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Clare Briggs
Clare Briggs is a famous cartoonist who lived from 1875 to 1930. Poems by Wilbur Nesbitt.
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Peter Parker’s Aunt May’s wheat cakes were buckwheat; at some point Marvel published the recipe. Wheat cakes have since become a running joke for why Frank Cho’s female super heroes are overly buxom.Report
May Parker’s Famous Wheatcakes
Mix together:
– 1 cup buckwheat flour
– 1 cup sifted whole wheat flour
– 2 teaspoons double-acting baking powder
– 1 teaspoon baking soda
– 1 teaspoon salt
In a separate bowl, mix 2 cups buttermilk and 2 teaspoons molasses, then set aside.
Add to the four mix:
– 2 beaten eggs
– 1/4 cup melted butter
– the buttermilk/molasses mixture
Whip 2 egg whites until stiff (but not dry!), then fold them into the batter gently until blended. Don’t overmix!
Cook on a greased hot griddle or frying pan, until small bubbles appear on top. Then turn pancakes over, and cook until bottom is lightly browned. Serve hot, with butter and maple syrup.Report
Her husband was more famous for rice.Report
That is a lot more eggs and fair bit more sweetener than the pancakes I made this morning. (But about half as much baking powder, at the ratio of flour & milk I was using)Report
Yeah, I’m looking at that buttermilk/molasses and thinking “that can’t work… would that work? That wouldn’t work… Would that work?”
I mean, black strap molasses is only barely sweet and there is a *LOT* of other stuff going on in the flavors there. That might work.Report
Another thing to note is that the ‘greased pan’ for both Aunt May and Mama Briggs probably used pure animal lard. (I wouldn’t be surprised if Mama Briggs used lard as a substitute for or in conjunction with the butter in her own batter recipe)Report
No trays of bacon in either drawing so… yeah. Snow-cap.
Get four pounds of it at Wally World for $6.
Huh. That’s a steal.Report
I cook my pancakes on a non-stick griddle. No doubt changes the flavor a bit.Report
it’d work, esp with only two tablespoons of molasses. I’ve done a similar cheat (bc gluten free) with real maple syrup. not a lot, but enough to sort of level out the odd nuttiness of gf flour.
but dang these are gonna be some very dense and heavy pancakes, whipped egg whites or not. i got sleepy just reading the recipe.Report
And the whipped egg whites! I’m a busy man! Ain’t nobody got time for folding at breakfast!Report
When I was 13 or 14, with the standard adolescent boy’s appetite*, and we would visit my grandparents Cain, at least once each trip I would be instructed to go across the street and have dinner at the Dutchman’s house. He was indeed from Holland and had wound up in south-central Iowa during the tail end of the coal-mining years there. The Dutchman’s wife never said anything to me, but told my grandmother, “Ach, it’s so gut to feed someone with an appetite!”
* The traditional description is that an adolescent boy will eat anything that’s not moving. I was closer to “if it’s moving slowly enough, it’s fair game.”Report