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melody
True Blue Farmgirl
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Melody
The Great North Woods in the Land of Hiawatha
USA
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 Posted - Feb 20 2012 : 12:13:29 PM
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Is it that time of year already? Today, marks the beginning of National Pancake Week!
Here is our favorite pancake recipe:
Ingredients
3 eggs
2-1/2 cups milk
1-1/4 cups flour
½ teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons butter or 3 tablespoons margarine, melted
In a large mixing bowl, beat the eggs with half the milk.
Beat in flour and salt until smooth.
Stir in melted butter and remaining milk.
Heat a griddle or large skillet with a small amount of vegetable oil.
For each pancake, pour about 1/4 cup batter onto the griddle and cook over medium heat 1 to 2 minutes.With a spatula, turn the pancakes and cook until golden brown, about 1/2 minute.
Serve immediately or keep warm while making the remaining pancakes.
We like to top our Swedish pancakes with REAL maple syrup or spread a stack with a bit of my very own apple butter or plum jelly!
What is your favorite pancake recipe and topping?
Melody
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FebruaryViolet
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4810 Posts |
Posted - Feb 20 2012 : 12:27:37 PM
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Our is a 50 whole wheat flour/50 white flour with cinnamon and honey instead of sugar (adapted from Fanny Farmer Cookbook)served with tons of real farmhouse butter and real maple syrup.
I make pancakes about the size of small margarine tub tops, called "griddle cakes".
"Hey, I've got nothing to do today but smile..."
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gramadinah
True Blue Farmgirl
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Diana
Orofino
ID
USA
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Penny Wise
True Blue Farmgirl
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Margo
Elyria
OH
USA
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Posted - Feb 20 2012 : 7:37:49 PM
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i love pancakes tho i have to confess i use mix-
growing up; my step mom used to make silver dollar cakes- each one perfect! yummo--
i have to comment- i also love all things peanut butter so i got really excited once about a restaurant having peanut butter pancakes- they were horrible tho!
ok- i know what we're having tomorrow!!!!
Farmgirl # 2139
proud member of the Farmgirls of the Southwest Henhouse
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rough start farmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
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marianne
The Beautiful Pacific NW
Washington State
USA
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Posted - Feb 21 2012 : 02:13:00 AM
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Oh do those all look good. I'm lazy and use Aunt Jemima.
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Miss Bee Haven
True Blue Farmgirl
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Janice
Louisville/Irvington
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Feb 21 2012 : 06:14:56 AM
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Don't really have a fave recipe, but I'll be saving some of these. My current favorite pancakes are those draped in and soaking up fresh maple syrup, which we'll be having this weekend at an Indiana farm named 'Sugarbush'. They have a festival every year and you can have waffles or pancakes with their fresh maply syrup. All you can eat! :) Yum! And you can tour the place and see the process in action, too.
Farmgirl Sister #50
"If you think you've got it nailed down, then what's all that around it?"
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MEWolf
True Blue Farmgirl
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Margaret
Byers
Colorado
USA
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Posted - Feb 21 2012 : 07:01:25 AM
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**SIGH** for me it isn't about Pancakes today. I was raised in Pennsylvania Dutch country - Lancaster, PA. Today is all about Fasnachts...which, I miss :-(
Margaret
“Kind hearts are the gardens, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the flowers, kind deeds are the fruits. Take care of your garden and keep out the weeds, fill it with sunshine, kind words and kind deeds.” ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1808-1882)
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FebruaryViolet
True Blue Farmgirl
4810 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4810 Posts |
Posted - Feb 21 2012 : 07:11:13 AM
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@Janice--that sounds like a wonderful time! Maybe next year Violet and I can tag along for the fun--this Saturday, though, is her 3rd birthday party :)
"Hey, I've got nothing to do today but smile..."
The Only Living Boy in New York, Paul Simon |
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melody
True Blue Farmgirl
3329 Posts
Melody
The Great North Woods in the Land of Hiawatha
USA
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Posted - Feb 21 2012 : 07:11:47 AM
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Margaret...Fastnachts sounds pretty darn good too!
Melody |
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melody
True Blue Farmgirl
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Melody
The Great North Woods in the Land of Hiawatha
USA
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Posted - Feb 21 2012 : 07:15:13 AM
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We have a local sugar bush just north of us--- http://www.jaspermaple.com/
DH used to work there when he was younger. There is nothing else to compare to REAL maple sugar!
Melody |
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FebruaryViolet
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Feb 21 2012 : 07:38:16 AM
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I remember my first suitemate at Interlochen, Melody--she was from the "faith reformed" religion and lived on a maple sugar farm near Holland. Her mother would make maple sugar candy for the suite with strict instructions NOT to give any to me or to make it known to me that it was shared with the 2 other girls because their religion told them "dancing" was a sin. She disapproved of me immensely and the girl asked to be transferred to another suite when the quarter ended.
I love maple sugar candy, but oddly enough, it's a little bittersweet to me!!!
"Hey, I've got nothing to do today but smile..."
The Only Living Boy in New York, Paul Simon |
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MEWolf
True Blue Farmgirl
358 Posts
Margaret
Byers
Colorado
USA
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Posted - Feb 21 2012 : 08:06:53 AM
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Oh Jonni, what an awful thing!
Margaret
“Kind hearts are the gardens, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the flowers, kind deeds are the fruits. Take care of your garden and keep out the weeds, fill it with sunshine, kind words and kind deeds.” ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1808-1882)
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FebruaryViolet
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Feb 21 2012 : 08:09:03 AM
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It really was, Margaret--I was a classically trained ballerina for heaven sake, not a stripper! I could never figure out why she was at a performing arts school--the weirdness must have just eaten her alive!
One evening, though, I snuck into their room and ate the entire box of the candy--and put it back together, as if noone had touched it. Since I wasn't supposed to even know of its existence, she never even asked me if I knew anything about it's disappearance ;)
"Hey, I've got nothing to do today but smile..."
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knitnpickinatune
True Blue Farmgirl
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Sherrie
Gardena
California
USA
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melody
True Blue Farmgirl
3329 Posts
Melody
The Great North Woods in the Land of Hiawatha
USA
3329 Posts |
Posted - Feb 21 2012 : 09:48:58 AM
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Good for you Jonni! When I hear stories like that I think that some religious cultures must think us "English" are from MARS...wonder what ever happened to her?
Classic ballerina....SIGH! I have two left feet....
Melody |
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MEWolf
True Blue Farmgirl
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Margaret
Byers
Colorado
USA
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Posted - Feb 21 2012 : 10:26:19 AM
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Jonni, I can imagine that felt pretty good! Sometimes peoples' "perceptions" of reality become clouded by their dogma...
Margaret
“Kind hearts are the gardens, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the flowers, kind deeds are the fruits. Take care of your garden and keep out the weeds, fill it with sunshine, kind words and kind deeds.” ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1808-1882)
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FebruaryViolet
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Feb 21 2012 : 10:39:22 AM
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@Melody and Margaret--it did feel good! I was 15--I don't think I've ever done anything that underhanded again, I'm usually pretty up front with my words :)
I don't know where she went, really--oddly enough, it was a school of under 500 students from freshman to post grad, and we lived in the same dorm, but, her major was voice (ecclesastical studies), and she wasn't in a very popular group, so I never saw her after she transferred out of our suite. Which was fine by me. I know she was in my graduating class of 91, but she just became invisible to me after the whole candy thing :) I still remember her roommate, Kai Wen, who was Japanese and spoke very little English, trying to explain to me why she couldn't let me have a piece of candy and why they closed the door when the mom came to visit, etc...It came out like, "you see, you no have leaf candy because...uh, you move with you feet, you arms, move...." And I thought...what the hell? When my roommate told me (because she shared her candy with me), it was like "Oh! That's what Kai Wen was trying to say!!!!"
"Hey, I've got nothing to do today but smile..."
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FieldsofThyme
Farmgirl Guide & Schoolmarm / Chapter Leader
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ceejay48
Farmgirl Legend/Schoolmarm/Sharpshooter
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CeeJay (CJ)
Dolores
Colorado
USA
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Posted - Feb 22 2012 : 08:27:43 AM
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Well, our favorite is sourdough pancakes, however I haven't made them in a very long time. I don't have any sourdough starter going at the time. HOWEVER, we do have our favorite waffles almost every Sunday, OAT WALNUT waffles. I take old-fashioned oats and grind them in my food processor to make my own oat "flour" for these.
1 cup my oat flour
1 cup old fashioned oats
1 tblsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
Mix thoroughly with whisk and then add:
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla extract
2 tblsp. cooking oil
buttermilk, to appropriate consistency. I have to add more as I go because the batter thickens as it sits and we like our waffles light and crispy.
OPTIONAL: chopped nuts
TOPPINGS include (sometimes butter and syrup but not too much any more)
- peanut butter and honey or syrup
- yogurt and fruit
- yogurt and homemade fruit syrups
- coconut, chopped nuts and honey or syrup
CJ
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MEWolf
True Blue Farmgirl
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Margaret
Byers
Colorado
USA
358 Posts |
Posted - Feb 22 2012 : 09:36:53 AM
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Our favorite pancake recipe is Buckwheat!
Here is my favorite recipe. I use freshly ground buckwheat flour. These are light and fluffy:
Buckwheat Pancakes
Ingredients:
1 cup buckwheat flour
1 tsp. baking powder
2 Tbsp. sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
1 egg beaten
1 cup milk
2 Tbsp. melted butter
Directions:
Preheat griddle of large skilled to 375 degrees, grease lightly with oil.
Griddle is ready when small drops of water sizzle and disappear almost immediately.
Mix dry ingredients together; add egg, milk and butter, beating well after each addition.
Pour 1/4 batter for each pancake onto hot griddle. Cook 1 to 1 1/2 minutes, turning when edges look cooked and bubbles begin to break on surface. Continue to cook 1 to 1 1/2 minutes or until golden brown.
(For buttermilk buckwheat pancakes, use the recipe above, but add in 1 tsp. baking soda and substitute buttermilk for milk.)
Margaret
“Kind hearts are the gardens, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the flowers, kind deeds are the fruits. Take care of your garden and keep out the weeds, fill it with sunshine, kind words and kind deeds.” ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1808-1882)
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