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The World's Easaiest Pancakes

 Hello. C J here. I found a fun game the other day. I’m currently watching Let’s Plays of old PC games on YouTube to get ideas for level maps. That wasn’t the game I meant though. I realized I can look up what the most popular Google searches are for a specific category. I found a reliable way of looking up the most searched for Google recipes and I found that people want recipes for shepherd's pie, meatloaf, chili, chicken, pork tenderloin, more chicken and in particular pancakes. I like pancakes!

So I’m shamelessly catering to my demographic and finally giving you folks a pancake recipe. This recipe is the best one I’ve ever tried and has exactly five ingredients in it. I adapted if from a number of old cookbook recipes and websites and then tripled the sugar. They’re great. Pork tenderloin though might be a challenge. That’s a lot of meat on one of those. Pulled pork is nice but I don’t need pulled pork for eight weeks straight. Anyway, time for pancakes. The recipe makes four per batch.

Ingredients
One and One Fourth Cup Flour
Three Tablespoons Sugar
Two Teaspoons Baking Soda
One Fourth Teaspoon Salt
One Cup Milk

For the Pancakes
Mix the four dry ingredients in a bowl until combined. Add in the milk and mix into a batter.

Heat canola oil or butter in a large nonstick skillet or chicken fryer. Use a fourth cup measure that you have greased with nonstick spray to measure out four pancakes. Fry them until the undersides are golden and then flip and fry the other sides. Check for doneness by cutting into the centre of a larger one and having the knife come out clean.

This recipe, the butter version at least, is going to be in Food of the World as a card with game mechanics on it. My setting, the Legend Setting, has pancakes but they typically call them flatcakes. It’s somewhere in one of my novels. Also, you get extra points if you catch the pop culture reference in this post.

C J Mcpherson




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