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June 1, 2008

Pancakes for breakfast

The thing I like about Saturday mornings is that I can wake up when I want to awake, stretch, think about the day to come.. enjoy a leisurely breakfast. Especially when it had been raining all night and still was drizzling. That meant no inline skating at East Coast Park today.
Decided to fix some pancakes - something holiday like about eating pancakes drizzled with syrup, oozing with melting butter, accompanied by a cup of good latte. Mmmm
Spied some slightly overripe pears sitting forlornly on the kitchen counter and decided to incorporate them into the pancakes. The bits of pear kinda prevented the batter from spreading out nicely - so instead of nice round pancakes, I ended up with ones that looked like a map of some island with crenulated coastline, with many little bays and headlands. (Freudian? I must be wanting a beach holiday!)

Pear Pancakes
  • 1 cup all purpose flour
  • 0.25 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 1.5 tsp baking powder
  • 0.25tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1 egg
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 Tsp melted butter/oil
  • 1 cup chopped pears

Mix dry ingredients together, make a well in the centre and add beaten egg, milk, butter and vanilla extract. Add pears.
Heat non stick pan, spray with oil if desired.
Use about 1/4 cup batter for each pancake
If nice round pancakes are desired, add the fruit on top of the batter after pouring onto griddle.
Cook until bubbles are seen on the surface, and edges are dry
Flip over and cook till nicely golden (2nd side cooks faster than 1st side)
Serve warm with butter and honey/maple syrup

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