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January 6, 2015 4:14 AM Subscribe
Some of you old timers here at MeFi will no doubt recall how pancakes used to play a big part around here: we loved pancakes, we respected pancakes, and we mentioned or discussed them with great frequency. In recent times, however, the noble pancake is seldom seen here on the blue. I think it's time to get back to our roots. And let's do it with monkey and ape pancakes. Beatles pancakes and beetles pancakes. The Walking Dead pancakes. Skull pancakes and zombie pancakes and, dooby dooby doo, Frank Sinatra pancakes. Not to mention pansnakes. Bon appétit!
Saipancakes previously.
Saipancakes previously.
Eponysterical!
posted by Mizu at 4:36 AM on January 6, 2015 [13 favorites]
posted by Mizu at 4:36 AM on January 6, 2015 [13 favorites]
Oh, boy! Thanks for posting this. I've been waiting for a waffle post on the blue. Waffles are just my favorite. The best recipe is probably First Lady Florence Harding's.
Warren G. Harding LOVED waffles. There's a plaque in his boyhood home with the following quote: "You eat the first fourteen waffles without syrup, but with lots of butter. Then you put syrup on the next nine, and the last half-dozen you eat simply swimming in syrup. Eaten that way, waffles never hurt anybody."
I sure love waffles!
posted by duffell at 4:47 AM on January 6, 2015 [11 favorites]
Warren G. Harding LOVED waffles. There's a plaque in his boyhood home with the following quote: "You eat the first fourteen waffles without syrup, but with lots of butter. Then you put syrup on the next nine, and the last half-dozen you eat simply swimming in syrup. Eaten that way, waffles never hurt anybody."
I sure love waffles!
posted by duffell at 4:47 AM on January 6, 2015 [11 favorites]
Speaking of pancakes, we are now into our second decade without an Aaron sighting. And coming up on seven years without anything from amberglow. I hope they're both okay.
posted by Curious Artificer at 5:02 AM on January 6, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by Curious Artificer at 5:02 AM on January 6, 2015 [3 favorites]
On seeing that username, my pavlovian response is to meep plaintively I miss amberglow.
posted by infini at 5:07 AM on January 6, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by infini at 5:07 AM on January 6, 2015 [1 favorite]
And of course, a rabbit with a pancake on its head.
posted by marxchivist at 5:12 AM on January 6, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by marxchivist at 5:12 AM on January 6, 2015 [2 favorites]
AMBERGLOW
posted by quonsar II: smock fishpants and the temple of foon at 5:18 AM on January 6, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by quonsar II: smock fishpants and the temple of foon at 5:18 AM on January 6, 2015 [3 favorites]
One detail that frequently goes unmentioned is the bowls. Big. Cold. Big. Whipping egg whites works best with a large bowl, you get a long rapid stroke. Whip the whites up hard, almost hard enough for a meringue . Then fold into the beaten egg/milk/sugar mixture gently.
posted by sammyo at 5:23 AM on January 6, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by sammyo at 5:23 AM on January 6, 2015 [1 favorite]
WAFFLES AREN'T PANCAKES.
posted by shmegegge at 5:24 AM on January 6, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by shmegegge at 5:24 AM on January 6, 2015 [1 favorite]
As long as there is a post or comment from flapjax at midnite, pancakes will always be prominent on the blue...
posted by Nanukthedog at 5:35 AM on January 6, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by Nanukthedog at 5:35 AM on January 6, 2015 [2 favorites]
All I can think of when I hear "pancakes". For two years now.
posted by Mister Moofoo at 6:20 AM on January 6, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Mister Moofoo at 6:20 AM on January 6, 2015 [1 favorite]
Who was it who made the epic comment about weed-infused pancakes, where the weed made him hungry again so he ate more weed-infused pancakes, until he spent three days completely fucking high on pancakes?
Because that's what I think of every time I think of pancakes.
Pancakes have mostly vanished from our house, thanks to the husband's allergies, and the GF kind are just terrible. Every now and then the boy and I go out for pancakes without him as a special treat. But we feel a little guilty about it. Not eating pancakes very often has taught me that there are a lot of terrible restaurant pancakes out there, though. Rubbery flavorless disks with no real maple syrup in sight. Should be a crime.
posted by emjaybee at 6:50 AM on January 6, 2015 [2 favorites]
Because that's what I think of every time I think of pancakes.
Pancakes have mostly vanished from our house, thanks to the husband's allergies, and the GF kind are just terrible. Every now and then the boy and I go out for pancakes without him as a special treat. But we feel a little guilty about it. Not eating pancakes very often has taught me that there are a lot of terrible restaurant pancakes out there, though. Rubbery flavorless disks with no real maple syrup in sight. Should be a crime.
posted by emjaybee at 6:50 AM on January 6, 2015 [2 favorites]
Don't forget the crushing disappointment of Mickey Mouse Pancakes.
posted by FatherDagon at 6:52 AM on January 6, 2015
posted by FatherDagon at 6:52 AM on January 6, 2015
Not last night, but the night before,
Three old tom cats come to the door,
One with a trumpet, one with a drum,
And one with a pancake stuck on 'is bum.
I wonder if this ancient verse has some Achewood connection?
posted by Segundus at 7:08 AM on January 6, 2015
Three old tom cats come to the door,
One with a trumpet, one with a drum,
And one with a pancake stuck on 'is bum.
I wonder if this ancient verse has some Achewood connection?
posted by Segundus at 7:08 AM on January 6, 2015
Hello Kitty pancakes.
There also used to be a Hello Kitty pancake mix which was a box of regular pancake mix with some edible Hello Kitty decals, which you were supposed to put on the cooked pancakes. I tried it out of curiosity and never quite got the Hello Kitty face to attach right, so it was just a pancake with some bunched up brown squiggle on one end.
posted by needled at 7:18 AM on January 6, 2015 [2 favorites]
There also used to be a Hello Kitty pancake mix which was a box of regular pancake mix with some edible Hello Kitty decals, which you were supposed to put on the cooked pancakes. I tried it out of curiosity and never quite got the Hello Kitty face to attach right, so it was just a pancake with some bunched up brown squiggle on one end.
posted by needled at 7:18 AM on January 6, 2015 [2 favorites]
Is it the same batter in each jar.
How do they create the different tones of color?
posted by Flood at 7:23 AM on January 6, 2015
How do they create the different tones of color?
posted by Flood at 7:23 AM on January 6, 2015
For the benefit of British and Commonwealth readers: the 'flapjax' in flapjax's username refers to an American version of the drop scone or Scotch pancake, not the flapjacks we all know and tolerate, made of oats and golden syrup.
HRH Queen Elizabeth II's recipe for drop scones/Scotch pancakes/'flapjacks' is, of course, available in the National Archives. The Queen made a batch for Dwight Eisenhower at Balmoral in 1959, and sent him a letter containing the recipe the following year.
posted by jack_mo at 7:33 AM on January 6, 2015 [4 favorites]
HRH Queen Elizabeth II's recipe for drop scones/Scotch pancakes/'flapjacks' is, of course, available in the National Archives. The Queen made a batch for Dwight Eisenhower at Balmoral in 1959, and sent him a letter containing the recipe the following year.
posted by jack_mo at 7:33 AM on January 6, 2015 [4 favorites]
> How do they create the different tones of color?
In a different video, I saw him adding hot cocoa mix in varying quantities to different bottles to make the different shades.
posted by davelog at 7:39 AM on January 6, 2015
In a different video, I saw him adding hot cocoa mix in varying quantities to different bottles to make the different shades.
posted by davelog at 7:39 AM on January 6, 2015
there are a lot of terrible restaurant pancakes out there, though. Rubbery flavorless disks with no real maple syrup in sight. Should be a crime.
Indeed, it is a salt-filled pancake laid upon the body politic of a great nation.
Bitter to taste, bitter to wear, bitter to hold, brother.
posted by Herodios at 7:45 AM on January 6, 2015 [4 favorites]
Indeed, it is a salt-filled pancake laid upon the body politic of a great nation.
Bitter to taste, bitter to wear, bitter to hold, brother.
posted by Herodios at 7:45 AM on January 6, 2015 [4 favorites]
I'm new here, and am V V EXCITED that I seem to have arrived at the rebirth on the pancake. Bring on the griddles!
posted by holborne at 7:49 AM on January 6, 2015
posted by holborne at 7:49 AM on January 6, 2015
Rather than subject myself to the horrors of "maple" flavoured corn syrup I now put only sour cream on pancakes/waffles/french toast and it is the best thing in the entire universe.
posted by poffin boffin at 7:52 AM on January 6, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by poffin boffin at 7:52 AM on January 6, 2015 [1 favorite]
And I've been here all this time thinking the Texas-shaped waffles at the hotel breakfast buffets along I-10 were pretty cool.
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 7:54 AM on January 6, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 7:54 AM on January 6, 2015 [1 favorite]
emjaybee, I think you want the day of the pancakes by loquacious.
posted by fings at 8:04 AM on January 6, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by fings at 8:04 AM on January 6, 2015 [3 favorites]
WAFFLES AREN'T PANCAKES
Eggs ain't hen-flakes,
And Mona Lisa was a man . . .
posted by Herodios at 8:09 AM on January 6, 2015
Eggs ain't hen-flakes,
And Mona Lisa was a man . . .
posted by Herodios at 8:09 AM on January 6, 2015
YES fings, and I was amazed that I had not already favored it, so I remedied that. Thanks for your diligent research.
posted by emjaybee at 8:36 AM on January 6, 2015
posted by emjaybee at 8:36 AM on January 6, 2015
Rather than subject myself to the horrors of "maple" flavoured corn syrup I now put only sour cream on pancakes/waffles/french toast and it is the best thing in the entire universe.
Please let me send you some actual real maple syrup from The Colonies so this madness can end. Sour cream! The children weep.
posted by cooker girl at 8:37 AM on January 6, 2015 [3 favorites]
Please let me send you some actual real maple syrup from The Colonies so this madness can end. Sour cream! The children weep.
posted by cooker girl at 8:37 AM on January 6, 2015 [3 favorites]
Rather than subject myself to the horrors of "maple" flavoured corn syrup I now put only sour cream on pancakes/waffles/french toast and it is the best thing in the entire universe.
It is a rare event at my house when there isn't at least a day's supply of Grade B honest-to-jayzus maple syrup in the fridge. Then again, I live in New England.
posted by Sheydem-tants at 8:51 AM on January 6, 2015 [2 favorites]
It is a rare event at my house when there isn't at least a day's supply of Grade B honest-to-jayzus maple syrup in the fridge. Then again, I live in New England.
posted by Sheydem-tants at 8:51 AM on January 6, 2015 [2 favorites]
The only pancake-related thing I have to offer today is that there's a guy in St. Louis called Dr. Dan the Pancake Man who makes some pretty swell pancake art, mostly caricatures of celebrities, but sometimes other things too.
You can see some of his work here. (Sorry for the Facebook link, but his page there is the best collection of photos that I could find.)
posted by Nat "King" Cole Porter Wagoner at 8:55 AM on January 6, 2015
You can see some of his work here. (Sorry for the Facebook link, but his page there is the best collection of photos that I could find.)
posted by Nat "King" Cole Porter Wagoner at 8:55 AM on January 6, 2015
The Queen's recipe has a 2/1 flour to milk ratio which is going make a very thick batter. Not so good for pancake art.
posted by Lazlo Hollyfeld at 9:10 AM on January 6, 2015
posted by Lazlo Hollyfeld at 9:10 AM on January 6, 2015
I have a growler of grade b from dragonfly sugarworks at home, but it's not like I carry it with me when I go out to brunch. Also sour cream is the single finest thing you can do with dairy and I weep for you sad unbelievers.
posted by poffin boffin at 9:16 AM on January 6, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by poffin boffin at 9:16 AM on January 6, 2015 [1 favorite]
i mean really have you people never heard of blinis
posted by poffin boffin at 9:17 AM on January 6, 2015
posted by poffin boffin at 9:17 AM on January 6, 2015
Over Christmas Break we took the kids to IHOP for the first time ever. Our oldest was clearly transfixed; the boys were just over-fed; and The Princess remains a little skeptical.
Me, I was just amazed at a $62 bill for six people.
posted by wenestvedt at 9:25 AM on January 6, 2015
Me, I was just amazed at a $62 bill for six people.
posted by wenestvedt at 9:25 AM on January 6, 2015
Oh, man, that takes me back. My Mom, The Greatest Cook on Earth, used to do us a huge pancake breakfast at least one Saturday morning a month. In addition to plain round ones for her, Dad, and the dog*, she'd make all kinds of shaped and decorated ones for us kids. She did the whole squeeze-bottle thing like in the Beatles link above, and used raisins and multicolored chocolate chips for details. Animals, clown faces, letters, flowers - you name it.
Then we'd have our choice of maple syrup, Karo syrup, cinnamon sugar, or several different kinds of homemade preserves. Of course, family tradition dictated that you had to (gently) slap your neighbor's face with a pancake before you put your toppings on and got to work. I have no idea how or why that got started, but there you go.
No wonder it took so long for that baby fat to come off.
* One of King the Chocolate Lab's favorite hobbies was catching pancakes in midair like Frisbees. Once he got tired of that, he'd want a rolled-up pancake to carry around in his mouth like a cigar.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 9:42 AM on January 6, 2015 [3 favorites]
Then we'd have our choice of maple syrup, Karo syrup, cinnamon sugar, or several different kinds of homemade preserves. Of course, family tradition dictated that you had to (gently) slap your neighbor's face with a pancake before you put your toppings on and got to work. I have no idea how or why that got started, but there you go.
No wonder it took so long for that baby fat to come off.
* One of King the Chocolate Lab's favorite hobbies was catching pancakes in midair like Frisbees. Once he got tired of that, he'd want a rolled-up pancake to carry around in his mouth like a cigar.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 9:42 AM on January 6, 2015 [3 favorites]
This reminds me of a ripped up journal I found in the street in Oakland. Over several hours we assembled a couple of pages and the phrase that stood out and was much quoted over the years was one from the writers time at a boys halfway house. "Today we had pancakes for breakfast, I fucked that shit up and came back for seconds!"
posted by boilermonster at 9:44 AM on January 6, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by boilermonster at 9:44 AM on January 6, 2015 [2 favorites]
The Adventure Time song still has to compete with this one for me: GiR, it's time for pancakes!
posted by deludingmyself at 9:50 AM on January 6, 2015
posted by deludingmyself at 9:50 AM on January 6, 2015
The Queen made a batch for Dwight Eisenhower at Balmoral in 1959
For some reason I really, really cannot imagine the Queen making her own pancakes.
posted by deludingmyself at 9:55 AM on January 6, 2015
For some reason I really, really cannot imagine the Queen making her own pancakes.
posted by deludingmyself at 9:55 AM on January 6, 2015
(And yet I am now imagining John Oliver doing his best HRH impression singing the bacon pancakes song. Helloooooo!)
posted by deludingmyself at 9:57 AM on January 6, 2015
posted by deludingmyself at 9:57 AM on January 6, 2015
They're not flat pancakes though, they're these chewy oaty bar things with treacle.
posted by poffin boffin at 10:05 AM on January 6, 2015
posted by poffin boffin at 10:05 AM on January 6, 2015
Book of Pancakes 15.3:
And the lord of pancakes spoke: thou shalt not pour maple syrup on your pancakes for it is a false god and an abomination. Look to the tribe of the Franks and like them sprinkle thy pancakes with grains of sugar instead and drizzle the juice of a lemon upon it. In doing so you shall remember that the lives of mortals are made from sweet and sour moments and one can not exist without the other.
And when the snows begin to fall thou shalt warm your shivering hearts by making pancakes with bacon to comfort you in the darkness of winter.
And weep not when your pancakes fail and all is dark. Why do you cast away the torn cakes and let your dogs feed upon them? Render these least among your cakes unto caesar and rejoice in the sweet blessing that is miracle of Emperor's Trifle.
Thus spake the lord of pancakes and it was good.
posted by Hairy Lobster at 10:07 AM on January 6, 2015 [4 favorites]
And the lord of pancakes spoke: thou shalt not pour maple syrup on your pancakes for it is a false god and an abomination. Look to the tribe of the Franks and like them sprinkle thy pancakes with grains of sugar instead and drizzle the juice of a lemon upon it. In doing so you shall remember that the lives of mortals are made from sweet and sour moments and one can not exist without the other.
And when the snows begin to fall thou shalt warm your shivering hearts by making pancakes with bacon to comfort you in the darkness of winter.
And weep not when your pancakes fail and all is dark. Why do you cast away the torn cakes and let your dogs feed upon them? Render these least among your cakes unto caesar and rejoice in the sweet blessing that is miracle of Emperor's Trifle.
Thus spake the lord of pancakes and it was good.
posted by Hairy Lobster at 10:07 AM on January 6, 2015 [4 favorites]
HRM actually (H is for everyone other than the Boss). Apparently Philip likes to barbecue.
With my ex, every weekend was either pancakes or French toast. (He once asked for both. No.) His primary criteria were size and number--shape? Totally unimportant. I did make him happy face ones once though.
Look to the tribe of the Franks and like them sprinkle thy pancakes with grains of sugar instead and drizzle the juice of a lemon upon it.
That's yummy and all but really only works with crepes; big fluffy North American pancakes need a little more garnishing than that. poffin boffin is spot on with the sour cream, but BETTER is sour cream and maple syrup, while BEST is sour cream and maple syrup with butter melted into it and maybe a dash of dark rum.
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 10:10 AM on January 6, 2015 [3 favorites]
With my ex, every weekend was either pancakes or French toast. (He once asked for both. No.) His primary criteria were size and number--shape? Totally unimportant. I did make him happy face ones once though.
Look to the tribe of the Franks and like them sprinkle thy pancakes with grains of sugar instead and drizzle the juice of a lemon upon it.
That's yummy and all but really only works with crepes; big fluffy North American pancakes need a little more garnishing than that. poffin boffin is spot on with the sour cream, but BETTER is sour cream and maple syrup, while BEST is sour cream and maple syrup with butter melted into it and maybe a dash of dark rum.
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 10:10 AM on January 6, 2015 [3 favorites]
Pancakes are overrated. No cakes should be entirely dependent on dumping butter and syrup on them. Cake should taste good even without icing, but pancakes? The traditional pancake is pretty dry and boring without the syrup. I've only had pancakes once in the last 20 years that were truly great, and frankly it's not something I'm going to be able to eat often if I want to last another 20. A stack of 3 pancakes, and between each layer was bbq pulled pork with barbecue sauce, then they put syrop over the top layer. Man that was tasty.
posted by Hoopo at 10:47 AM on January 6, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Hoopo at 10:47 AM on January 6, 2015 [1 favorite]
HRM actually (H is for everyone other than the Boss).
HM, see "HMS". "Royal" is a title granted by the sovereign. It descends from Old French, and means "Of/From/Belonging to the king (roi)"
posted by eriko at 10:54 AM on January 6, 2015
HM, see "HMS". "Royal" is a title granted by the sovereign. It descends from Old French, and means "Of/From/Belonging to the king (roi)"
posted by eriko at 10:54 AM on January 6, 2015
Yeh sorry, typed too quickly.
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 11:08 AM on January 6, 2015
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 11:08 AM on January 6, 2015
If you want pancakes that are super delicious and don't need any butter or syrup, try using heavy cream instead of milk. You may need to add a bit of milk (or water) to thin them out a bit.
I discovered this one year when I had a half pint of heavy cream leftover in the fridge, and wanted to use it up. I now do this once a year as a Christmastime treat.
posted by fings at 11:33 AM on January 6, 2015
I discovered this one year when I had a half pint of heavy cream leftover in the fridge, and wanted to use it up. I now do this once a year as a Christmastime treat.
posted by fings at 11:33 AM on January 6, 2015
I've been waiting for a waffle post on the blue.
Just don't post about blue waffles.
posted by sparklemotion at 11:39 AM on January 6, 2015
Just don't post about blue waffles.
posted by sparklemotion at 11:39 AM on January 6, 2015
I have a growler of grade b from dragonfly sugarworks at home, but it's not like I carry it with me when I go out to brunch.
Your lack of dedication disturbs me.
Also sour cream is the single finest thing you can do with dairy and I weep for you sad unbelievers.
Agreed.
posted by cooker girl at 11:39 AM on January 6, 2015 [1 favorite]
Your lack of dedication disturbs me.
Also sour cream is the single finest thing you can do with dairy and I weep for you sad unbelievers.
Agreed.
posted by cooker girl at 11:39 AM on January 6, 2015 [1 favorite]
Your lack of dedication disturbs me.
For real. Hip flask + maple syrup.
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 12:03 PM on January 6, 2015 [2 favorites]
For real. Hip flask + maple syrup.
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 12:03 PM on January 6, 2015 [2 favorites]
(or Sortilege if you're having one of those brunches)
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 12:03 PM on January 6, 2015
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 12:03 PM on January 6, 2015
Do people still put pancakes on bunnies?
posted by chaz at 2:39 PM on January 6, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by chaz at 2:39 PM on January 6, 2015 [1 favorite]
My Mom's pancakes are delicious with nothing on them. Or even just a little butter, like you'd put on bread.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 4:01 PM on January 6, 2015
posted by The Underpants Monster at 4:01 PM on January 6, 2015
I will admit to having eaten peanut-butter-and-jelly pancakes. I was out of bread, see, and wanted to eat a PBJ. Well, the first time I did it I was out of bread.
posted by fings at 7:25 PM on January 6, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by fings at 7:25 PM on January 6, 2015 [1 favorite]
Awesome. If I stick around, hopped beer will come back into style again.
posted by salishsea at 8:13 PM on January 6, 2015
posted by salishsea at 8:13 PM on January 6, 2015
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