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rabidsamfanHow to make pancakes.
1. Forget to start the sourdough the night before.
2. Decide that you don't care, because it's a snowday and you can eat them later anyway, so mix up some flour and milk and add starter, pull out the reserve for more starter and wait for it to "proof" (which means get a bunch of bubbles to show that the yeastiebeasties are alive and burping.)
3. Keep looking at it while the bacon is in the oven, hoping.
4. Take out the finished bacon and turn off the oven, leaving the door open so the heat might rise and wake up the yeastiebeasties.
5. Give up and put bowl and tupperwares of yeastiebeastiemix into cooler oven and close door.
6. Forget you did that.
7. Remember belatedly, open oven and find out that there has been much lovely yeastiebeastie eructation going on, hooray!
8. Seal the starter tupperware and put away. Haul out egg, baking soda, butter, salt and a bit of sugar. Add to the bowl with the happy yeastiebeasties. (Melt the butter first, and be sure to crack the egg separately so you don't have eggshells in your pancakes. Of course, when you are careful to do that, the eggshells behave, so it seems that you just got another dish dirty for no purpose...)
9. Heat up frying pan with some oil in it. Eye batter and wonder how on earth you're ever going to eat that many pancakes.
10. Undercook first batch. Console yourself with remembering that Alton Brown says you always have to throw out the first pancake. Throw out first batch.
11. Get distracted by weather report and burn the second batch. Throw out second batch.
12. Get impatient and put third batch in too soon for pan to cool off sufficiently, even though you turned down the heat. Look at scorch marks wistfully and throw out third batch.
13. Watch next batch like a hawk and manage to get them out of pan intact and unburnt. Scrape last of batter into pan for a final pancake. Nurse it along like a faint flicker of hope in a darkened world. Add to plate when it's done.
14. Decorate pancakes with butter and syrup.
15. Eat pancakes. Yum!
16. Wonder why you're still hungry...
1. Forget to start the sourdough the night before.
2. Decide that you don't care, because it's a snowday and you can eat them later anyway, so mix up some flour and milk and add starter, pull out the reserve for more starter and wait for it to "proof" (which means get a bunch of bubbles to show that the yeastiebeasties are alive and burping.)
3. Keep looking at it while the bacon is in the oven, hoping.
4. Take out the finished bacon and turn off the oven, leaving the door open so the heat might rise and wake up the yeastiebeasties.
5. Give up and put bowl and tupperwares of yeastiebeastiemix into cooler oven and close door.
6. Forget you did that.
7. Remember belatedly, open oven and find out that there has been much lovely yeastiebeastie eructation going on, hooray!
8. Seal the starter tupperware and put away. Haul out egg, baking soda, butter, salt and a bit of sugar. Add to the bowl with the happy yeastiebeasties. (Melt the butter first, and be sure to crack the egg separately so you don't have eggshells in your pancakes. Of course, when you are careful to do that, the eggshells behave, so it seems that you just got another dish dirty for no purpose...)
9. Heat up frying pan with some oil in it. Eye batter and wonder how on earth you're ever going to eat that many pancakes.
10. Undercook first batch. Console yourself with remembering that Alton Brown says you always have to throw out the first pancake. Throw out first batch.
11. Get distracted by weather report and burn the second batch. Throw out second batch.
12. Get impatient and put third batch in too soon for pan to cool off sufficiently, even though you turned down the heat. Look at scorch marks wistfully and throw out third batch.
13. Watch next batch like a hawk and manage to get them out of pan intact and unburnt. Scrape last of batter into pan for a final pancake. Nurse it along like a faint flicker of hope in a darkened world. Add to plate when it's done.
14. Decorate pancakes with butter and syrup.
15. Eat pancakes. Yum!
16. Wonder why you're still hungry...
