I don't know, Ruth... "Melt a stick of butter."

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erininny

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I'm not normally one to clutch my pearls and gasp at excess, but this pancake recipe made me laugh. Frankly, for the number of pancakes this makes--it only uses one cup of flour--the butter amount seems rather high, even if they are, as Reichl notes, special-occasion pancakes.

The last sentence of the piece is also entertaining: "You want the memory to linger with your family as they move through their day." Well, sure, provided they can still move after eating that...

It just seems to follow awfully close on the heels of last week's high-fat, highwire scandal. The Deen is dead! Long live the Deen!

http://www.gilttaste.com/stories/4185-how-to-make-a-better-pancake

 
I make pancakes from memory and I only use approximately one tablespoon of fat per...

... one-and-one-quarter cup of flour.

No one has ever complained they weren't rich enough.

Now, my WAFFLE recipe is another story entirely!

Michael

 
It seems to be IN ADDITION to the butter in the pan and later melted onto the cakes.

That's way too much, even for me. I use a few tablespoons in that amount of batter, a little oil on the pan, and then more melted butter for serving, and that is only a few decadent times a year.

 
A tablespoon of fat in the batter (as I said) and a spritz of oil in the...

...non-stick pan. My family doesn't butter the cakes at the table. Not militant about it... we've just never done that so no one misses it.

My younger son made varsity basketball in his freshman year. He takes after my mom and has a really high metabolism. We fight to keep weight on him!

I've been getting up early in the a.m. since the season began back around the first of November to make big, hot breakfasts for him, his brother and my lovely wifey. It's the only way to keep him healthy!

So, it's pancakes practically every day...SANS the stick of butter. He could probably use it, but the rest of them would likely croak.

Michael

 
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