Tower of Pancakes

[davidn]

I hadn't realized that it was P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-Pancake Day (or if you're American, the decidedly less appetizing-sounding Fat Tuesday) until mid-afternoon yesterday, so I brought out the griddle again and demonstrated that there are some things that I can make in the kitchen without an actual adult's help.



I think my mobile phone can make even a picture of pancakes unappetizing. Nevertheless, this is the same recipe as last time, with more milk added so that the batter just distributed itself over a wider area.

Here's a question - do you spread your jam/butter/whatever you like on the first-cooked smooth side of the pancake, or on the underside so that it soaks into all the little holes?

Comments

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

Your phone's camera is indeed awful, those look like zombie pancakes. Judging by texture though, they look delicious!

I always put my butter on the flat side -- there are more holes on the underside, but the flat side seems more 'porous'. I might just be imagining that, though...

[davidn]

It wasn't until I looked with Colorblind Assistant that I realized that they were green!

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

Greenish-gray, if anything! Which is almost worse.

[tamakun.livejournal.com]

Maple syrup, on the smooth side for me.

I typically put too much syrup, having it run-off, and mop it up with the other side of the pancake anyhow ^^

Cellphone cameras seem to be horrible for reproducing anything decent. They do look yummy even if their colour is a bit off :D

Oh, here's a question for you - do you have the problem of "the first pancake always burns" and then the rest work out fine?

[davidn]

That's a good point - I would have thought that syrup would initially go on the... dimpled side, but no matter where you put it it's going to end up everywhere anyway. Maple syrup used not to be a pancake option for me - but since discovering it here I can say it's nice :)

Oddly I don't have that problem (as explained in a comic retexting series by stubbleupdate) with this recipe - these ones seem to be unaffected by it. In fact, the first one seems to be a little lighter, if anything, if the griddle hasn't warmed up enough. Maybe they're just naturally tough and Scottish.

[tamakun.livejournal.com]

That's a brilliant way of making a recipe for pancakes. :D

I think that my issue with the FPP may be the exact opposite of yours - I warm up the pan beforehand and don't use oil, so the pan may be too hot, and so the First Pancake absorbs too much heat too quickly, but it absorbs enough heat so that the following pancakes cook slower.