Monday, November 19, 2007

Recipe Corner: Stout pancakes

Using beer instead of milk and eggs to make pancakes sounded like an intriguing idea. Beer and pancakes are both bread-based substances. Both rely on yeast to develop. And the match made in heaven apparently ends there.
One recipe found online promoted Bison Chocolate Stout pancakes. The directions, accompanied by photos (see below), called for two things (three including syrup): the stout and pancake mix.



The pancake preparations follow essentially the order as regular pancake directions, except a bit more pancake mix is needed.

My judgment on the Bison chocolate pancakes remains remains suspended. However, Robin Davis, a reporter for The San Francisco Chronicle, weighed in with a rather negative review when she tried blueberry stout pancakes at Bistro 1650 in Oct. 2000.
"The aforementioned blueberry stout pancakes ($7.25), however, were just odd. The stout gives them a malty, almost foamy quality, that lingered a bit too long on the palate."



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