My Italian "Pancake Recipe"

[greatscott]

This is a recipe that my Italian grandmother used to make for my brothers and
sister and I when we were children. I continued the tradition by making these for my own children, and "her recipe lives on" as my middle son actually called for the directions on how to make them. :)


Pancake Ingredients:

* 355 ml (1 1/2 cups ) milk

* 355 ml (1 1/2 cups ) breadcrumbs (from leftover bread, stale is okay)

* 118.5 ml (1/2 cup ) flour

* 10 ml (2 teaspoons) baking powder

* 2.5 ml (1/2 teaspoon) salt

* 1 egg, well beaten

* 30 ml ( 2 tablespoons) honey

* 15ml ( 1 tablespoon) butter, melted

Syrup

* 250 ml (1 cup) honey

* 118.5 ml (1/2 cup ) butter (melted)

*1 lemon (juice squeezed)


Pancake directions:

1. Heat milk and pour over crumbs, and let stand for 15 minutes.

2. Sift flour, baking powder and salt, and add to crumb mixture, along with egg, honey and melted butter.

3. Beat until well blended and free lumps, and drop by tablespoons onto a well-greased griddle, allowing one side to brown before turning.

4. Re-grease griddle before every batch.

5. Serve hot.

Syrup directions:

1. Warm honey.

2. Add melted butter, mixing it in completely with the honey.

3. Slowly drizzle the lemon juice in to the syrup (mix well while drizzling) and serve on top of the pancakes.

[Relaxed]

You sure you need one lemon for your recipe? The other precise measurements made we wonder if 0.98 lemon wouldn't be better :)

This recipe sounds rather nice - do you think one could get away with stale breadcrumbs? (I'm always interested in recipes which use up the remains of Umbrian bread when it isn't any longer edible!)

I often make Panzanella, a salad made with bits of bread torn off a loaf, soaked in milk if you like, or in oil and vinegar, and then squeezed so it is not too wet. You throw these damp bread bits into a bowl with whatever you like - chopped onion, celery, cucumber, tomato, chopped lettuce, sometimes even bits of yesterday's spinach, and a pea or two, chopped french beans wouldn't come amiss - you get the idea, whatever falls to hand! About as much bread as vegetables, and it can be fairly wet or pretty dry, depending on your preferences.

A very nice cucina povera dish!

[sdoj]

I love the word drizzling it gets my digestive juices gushing


apparently it is spelt onomatopoeic - thanks to Ronald and Relaxed to helping me see the error of my ways.

[sdoj]

I recently visited the Swiss speaking part of Italy at the head of a valley that was often cut off for the whole winter. Their cucina povera was most unappetising - garlic and bread soup. There's a challenge: anyone got a delicious recipe for that?

[Anastasia]

pardon? I dont get it.

[Relaxed]

Spelling sdoj, spelling !! Words which begin with ona tend to end with nism, and you wouldn't like to be accused of being one of them now, would you :)

[sdoj]

Now I know how you made your fortune Relaxed you wrote that daft book about eating bamboo shoots that everyone got in their Christmas stockings a few years back.
That kind of attention to detail comes at a price you know.

[Anastasia]

/ ~ ia. ~`

[Relaxed]

Well, we had best recruit the Panda who was hanging about with some landrovers earlier - he can eat the bamboo shoots............

[greatscott]

Relaxed, I had to go through a lot of trouble to change things over to metric, and I'm quite a dunce when it comes to this sort of thing, lol. I think the whole reason grandma had for making the pancakes in the first place was not to waste the stale bread. Besides the stale, dried out bread will absorb the milk and break down better for mixing. Grandma made Panzanella too. Waste not, want not. ;)

sdoj, yes, I really like the word "drizzle" too.:D