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START THE NEW YEAR WASTING LESS FOOD: Blueberry Pancakes Special!
Ep. 326
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\Sometimes the cost on mid-summer berries is too good to walk by so you stock up on some delightful berries and then... need to find a way to use them up.
BLUEBERRY PANCAKES
Melt 80g butter in a small, smooth bowl and set it aside
Pick out the dud berries and compost those! They're not good.
Separate 2 eggs, whizz the whites of the eggs with 2tbs of caster sugar.
Decant into a standby bowl then reuse the mixing bowl (unwashed) to whizz up:
the 2 egg yolks (I misspoke in the episode and said "eggs" not "egg yolks" but it's YOLKS, folks)
1 cup milk
1tsp vanilla essence
pinch salt
combine, then -
sift in 1 cup SR flour (wholemeal is ok)
add in the melted butter
mix just a bit - DO NOT OVERMIX!
then cut through the foamy, meringuey egg white.
Warm up a heavy-based frypan. Rub butter over the pan. Spread 1/2 cup - 3/4 cup sized pancakes on the pan, dot with an ABUNDANCE of blueberries, pop the lid on the pan then leave alone for 1.5 - 2 mins. Flip and cook for another 1.5 mins with the lid off.
Serve immediately with whipped cream, sliced banana, maple syrup, etc.
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