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John Locke’s recipe for Pancakes (2021)

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Re: John Locke’s recipe for Pancakes (2021)

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Post by xenodium »

OJFord wrote: post #82
xenodium wrote: post #73

I love pancakes, crepes, etc. If you have a ripe banana available, I'm a fan of this 4-ingredient banana/oats pancake recipe. Blend the following: Ripe banana. 2 Eggs. 1/3 cup instant oats. 1/2 teaspoon baking powder. Low heat. Cooke 3 minutes. Flip. Cook one minute. That's it. Here's what mine looked like https://xenodium.com/banana-oats-pancakes-recipe

Arguably that's an (remarkably homogeneously consisted) omelette?

I expected this too, but is now one of the three pancake recipes I regularly use and on the "healthier" side. Don't over-blend and you should be ok. They do take lower heat to cook (and thus longer to flip) than typical pancakes.

Re: John Locke’s recipe for Pancakes (2021)

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Post by mongol »

JetSetWilly wrote: post #100
mongol wrote: post #79

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Curious: Why do you write it 01694 and not 1694?

> nutmeg is toxic to humans in surprisingly small amounts. I wouldn't eat half a nutmeg by myself in one sitting! It seems to be an affectation encouraged by the Long Now Foundation: https://longnow.org/ideas/02013/12/31/long-now-years-five-di...

I can kind of understand it if you develop a database schema. But I don't see the point for regular text. No constraints exist, you can write whatever numbers you want.

Re: John Locke’s recipe for Pancakes (2021)

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assttoasstmgr wrote: post #59

Jeff 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...

Speaking of old pancake recipes and the Times, I’m very fond of the NYT 1966 Dutch Baby recipe. It’s said to be Amanda Hesser’s favourite recipe.

https://mobile.twitter.com/i/web/status/1477263398303932420

Sorry for the Twitter link, but unlike the actual recipe on their site, there’s no paywall here. Note it requires a cast iron skillet, which isn’t clearly called out here. Serve it with some syrup and fried apple slices.

Re: John Locke’s recipe for Pancakes (2021)

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Post by amelius »

assttoasstmgr wrote: post #59

Jeff 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...

I thought he was more into space cake ...

Re: John Locke’s recipe for Pancakes (2021)

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Post by vidarh »

niho wrote: post #63
chucky wrote: post #60

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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 wo…

To further complicate the pancake taxonomy there is also the curiosity of “plättar”. Very small pancakes made in a special frying pan for more festive occasions. Not sure about their origin, but they are very common in Småland in the south of Sweden. https://sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plättar#/media/Fil%3APlattla...

Plättar sounds a bit like Norwegian lapper. E.g.:

https://www.tine.no/oppskrifter/kaker/vafler-og-smakaker/sve...

But my favourite variant is rislapper, where the starting point is cold rice porridge:

https://www.tine.no/oppskrifter/kaker/vafler-og-smakaker/ris...

As a child we'd often have rice porridge one day, and if there were leftovers we'd have rislapper a day or two later.

You can make it in a regular pan, as the mix is thick enough it'll stay together, so just make them small.

(I strongly object, however, to the use of sour cream, jam and pistachio's to serve with them, and wonder what they'd been smoking - I prefer butter and a sprinkling of sugar)

Re: John Locke’s recipe for Pancakes (2021)

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Post by jfengel »

bcherny wrote: post #51

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?

That was my thought as well. That's very, very rich.

But not uncommon. Hannah Glasse's recipe is similar:

https://www.mountvernon.org/inn/recipes/article/paper-pancak...

I wish I could dig up the original quote, but I loved a story from a cookbook owned by Martha Washington, for eggs poached in butter. Paraphrased: "The profligate French use four pounds of butter, but we frugal Americans use only one pound of butter."

They ate a lot of fat, when they could get it. The sort of people who couldn't get it also didn't write cookbooks. Or use so much of an expensive imported spice.

Re: John Locke’s recipe for Pancakes (2021)

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Post by jfengel »

foobar1962 wrote: post #86
eps wrote: post #66

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Not quite. This keeps all milk solids.

Ah, thanks for saying that. I was thinking I could cheat and use ghee instead of melting the butter myself.

You can do that, though it won't brown quite as well.

I generally skip the skimming step, though it can burn if the heat is too high. Ghee is fantastic for high heat cooking.

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