Pancakes

[Tallswife]

Now, I know you have eaten our rich uncle's delicious C-rations. If you can eat them, you are a man, my son, and you can eat nearly anything. Compared to C-rations, Micky D's is a gourmet restaurant and raw toaster pop-ups are ambrosia.

My grandfather fed us leftover c-rats, does that make me a man too?? :rotf: :rotf:

 

[satx78247]

Certainly NOT. - No more than refusing to eat MREs would make you into an Ethiopian lady.
(CHUCKLE.)

yours, satx

 

[Tallswife]

Certainly NOT. - No more than refusing to eat MREs would make you into an Ethiopian lady.
(CHUCKLE.)

yours, satx

Damn, another dream shattered!!

 

[George]

Damn, another dream shattered!!

Don't forget what the sage said...

A woman who seeks to be equal to men has no ambition.

Spence

 

[Tallswife]

:rotf: :rotf:

 

[coloradoclyde]

You guys even know what a crumpet is?.... :haha:
It's like a cross between a pancake and a English muffin.....

Like these?
http://s881.photobucket.com/user/Spence_2010/slideshow/Crumpets

Spence

Once again you amazed me!... :thumbsup:
Care to share the recipe?

 

[George]

Care to share the recipe?

Trolling me OT?

Well, I'll take the chance. Crumpet recipes are like opinions, everybody has one. This is one I've use successfully.

CRUMPETS
The Good Housekeeping Cookery Book

3 cups minus 1 tablespoon bread flour
1 1/2 tsp. active dry yeast
pinch sugar
1 1/4 cup tepid water
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. bicarbonate of soda
1 cup minus 1 tablespoon milk

Dissolve the yeast in 3 tablespoons of the water with the pinch of sugar. Sift the flour into a mixing bowl, and pour the dissolved yeast into a well in the center, follow with milk and water. Mix to give a thick batter consistency.
Using a wooden spoon, vigorously beat the batter for about 5 minutes to incorporate air. Cover and leave in a warm place for 1 hour, until sponge-like in texture. Beat the batter for a further 2 minutes to incorporate air.
Place a large, preferably non-stick frying pan onto a medium-high heat and, using absorbent kitchen paper, rub a little vegetable oil on the surface.
Grease the insides of three crumpet rings or 3 to 3 1/4-in plain metal pastry cutters. Place the rings blunt edge down on to the hot surface and leave for about 2 minutes, or until very hot.
Pour the batter into a large measuring jug. Stir in the bicarbonate of soda and wait until the batter puffs. Pour a little batter into each ring to a depth of about 1/2 inch.
Cook the crumpets for 5-7 minutes until the surface of each appears dry and is honey-combed with holes.
When the batter has set, carefully remove each metal ring. Flip the crumpet over and cook the second side for 1 minute only. Cool on a wire rack. Continue until all batter is used. it is important that the frying pan and rings are oiled each time, and heated before batter is poured in.
When required, toast the crumpets on both sides and serve hot.

Spence

 

[satx78247]

My Aunt Mary used to do that sometimes on Sunday AM for my breakfast, when I was a little kid.

Also, she made French toast with a hole in the middle, into which she broke an egg for "egg in the hole", then surrounded it with bacon, before I added the butter & syrup.

yours, satx

 

[coloradoclyde]

Trolling me OT?

Nope!....I don't have a crumpet recipe...and have never made them...

But I was half expecting Something from the Virginia Gazette or maybe the Queen herself... :haha:

Thanks Spence....I look forward to making them.

 

[sidelock]

Do y7ou smear jam or syrup on em?

 

[coloradoclyde]

Just butter for me...

 

[George]

It has been a long time since I made crumpets, but back then I liked various jams/preserves and butter on them. Strawberry freezer jam was a favorite. Same with English muffins.







The British know stuff.

Spence

 

[coloradoclyde]

Wife went to the store a couple hours ago and asked me what kind of bread I wanted...I said " English Muffins".... :haha:

 

[Billnpatti]

Now, I know you have eaten our rich uncle's delicious C-rations. If you can eat them, you are a man, my son, and you can eat nearly anything. Compared to C-rations, Micky D's is a gourmet restaurant and raw toaster pop-ups are ambrosia.

My grandfather fed us leftover c-rats, does that make me a man too?? :rotf: :rotf:

Well, C-rats were mighty powerful stuff but that may be asking a LOT of them. However, if you were subjected to many of them, I'd make a careful check in the bathroom mirror. If any changes are taking place, it would be best to nip them in the bud. :rotf:

 

[Billnpatti]

I have tried it just to see what it was like. My advice is to throw it away. The stuff is awful, absolutely awful :barf: and that comes from a man who could eat C-rations. Pancakes, or anything, made from mesquite flour will taste like old used Dr. Sholl's foot pads...maybe not even that good. :nono:

There are several varieties of mesquite trees, and not all of them are appropriate for making flour. Those in the know about this say you should never grind pods until you eat one off the tree to make sure it's the sweet, nutty kind. The others are said to have a very unpleasant sharp, puckery taste which sticks with you. They also advise picking the mature pods off the tree, only, not off the ground.

Sounds as though you might have chanced on flour made from the wrong pods. Or maybe those C-rations killed your taste buds? :haha:

Spence

Well, it is quite possible that I got hold of the wrong kind of mesquite seeds. The ones that I got, I picked off the tree when they were dry. They were trees that were in the area of the Old San Antonio Road. I hulled out the seeds and used them to make the meal. I ground the meal in a clean coffee grinder to a texture similar to cornmeal.

As an interesting side note, the original Old San Antonio Road between Nacogdoches and San
Antonio had been replaced by a newer road that had been relocated in a different location. Many years later, historians wanted to know the original location of the Old San Antonio Road and one of the ways they found it was by the mesquite trees growing along the old route. They were there because the animals (horses and cattle) had been fed mesquite beans as their feed. Also, Native Americans, who had used the original road had also eaten the mesquite beans as they traveled. They left a trail of undigested mesquite seeds which eventually grew up into a line of mesquite trees which helped to locate the original OSAR. See, you learned something else on this forum. Does the learning ever quit?

 

[Billnpatti]

I was looking at an article on mesquites in The Texas Almanac and found this:

When ripe, the beans are covered by a sweetish coating, which has a sugar content as high as 30 percent. This author can personally attest that they are delicious to chew (you chew the coating off the beans, not the beans themselves) as a substitute for the candy your parents won’t let you have.

I have lived in Texas since 1949 and been around mesquite trees all that time, I surely didn't know that. It leads me to believe that, just as you suggested, I likely had the wrong kind of mesquite seeds.

Also in the same article, I found this:

Cattle eat mesquite beans when grass is not plentiful. The bean’s husks are so hard that about 50 percent of them travel through cattle’s digestive systems unscathed, to be deposited on the ground with a large helping of natural fertilizer. The historians figured that cattle distributed seeds along the trails as they went north.

While it wasn't speaking specifically of the locating of the original OSAR, this is how mesquite trees contributed to its location.

It's amazing how topics on this forum can wander so far afield from the original post. Look how we have wondered from pancakes to cow poop on a trail. :rotf:

 

[George]

Look how we have wondered from pancakes to cow poop on a trail. :rotf:

Not so far off topic, maybe...I've had pancakes that weren't much better than cow poop on a trail. :haha:

Spence

 

[BillinOregon]

Funny, I was just looking at English muffin recipes a couple of days ago. Really have to make a batch.

 

[Kansas Jake]

With all this talk of pancakes, I made myself a batch for breakfast this morning with an egg on the side. I covered them with good old Karo Dark Corn syrup. For desert I had one with butter and sugar on top. I have a few for left over for breakfast tomorrow.

My wife is on a health kick and passed on the pancakes. Good for her.

 

[Billnpatti]

Have you ever made bread pudding from day old doughnuts.

Hmmm!....Haven't had bread pudding since I was a kid... :hmm:

Like the advertisement for Wolf Brand Chili says "Well, that's too long."

P.S. I can't stand canned chili, Wolf Brand or any other. I make mine fresh or I don't eat chili. In fact, I don't like the taste of any canned stew or other canned meat mixture. However, I do like the new Spam cut into chunks and fried with eggs and I like Vienna Sausages....go figure.