Bachelor Recipe #4

Pancakes

Ok, look -- This recipe isn't mine. The "inspiration" came from a book I had given to me one Christmas. I've added a couple new ingredients and changed the method slightly but I'm still a crook I guess - as long as there's no exchange of money I'll be ok - right? - sue me. This method makes 3 six inchers.

• 1/2 cup flour
• 1/4 cup oatmeal, (the quick cooking stuff - not instant)
• 1 & 1/2 teaspoon Baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt

• 1 Tablespoon melted butter or oil
• 1 egg yolk
• 3/4 cup milk mixed with 1 teaspoon vinegar or for the true gourmets among you, not so much milk and maybe 1/4 cup apple sauce. or no milk, no vinegar and 3/4 cup of plain yogourt.

• the egg white from that egg yolk

You can really beat the liquid ingredients if you want with a hand mixer, a wire whisk or a clean 9 iron.
pour the liquid ingredients and the whipped egg white into the dry. Stir just enough to make it all wet.
To cook:
Take a non-stick frying pan, or anything you've got, (the snobby gourmets and ice fishermen among you can haul out their cast iron frying pans with the beautiful patina that comes from years of seasoning)
Drop a tablespoon of oil or so on the frying pan and bring it up to just above medium heat. Let the pan heat up
Spoon out some batter onto the pan and -- well - fry a pancake. (Go do some research at the Elmira Maple Syrup Festival if you can't continue from here).

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