Bohemian-American Cook Book/Pancakes

Beat two yolks with two cups of sour milk, add salt, a cup of sifted flour and beat. If too thin, add flour. The batter should be thin enough to run. Beat two whites, add to the batter with a bit of baking soda dissolved in a teaspoon of hot water, and fold in carefully. Bake on a hot greased griddle.

These are made with the prepared self-rising flour. Mix a cup of this flour with two cups of sweet milk, or two cups of water to which you have added a beaten egg. Bake in the usual manner.

Beat three eggs with two cups of milk, add a teaspoon of powdered sugar, a piece of melted butter, two or three tablespoons of liquid yeast, or half a cake of dissolved compressed yeast, salt and beat thoroughly, then add enough flour to form a batter of the right consistency, and let it rise. Bake in the usual manner, spread each pancake with jam, sprinkle with grated cottage cheese, or ground poppy seed and sugar mixed together, and pour over it melted butter. You may substitute sugar and cinnamon.

Beat two cups of milk with six yolks, add a teaspoon of melted butter, a cup of flour sifted with a heaping teaspoon of baking powder, and mix together. ​Beat the six whites and fold carefully into the batter, then bake in the usual manner.

Beat two eggs, add a quart of buttermilk, a teaspoon of baking soda dissolved in hot water, salt to taste and enough flour to form a batter. Bake in the usual manner.

Dissolve a cake of compressed yeast in two cups of lukewarm water and the same amount of milk, or use a cake of dry yeast, add enough buckwheat flour to make a thin batter, and let it rise over night. In the morning add a teaspoon of salt, two tablespoons of syrup and half a teaspoon of baking soda dissolved in warm water, beat together, and bake over a hot fire. If you do not have milk use water, adding two beaten eggs to a quart of water. If this is added to the batter before baking, it will take the place of milk. The syrup gives a better color. Pancakes made of self-rising buckwheat flour are made in the same manner as shown in recipe 624.

Grate six peeled raw potatoes, drain dry through a cloth, add six tablespoons of sweet cream, two beaten eggs, four tablespoons of flour and a pinch of salt. Mix and fry on hot butter. Sprinkle with sugar before serving.

Pour hot water over two cups of cornmeal, allow it to stand thus half an hour and when cool add a teaspoon of butter, a teaspoon of sugar, a dash of salt, five tablespoons of sweet milk and three beaten yolks. ​Sift together a teaspoon of baking powder with a tablespoon of wheat flour, add to the batter and mix. Finally add three whites beaten stiff, and bake.

Pour hot water over a cup of cornmeal, but not more than it will absorb. This is done in the evening. When cool, add two cups of milk and two tablespoons of liquid yeast, or half a cake of compressed yeast dissolved, a tablespoon of brown sugar and let it rise over night. In the morning add two beaten eggs, salt, half a teaspoon of baking soda dissolved in hot water, mix and bake.

To a quart of milk add three beaten eggs, a tablespoon of melted butter and a teaspoon of salt. If the milk is sweet, use a teaspoon of baking powder mixed with a tablespoon of flour. If sour, use a teaspoon of baking soda dissolved in hot water. Add two cups of bread crumbs to the milk, mix and bake.