This recipe is 2:2:3 flour to butter to heavy cream! I don’t think I’ve ever seen a pancakes recipe with this much fat. Was this typical for British cooking at the time?
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a dialects of English thing. In Britain: pancakes don't use baking powder. They're flat like a slighly thicker crepe. I would describe a thick fluffy pancake made with baking powder as a "Scotch pancake", but in Australia, the USA, Canada and New Zealand, that style is just a "pancake".
Pancakes in nz are not thick. You get pancakes which are like crepes, or pikelets which are like small American pancakes. American pancakes are disgusting. It’s like the equivalent of American carbon bacon.
Apologies, thanks for the correction.
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#54Fun fact: nutmeg is toxic to humans in surprisingly small amounts. I wouldn't eat half a nutmeg by myself in one sitting!
Whoa this flashed me back to being 14 years old, hearing nutmeg could get you high, and splitting an entire bottle of ground nutmeg with a friend. Felt like I had the flu for 2 days. Yeesh its good young people are resilient.
Should've tried the oil, it's much better. I'm currently investigating it as a microdosing nootropic, and results have been quite positive. I probably wouldn't recommend it for long term consistent usage though, because I would be fearful of long term toxicity build-up. More like an occasional creativity boost.
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#55George Orwell on the perfect cup of tea may also be of interest: https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...
Orwell is also good on pubs: https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...
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#56Fun fact: nutmeg is toxic to humans in surprisingly small amounts. I wouldn't eat half a nutmeg by myself in one sitting!
Whoa this flashed me back to being 14 years old, hearing nutmeg could get you high, and splitting an entire bottle of ground nutmeg with a friend. Felt like I had the flu for 2 days. Yeesh its good young people are resilient.
I also made the bad decision as a teenager to get high off nutmeg
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#57Never trust a skinny cook!
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Jo...
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#58My Pancake Batter:
3 large chicken eggs
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup sugar (add less if you don't want it so sweet but there will be less caramelising)
Mix well until it's all thoroughly homogeneous. Cook on a flat pan using the 1/2 cup size.
Bonus: put the pancake batter in a baking pan, add sliced fruit and it's now a clafoutis.
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#59Jeff Bezos, a notorious pancake aficionado, per the NY Times is allegedly fond of a recipe from the Joy of Cooking, which he would make for executives that would visit his home.
https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/joy-of-cooki...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/technology/jeff-bezos-ama...
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#60Looks more like a crepe than a pancake.
They remind me of “Swedish Pancakes” which are kind of in-between an American pancake and a crepe. No idea if they are actually Swedish but you can buy Lund’s Swedish pancake mix in the US and you get something similar
I'm Swedish, and I can confirm that all my Swedish cookbooks contain recipes for "pancakes", "crepes" and "American pancakes", which are definitely 3 different things, and a Swedish "pancake" is a lot like you describe it.
I also have a recipe for what my cookbook calls Danish pancakes, or "æbleskiver" in Danish. Those are more like small round doughnuts prepared in a special frying pan. I'm not sure if the Danish would consider those "pancakes" though.