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Re: Show HN: I Derived a Pancake

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Post by MisterTea »

my_throwaway23 wrote: post #95

Perhaps you could add a classic Swedish take on pancakes/crepes - whisk a moderate numbers of eggs with milk (4 eggs for every litre of milk is a good starting point, but dealers choice), flour until a nice consistency, fry in a pan until they're your chosen colour of done. Serve with strawberry jam, or any sweet condiment of your choice. Edit: Also, what in the name of all that's holy - looking beyond the generator,…

My goto is a crepe recipe from an old Betty Crocker cookbook. eggs, flour, bit of sugar, vanilla extract and butter I think. Toppings I like are home made berry compote, blueberry being my favorite along with raspberry and blackberry, and maple syrup. I've also made blintz by adding farmers cheese with compote to sweeten.

Re: Show HN: I Derived a Pancake

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Post by sailfast »

my_throwaway23 wrote: post #95

Perhaps you could add a classic Swedish take on pancakes/crepes - whisk a moderate numbers of eggs with milk (4 eggs for every litre of milk is a good starting point, but dealers choice), flour until a nice consistency, fry in a pan until they're your chosen colour of done. Serve with strawberry jam, or any sweet condiment of your choice. Edit: Also, what in the name of all that's holy - looking beyond the generator,…

Crepes / pannekoeken are tough because they are almost always a “you know it when you see it” amount of flour and milk to get the batter right.

Re: Show HN: I Derived a Pancake

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Post by sailfast »

chickensong wrote: post #10
thechao wrote: post #3

A ten hour wait doesn't really strike me as a pancake? You should have a "it's 730am, there's four screaming girls, only two of which are related to me, the dogs are begging for scraps, and the demand for pancakes has crossed into Veblen goods territory."

One size doesn't fit all. By your logic, homemade sourdough isn't bread, you should have packaged Wonder bread. Keep a box of Krusteaz in the pantry for the kid sleepovers, prepare the night before for an adult brunch.

This is the way.

Re: Show HN: I Derived a Pancake

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Post by losvedir »

Yuck, those pancakes look and sound gross to me. Obviously this is one person's perspective (or at least, one robot's perspective apparently), on a personal site, so they can say what they want. But none of it resonates with me. I like my pancakes light colored, sometimes even a little battery in the middle. My wife and kids like it more cooked than that, but certainly less than in the image. And we definitely don't like "tang".

The only real answer is to make a bunch of pancakes and get feedback from the people eating them.

Re: Show HN: I Derived a Pancake

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Post by thechao »

chickensong wrote: post #10
thechao wrote: post #3

A ten hour wait doesn't really strike me as a pancake? You should have a "it's 730am, there's four screaming girls, only two of which are related to me, the dogs are begging for scraps, and the demand for pancakes has crossed into Veblen goods territory."

One size doesn't fit all. By your logic, homemade sourdough isn't bread, you should have packaged Wonder bread. Keep a box of Krusteaz in the pantry for the kid sleepovers, prepare the night before for an adult brunch.

I go down to Abby Jane in Dripping Springs to get my freshly made sourdough, thankyouverymuch.

Re: Show HN: I Derived a Pancake

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Post by riffraff »

> This is not a pancake in the modern sense, but it is a batter cooked on a flat hot surface, which is the definition of one.

Are you sure it was a batter and not a dough? That would make it an archaic flatbread rather than pancake :)

(tho I guess cattails have no gluten to make kneading possible, but there are other flatbreads made of roots)

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