\r\nMini Pancakes\r\na 1 cup flour\r\nb 4 T sugar\r\nc 1 t salt\r\nd 1 cup hot water\r\ne 3 eggs\r\nf 4 T veg oil\r\ng butter\r\nh pod sugar\r\n#1 a + b + c + d stir well + f + e stir\r\nour batter on pan and cook when\r\ndone put g and h on and eat\r\n# melt g\r\n<\/pre>\nAlready thinking like an engineer, wasn’t he? You can tell from the state of the paper that this was a much-loved recipe.<\/p>\n
The poffertjes we ate in Einhoven were puffier; Nate’s recipe makes something more like a small crepe. There was nothing else to do but make them both and do a taste test! <\/p>\n
After reading a bunch of “traditional poffertje recipes” online, I settled on something like this composite version:<\/p>\n
\r\n1 c flour\r\n1 egg\r\n1 tsp sugar\r\n1\/4 tsp salt\r\n1\/4 tsp vanilla\r\n1\/2 c + 2tbl milk, warm\r\n1\/2 tsp instant yeast\r\n1\/2 tbl butter\/oil\r\n\r\nMix yeast, sugar, warm milk.\r\nIn separate bowl mix eggs, salt, vanilla.\r\nMix in flour.\r\nMix in milk.\r\n<\/pre>\nI mixed up a batch of each. Nate’s batter is thinner; the pofferje batter is thick and bubbly. Notice the necessary accompaniments: powdered sugar, melted butter, berries.<\/p>\n
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The difference persisted through the cooking.<\/p>\n
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The final product: thin, sweet, eggy mini-pancakes from Nate’s recipe, and puffy yeasty ones from the online recipe. We ate them with butter and powdered sugar, or berries. Or all of the above.<\/p>\n
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Both were delicious. I’m likely to make either or both of them again, though probably mostly for special occasions since it takes a lot of time to make the cute little pancakes. In the Netherlands, there’s a special poffertje pan with wells to make the puffy round cakes in, but I’m doing them freehand. <\/p>\n
Happy birthday Nate! (Monday, actually, but I’m behind on blogging. Of course.) Come visit and I’ll make you pancakes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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