Pancake recipe, a quick and easy dessert to make!

Information

A pancake is a flat cake, often thin and round, prepared from a starch-based batter that may contain eggs, milk and butter and cooked on a hot surface such as a griddle or frying pan, often frying with oil or butter. It is a type of batter bread. Archaeological evidence suggests that pancakes were probably eaten in prehistoric societies.

The pancake's shape and structure varies worldwide. In the United Kingdom, pancakes are often unleavened and resemble a crêpe. In North America, a leavening agent is used (typically baking powder) creating a thick fluffy pancake. A crêpe is a thin Breton pancake of French origin cooked on one or both sides in a special pan or crepe maker to achieve a lacelike network of fine bubbles. A well-known variation originating from southeast Europe is a palačinke, a thin moist pancake fried on both sides and filled with jam, cream cheese, chocolate, or ground walnuts, but many other fillings—sweet or savoury—can also be used.

Pancakes, ideal for breakfast, but not only. I'm a quick dessert, the joy of the little ones, because they don't have to wait too long.

These pancakes can be served with a variety of creams or jams, with honey or various syrups. I think everyone likes them, I love them.

I often make them for the family and always double the portion, even so there is nothing left on the plate.

Ingredient

• 2 eggs
• 160ml milk
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 25 g sugar
• 1 sachet of vanilla sugar
• 130g flour
• a pinch of salt
• vanilla
• honey
• nut
• Lemon
• cherries
• chocolate flakes

Preparation

It is a fairly simple recipe that is prepared quickly and without too much effort.

1. Separate the egg whites from the yolks. We will put the yolks and vanilla in a bowl in which we have already put the milk.
2. We will mix the flour with the sugar, vanilla sugar, baking powder and salt. Put all these dry ingredients over the mixture of yolks and milk and mix until smooth.
3. Do not insist too much, even if there are a few small lumps left, they will disappear.
4. In order for the American pancakes to come out fluffy, I mix the 2 egg whites that I separated from the yolks until they become a hard foam.
5. We put the egg white foam over the mixture obtained earlier and we mix with wide movements, until it is incorporated in it.
6. We put a frying pan on low heat, it would be ideal if we had a non-stick because we will not need to use oil.
7. Take a small Polish dough from the bowl, put it in the middle of the pan and let the pancake brown, then turn it on the other side.
8. The fire must be small, if it is too strong the pancakes will remain raw in the middle.
9. When we put the dough in the pan, we don't need to spread it, it will take shape.
10. After we have finished baking all the pancakes, we put them on the plate and decorate them as we like each one.
11. You can use honey, maple syrup, various toppings, nuts, lemons, chocolate, jam, fruit… My favorites are American pancakes served with strawberry jam and acacia jam.
12. These fluffy American pancakes are delicious and quick to prepare. I challenge you to try the recipe too.

History

The Ancient Greeks made pancakes called τηγανίτης (tēganitēs), ταγηνίτης (tagēnitēs) or ταγηνίας (tagēnias), all words deriving from τάγηνον (tagēnon), "frying pan". The earliest attested references to tagenias are in the works of the 5th-century BC poets Cratinus and Magnes. Tagenites were made with wheat flour, olive oil, honey, and curdled milk, and were served for breakfast. Another kind of pancake was σταιτίτης (staititēs), from σταίτινος (staitinos), "of flour or dough of spelt", derived from σταῖς (stais), "flour of spelt". Athenaeus mentions, in his Deipnosophistae, staititas topped with honey, sesame, and cheese. The Middle English word pancake appears in English in the 15th century.

The Ancient Romans called their fried concoctions alia dulcia, Latin for "other sweets". These were much different from what are known as pancakes today.