Dishes such as pancakes and fritters have been known since ancient times to many peoples in different countries of the World, the countries of North America are no exception. In the US and Canada, pancakes are very popular - bakery, the practice of which was developed thanks to emigrants from Scotland. According to the composition of the test, size and splendor of this American punkeys still closer to our fritters than to pancakes. Pancakes are one of the most common North American breakfasts, they are usually served with maple syrup.
Tell you how to cook lush American pancakes - punkcakes.
Pancake dough
Usually dough for pancakes is made on milk, cream or liquid fermented milk products. The composition of the test necessarily includes some oil, since they are usually baked in a dry frying pan. Also in the test there should be eggs, they are whipped (or whipped the dough itself), so that the pancakes turned out magnificent. Yeast is not used, it is replaced by a baking powder. It is possible to add various flavoring additives to the dough (chocolate, fruit, etc.).
American punkcakes - recipe
Ingredients:
- whole wheat flour - 1 glass;
- milk of medium fat content - 1 glass;
- eggs of chicken - 3 pieces;
- sugar - 1 teaspoon;
- baking powder (food soda, extinguished with lemon juice) - 2 pinch;
- salt - 1 pinch;
- natural butter or vegetable oil - 25 g (or 2 tablespoons).
Preparation
Separate egg yolks from proteins. Mix in a bowl of flour, milk, sugar, yolks and softened butter. Stir thoroughly. Proteins with the addition of a pinch of salt are picked up by the mixer to the state of stable high foam.
Gently put the squirrels into the dough. You can whip the dough a little more with a mixer.
We warm the frying pan well and bake pancakes with a twist until the appearance on both sides of characteristic golden-brown hues.
You can give pancakes not only with maple, but also with various fruit syrups, jams, jam, sour cream, yogurt, chocolate cream .
Following roughly the same recipe (see above), you can prepare American pancakes on kefir - just replace the milk with kefir, in this version, soda can not be extinguished.
If the sauce is planned unsweetened, you can use wheat flour in half with rye to prepare punkakes. In order to rethink the general idea of making pancakes, you can even use oatmeal or buckwheat flour, you will get an American dish, so to speak, in a familiar form. For greater ease and splendor, you can add starch to the flour.
Chocolate American punkcakes - recipe
Ingredients:
- wheat flour - 2/3 cup;
- corn starch - 1/3 cup;
- cream fatty - 30 ml (or a piece of butter 25 g);
- milk - 1/2 cup;
- egg chicken - 3 pieces;
- cocoa powder - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- sugar - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- vanilla or cinnamon - 2 pinch;
- red hot pepper - 1 pinch;
- rum, tequila or cachasha - 2 tsp.
- soda food slaked with lemon juice - 2 pinch.
Preparation
Separate egg yolks from proteins. Mix the sugar with cocoa powder, add the yolks and carefully rub it. Pour in the milk, add cream or softened butter, then starch, flour, soda, hot pepper, vanilla, rum. All carefully mix. Proteins separately beat up the mixer to a stable high foam and carefully put into the dough. You can still beat it with a mixer. Bake pancakes in a dry frying pan or can be on melted butter (or grease a heated frying pan with a slice of lard before each shipment of pancakes).
Chocolate pancakes are served well with a cream of unsweetened yogurt with the addition of some fruit syrups.