My missus makes very very nice pancakes…and so do my family members who all got the recipe from her and now, Melissa has inherited the ability to do the same as well. She made some earlier and we gave a few pieces to her grandparents and the grandpa loved it so much so by special request, she made some more…
I never bothered to watch, much less learn how to make them myself – I just ate! Hehehehehe!!!! However, the other day, I made it a point to see how it was done.
First, whip the butter with the sugar…
– a quarter can or half a block of butter and 3 tablespoons of sugar. Use Golden Churn, no less, or any other brand that you like, not the much cheaper sapuan istemewa dengan lemak susu and between the two, I find the canned ones a lot nicer than those frozen hard ones sold in bricks.
Next, add 3 eggs…
…and whip it altogether well before adding 2 cups of flour…
You may do it one cup at a time while mixing the evaporated milk & water – three-quarter cup of the milk and one-quarter water bit by bit while whisking/whipping continuously till the batter is smooth…
…and of the right consistency. It should be something like cake batter – not too watery…and not too thick either. If it is too thick, you may add a bit more of the milk-butter combination.
Now, here’s the secret! Add 3 teaspoons of ENO…
…to the batter. Probably, its effervescent effect would give the pancakes the very much desired fluffiness, I wouldn’t know…but this seems to be the case.
Heat up a pan and grease it lightly with butter and then spoon the batter onto the pan…
…and let it cook on low neat till golden in colour – you will have to flip the pieces over to get that on both sides…
Unfortunately, because of the irregular amount of batter in each scoop, the pancakes came in varying shapes and sizes. Perhaps, I should go and get one of those mini non-stick pans specially for pancakes or maybe the small ones for eggs but unless one has a few of those, one would need to cook them one by one and that may be rather tedious and time-consuming.
Ah well! I guess it does not really matter as this is solely for one’s own home consumption and it will all end up in the same place, anyway so what matters most is that all the pancakes are very soft and fluffy…
…and absolutely yummy…even on its own, without the syrup or honey or anything.
Want some? Nom…nom…nom!!! LOL!!!
...STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS! 