If you love pancakes (who doesn't?) and you love rice pudding (some people don't, I do) you'll appreciate Campanile chef-owner Mark Peel's recipe for breakfast rice pancakes, which I've adapted from an out of print book he wrote with Nancy Silverton, At Home: Two Chefs Cook for Family & Friends. Brown or white rice work equally well with this dish.
Continuing this week's Cook the Book series, today's highlighted recipe from Crescent Dragonwagon's Cornbread Gospels is for George Washington's Favorite Corn Cakes. How do we know they're Washington's favorite? Dragonwagon cites Nelly Custis, Martha Washington's youngest granddaughter, who gave an account of the first president's morning routine, which included getting up before sunrise, reading and writing until 7 a.m. or so, and then breakfasting on three of these cakes, "swimming in butter and honey."
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It's rare for me to find a pancake that satisfies. Let me clarify: whenever I go out to brunch, the first thing that leaps out at me are the pancakes. The idea of pancakes are always enticing—soft, fluffy discs of flour ladled with a generous helping of maple syrup and garnished with bananas? How can that not be appealing? Yet more often than not, I leave the table dissatisfied, remembering that the reason I'm not a huge fan of pancakes to begin with is that they're too light for my tastes and never really fulfill my hunger level (either that, or I fall into an unhappy, rather uncomfortable food coma from consuming too many to try and satisfy my need to eat something dense).
Every Thursday, Dorie Greenspan stops by with a delicious baking recipe. Here's one you can print out for tomorrow morning's breakfast.
Tonight, after you've washed the platters and dried the endless glasses, you may have had your fill of stuffing and sweet potato casserole, brussels sprouts, cornbread, and maybe even turkey, but if you're like me, you'll be happy to give pumpkin one last fling. And if you are, I'd suggest these pumpkin pie pancakes to end the holiday weekend.
The pancakes have all the spices—and rum—of a holiday pie and can be served at brunch with a slick of maple syrup or savored as a dessert, in which case I'd certainly top them with great ice cream.
If you're making these for brunch, make it easy on yourself: the night before, whisk all the dry ingredients together and keep them covered at room temperature; whisk all the wet ingredients together and keep them covered in the fridge; and measure out the pumpkin puree and keep it covered and chilled as well. If you're flipping for the masses, you can easily multiply the recipe.
I was all set to give you a biscuit recipe for today's Sunday Brunch post, but then I happened to read Deb's Smitten Kitchen post on the lemon ricotta pancakes with sauteed apples recipe from Gourmet Magazine in 1991. Yum!
Here's the recipe, complete with Deb's annotation. For Deb's great photos you'll have to click through to her post.
At our house Sunday brunch or breakfast (depending on how early my wife gets up) is the perfect excuse to whip up a batch of featherlight pancakes with a crispy veneer and tender insides. This recipe is adapted from Pam Anderson, a really fine cookbook writer. You'll find it after the jump, along with some terrific variations. (The chocolate chip pancakes rock.) If you've got a great pancake recipe we'd love to hear about it.
I usually just get great bagels, whipped cream cheese, and some smoked salmon (either Norwegian or Western Nova) for brunch, but every once in a while I like to have something sweet. This recipe for Baked Brown Sugar Pancakes is from one of my favorite brunch cookbooks, Brunch: 100 Recipes from Five Points Restaurant
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