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Skriven 2007-02-22 21:34:30 av Michael Harper (16015.babylon5)
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Ärende: Re: Interesting story to follow for B5 fans
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"lizardgirl" <gabiks@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>
> LOL, it's not *you* i'm looking cross eyed at, honest.  its
> those....pancake thingys your talking about.
>
> (although i must confess that my kids perfer a 'creamier' batter and i
> have found myself whipping a perfectly good lumpy batter into a puree
> many a time.  while i love the happy smiles this act of sacriledge
> gets me, i still hate myself for it.  i can feel my oma rolling her
> eyes somewhere in the great beyond.)
>

My mom really didn't teach me how to do them. I watched her, and one day
when she was at work I got hungry. I hauled out what we had, which was
potato flakes, ran up a stiff batch of mash, added the other ingredients
that I thought should go in them, put a little oil in the skillet and
started running up latkes. I made them a little thick so they wouldn't come
apart, and treated them just like pancakes except I didn't syrup the poor
things. Mostly crispy on the outside, creamy on the inside. Put them on
paper towels to blot up the excess oil, then transferred them to a plate. I
ate them straight out of the plate, no goo on them to ruin the taste.

Since that first batch some twenty-five years ago, I've experimented. I've
done them with ranch dressing for flavor, shredded cheese, onion, herbs,
different things for every batch. I'm following the Ludwig Meyer
experimental method; never make them exactly the same way twice.

> > 1951 General Motors electric stove. Built like a tank. Perfect
condition.
> > Lovely.
> >
>
> sounds like fun.  happy cooking :^)
>
It's delightful. All the burners work, the oven doesn't catch fire. I've
baked biscuits two days straight now. I may do them again tomorrow, only
scratch this time. I bought a bag of those damnable frozen homestyle
biscuits, and I swear I'll never do it again. I make far better biscuits
than those, and I don't have a real recipe. I dump in what looks like enough
flour, add two sticks of oleo, mash it all up, add what looks like enough
milk, stick a fork in it and beat until it's what looks like the right
consistency, scrape it out of the bowl onto a piece of floured foil. dust
it, roll it, fold it, dust it, roll it, lather, rinse, repeat, get a glass
and cut them out, lay them on my handy dandy pizza pan, wad the scraps up
and roll them out again, cut, slap, roll, until there's not enough to bother
with. I wad that up, pat it out, stick it on the pan. 450 for about fifteen
or twenty minutes or until the look done.

My trial-and-error biscuits. Enjoy.

Mike
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