to stick to the pan. (Dick and Grace, the friend's parents)
We sometimes use some different flour (wheat, etc) instead of all
white. Blueberries can be added, too.
There are only two cardinal sins of pancake baking. Turning a cake
more than once and slapping the turner onto the pancake just after
turning.
God bless Dick and Grace!
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