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The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

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Re: The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

#141

Is the "Dutch Baby" in the pancake group some alternative name for "flensjes" that I'm not familiar with? It's a thin dessert variation of Dutch pancakes that has relatively high egg and milk ratios compared to flour.

No (1). I believe that it's "Dutch" in the same sense as "Pennsylvania Dutch" (2) - i.e. an American version of "Deutsch", actually German.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_baby_pancake

2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Dutch

Re: The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

#142

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I would add sugar. Egg nog is listed on the triangle as away from flour, but it is extremely high in carbs. When I was a kid, I loved egg nog and a couple of years ago I decided to purchase some. I liked it so much I drank the whole half gallon in a day. That night I had horrible painful bloating and looked at the ingredients label to find "sugar", "cane sugar". "corn syrup", and "high fructose corn syrup".

It's not so much that it's high in carbs, it's extraordinarily high in fat. Its main ingredients are egg yolks and heavy cream along with the sugar. What you're describing is like eating an entire cheesecake or drinking a pitcher of melted premium ice cream. The bloating is from the enormous amount of fatty calories that are slow to digest. Not really about the sugar. (And of course it has sugar, it's essentially a d…

My money is on the amount of lactose in all that dairy. There's a lot of lactose in a half gallon of nog.

Re: The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

#143
My breakfast recipe this morning, thanks to this article:

- 1/4 c. milk

- 1/2 c. flour

- 4 eggs

- 1/3 c. sugar

- some salt

- cinnamon

- cloves

- nutmeg

- poppyseeds

Did the first two cakes without baking powder, turned into something between a crepe and a tortilla. Did the last two cakes with baking powder and they were just a very squishy pancake.

Re: The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

#144
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Egg paratha is a common Indian dish. The dough can be made with flour and water, but is traditionally made with flour and milk. https://www.thedeliciouscrescent.com/omelette-stuffed-parath...

Roti Telur is basically Egg Paratha. Indian migrants brought Paratha to Malaysia and Singapore, and it underwent some "localization" to suit the local palate, including being drenched in palm oil as it is cooked on the flat griddle. Sure fire way to clog your arteries, if eaten on a daily basis.

The palm oil makes the difference. Not exactly drenched, but just enough for the crispy Mallard reaction.

It's a little simpler than the given recipe too. Just a regular paratha, crack an egg directly onto it, then cook on a griddle.

Re: The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

#145
I'm sorry, but I can't take seriously any topic in breakfast that leaves out the Taj Mahal of breakfast: stuffed French toast. I know there is reasoning for it but its inexcusable. Its like leaving Miracle Max out of a discussion of best physicians because he's fictional.

There's also no mention of the fourth leg of the breakfast triad: maple syrup.

Re: The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

#149
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It has been speculated that over half of the breakfast in the universe is dark breakfast.

By mass, sure - but have you considered delectability?

Even though it's not delectable by current methods, we can observe dark breakfasts effects on the movement of dietary bodies.

Re: The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

#150
The Irish full breakfast (fry up) includes soda bread, often fresh baked. That with the eggs likely puts it in the "Dark Breakfast" sector. Other sorts of full breakfast may also end up there, there's no true fixed set of ingredients in a full breakfast so any egg-heavy variety can end up in the "dark" sector.
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