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PANCAKES

Everyone, in every culture, has some form of what we in America call Pancakes. Whether you like them smothered in maple syrup, filled with fruit, or my favorite, hot chile peppers, a pancake is Yyyummyyy!

LATKES - POTATO PANCAKES

Latkes are fried in oil and eaten to help celebrate Hanukkah. When the Maccabees found only a small amount of oil in the Holy Temple, they were surprised when the oil in the lamp burned for eight days. Latkes are eaten to remember this miracle.

Food Ingredients
6 medium-size potatoes
1 onion
2 eggs
2 oz.flour
1 teaspoon salt
oil for deep frying

Peel and grate the potatoes into a mixing bowl. The secret to crispy latkes is to squeeze out the liquid from the potatoes. Press down on them with a big spoon and pour off the liquid. Peel and grate the onion into the potatoes. Add eggs, flour and salt and stir to make a smooth batter that will drop heavily from the spoon. Heat the fat in a heavy frying pan, drop the batter from a spoon into the hot fat, making pancakes 3 inches in diameter. Fry over moderate heat until brown on the underside, turn and brown other side. Lift out and drain off excess fat - put them on paper towels. Serve with your favorite homemade applesauce and sour cream.


BLINI - FROM RUSSIA

Food Ingredients
3/4oz. yeast
3/4lb. sifted flour
3 eggs, separated
1/2 pint milk
2 tbsp. cream
a pinch of salt

Dissolve yeast in 1/2 pint milk and make a dough with part of the flour. Leave to rise in a warm place like in the kitchen with a clean cloth over the dough. Add remaining flour, egg yolks, cream and salt to the dough and mix well to form a thickish batter. Add stiffly beaten egg whites to the mixture and leave for 1/2 hour. Fry pancakes in a small pan. Spread with butter, sour cream, caviar or smoked fish.

All of these wonderful pancake recipes involve cooking on the stove or in the oven. For this, we highly recommend that you convince an adult to be your kitchen assistant.


FABULOUS FINNISH PANCAKE

Food Ingredients
3 eggs
2 teaspoons salt
1/4 cup sugar
2 cups milk
3/4 cup flour
butter for baking
1 tbsp. cinnamon

First, beat the eggs until they are foamy. Then, add the remaining ingredients and mix it all together until it is well blended. Pour this mixture into a buttered baking pan and bake at 400 degrees for 30 minutes. When the cake is done, sprinkle a little powdered sugar and cinnamon on top. Now you have a nice, simple Pancake.


DAZZLING DANISH PANCAKES

Food Ingredients
1 1/2 cups flour
1/4 cups butter
2 cups milk
3 eggs
3 teaspoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon vanilla

First, warm the milk. Then, stir the sifted flour into the warmed milk. Once blended, stir in the melted butter, eggs, sugar, salt, cinnamon and vanilla. Now, it's time to melt 1 teaspoon of butter in a pan and pour in just 1 tablesppon of batter so that it spreads out evenly in a thin layer covering the whole bottom of pan. Cook the cake until it is golden brown and crisp on both sides. These pancakes are best served hot with your favorite jam or fruit preserves.


SUPER-DUPER CHINESE SCALLION PANCAKES

Food Ingredients
2/3 cup flour
1/3 cup water
some butter or margarine
1/2 teaspoon of salt
3 teaspoons sugar
1/2 cup chopped green onions/scallions divided to 3 portions
3 tablespoons of cooking oil

To make the dough, mix together the flour and water in a medium sized bowl. Divide the dough into 3 equal parts. Put 2 of the parts to the side to work with later. Roll out one of the dough balls into a rectangular shape on a lightly floured surface. Spread some butter or margarine over this rectangle to cover surface and then sprinkle with salt and 1/3 of the green onions. Now, roll the dough up TIGHTLY and then coil the dough around so it looks almost like a snail shell. Next, you'll need to roll this coil out and make it as flat as possible. Repeat these steps with the other 2 dough balls. Now it's time to heat up the frying pan with a tablespoon of oil. Fry both sides of pancake until golden. The whole thing won't be brown, only the spots where it's actually touching the pan. Serve this pancake hot with some soy sauce.


THAI COCONUT PANCAKES

Food Ingredients
1 cup rice flour
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 can (14 oz.) unsweetened coconut milk
4 eggs
3/4 cup shredded coconut
Vegetable oil
Sweetened condensed milk

First, beat together the flour, sugar, salt, coconut milk and eggs in medium bowl until the mixture is smooth. Then, stir in shredded coconut. Next, it is time for an adult to heat the oil frying pan. When the oil is hot enough, pour 2 tablespoons of the mixture into the pan. You can probably fit 5 or 6 pancakes at a time. Cook both sides until they are golden brown. Drizzle with sweetened condensed milk, and sprinkle with coconut.


CHAPATTIS - INDIAN GRIDDLE CAKES

Food Ingredients
1/2 lb. Wholewheat flour
Water
1/2 lb. White flour

Take a large deep dish and knead the flour in it with water to make a soft dough. Heat the griddle. Take small pieces of the dough and roll them into small balls. Flatten them with a rolling pin on a pastry board or marble slab into thin pancakes. Cook them on a greased griddle on both sides. Indian Cooks take a clean cloth and press the pancake gently before taking it off the griddle to make it puff up with air like a balloon.. Use your Chapattis to scoop up delicious curries.


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