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56 ~ Wednesday. February 6, 1991 - North Shore News

If it’s Shrove Tuesday, these must be pancakes

SHROVE TUESDAY, falling on Feb. 12 this year, offers
not only a great opportunity to partake in a bit of 500-
year-old history, but a good excuse to have pancakes for

dinner as well.

Pancake or Shrove Tuesday
originated with the festivities of
Roman Catholics after they had
repented their sins and been
**shroved.’’

Cooks used up fats and other
luxuries as part of a merry cele-
bratien the day before Ash Wed-
nesday, the beginning of Lent.
Strict fasting followed for the next
40 days.

Pancake recipes haven't chang-
ed much over the centuries. The
most common are still simple
quickbreads, now leavened by
baking powder or baking soda.
They’re mixed quickly by hand
and are almost as fast to make
from scratch as they are from a
mix.

Start by combining the dry in-
gredients. You can substitute
coarse grains for part of the all-
purpose fiour. Whole wheat flour,
cornmeal, wheat germ, and
oatmeal are flavorsome and
healthy additions that make a
hearty pancake.

Then mix together the liquids —
eggs, milk, melted margarine —

Purchase
best buys

From page $5

1 tin crabmeat (flat), drained and
Picked over
v2 cup grated cheddar cheese
2 eggs
Ya cups ceffee cream (or milk)
salt and pepper
gsated Parmesan cheese
Steam or microwave the broc-
coli until just crisp-tender. Drain
very well. Layer on the bottom of
pre-baked pie shell. Sprinkle crab
en top and then the cheddar. Beat
eggs with cream and pour over.
Season and dust with Parmesan.
Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until a
silver knife inserted in the center
comes ou! clean. Let sit five
minutes before cutting. 1 tike
Caesar Salad with this.

BEST BUYS: In general, look for
pork and apples (and apple pro-
ducts). For large family purchases,
the coupon offer, $30 off a $200
order at Superstore (Wed. News)
is worth a tip. I try to keep my
snopping on the North Shore.
SUPER VALU: Quarter perk
loin, $2.28 lb.; beef sausage, $1.98
Ib.; ling cod, $1.89 Ib.; MJB cof-
fee, $1.99; Campbell’s tomato
soup, 49¢; Mac apples, 29¢ Ib.
SAFEWAY: Clip butter coupen
— 99¢ with $25 order; ham, ready
to eat, shank, $1.29 (excellent
buy!); Fletcher's bacon, $1.99;
lean ground beef, $1.88 ib. 10#
approx.; Empress margarine, 34,
$1.99; head lettuce, 38¢ ea.
STONG'S: Chicken legs, BACK
ATTACHED, 98¢ ‘\b.; veal
shoulder coasts, $1.98 Ib.; Para-
mount pink salmon, flats, $1.29;
zucchini, 49¢ tb.

SAVE ON FOODS: (Watch for
Hmits on a lot of this stuff!) Chubd
ground beef, i Ib., 49¢; Fletcher's
bacon, $1.97; pork chops, family
pack, $1.97 fb.; FERST CHOICE
BREF COUPON *** $1.50 off —
grab it; fresh peaches, 68¢ Ib.;
apples: nearly all varieties, range
from 28¢-48¢ Ib.

BUY LOW: Turkeys: $1.17 Ib.;
pork steak, $1.87 but the boneless
pork roasts are a better buy at
$1.97 (cut your own steaks); cab-
bage, turnips and onions, 4#, 98¢;
broccoli, 48¢ fb.; cheddar cheese
—- 20% off.

and add them quickly to the dry
ingredients.

Sour milk or buttermilk are
often used because of their tangy
flavor. Their acid content also
reacts with baking soda to pro-
duce carbon dioxide, making the
pancakes light.

Too much stirring toughens
pancakes. Stir just until the dry
flour disappears, leaving the bat-
ter lumpy.

With such a high proportion of
liquid, there’s lots of potential! for
elastic-like gluten to develop
through stirring.

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Gluten's elasticity is important
in yeastbreads, but not wanted in
pancakes.

Pancakes for breakfast? Mix
the dry ingredients together the
night before, but don’t complete
the batter. Baking soda and bak-
ing powder lose much of their
leavening oomph once they're
moistened.

Use a heavy griddle that hoids
the heat evenly. Cast iron or alu-
minum are unbeatable. A well-
seasoned pan, used only for pan-
cakes, shouldn’t need greasing. In
fact, a good rub down with a
teaspoon of salt is insurance
against sticking.

Preheat the griddle so the pan-
cakes cook quickly. It’s sufficient-
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Watch for bubbles to appear on
the top of the pancake as leav-
ening agents work. Just betore the
bubbles break, flip the pancake.
But do this only once. Flipping
back and forth makes pancakes
heavy.

if you’re a regular pancake
eater, try a more exotic version.
Some recipes call for the
separating of the eggs and creating
a foam to do the job of leavening.
More time consuming versions use
yeast.

Served with thickened berry
topping and a dollop of yogurt,
fruit butters, applesauce or classic
maple syrup, pancakes make
Shrove Tuesday dinner a memo-
rable meal.

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