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| Sunday, February 11, 2007 |
| Mr Ata and the Pancakes |
Ata made pancakes for breakfast.
"Wow!" said Mr Ata, who avoids cooking at all costs, "How did you make them? Without even a bottle! And so quickly! Did you use the stabber mixer or the electric blender?"
Ata looked at him severely. "Neither. I used a wooden spoon," she said.
"No!" exclaimed Mr Ata, who seems to believe pancakes cannot be made without the use of a pre-packaged pancake mix in a shaker jug. "But it hardly took you any time!"
Ata made an exasperated face. "Have you really never made pancakes before?" she demanded. "How did you get to 32 without learning to make pancakes?"
"Oh, I made pancakes," he assured her, "Mum taught me. You mix the flour and stuff, and let it sit for two hours."
Ata, at this point, becomes suspicious. This sounds like a joke. "Two hours! Why did you have to let it sit for two hours?"
"So it didn't get lumps," explains Mr Ata.
"You don't have to let it sit. Why would you let it sit? It goes all black if you let pancake mix sit for too long. The flour goes black. You just mix it harder to get rid of the lumps. I've never heard ANYONE say to let it sit."
"Well," said Mr Ata. "My mum said to let it sit. You obviously don't know enough. I know lots of stuff."
"Yeah," mumbles Ata, "Most of it's wrong."
"Maybe," asserts Mr Ata cheerfully, "But at least my head's full. It doesn't matter what you know, as long as you're full."
And that's a true story. |
posted by Ata @ 11:55 am  |
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| 5 Comments: |
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Hee hee hee. Thwacking time?
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My mum reckons they come out better if you let them sit for a bit, but I don't see how it would get rid of lumps.
It's a shame Mr Ata isn't famous, because that would make a fantastic famous quote.
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Myo's mother also insisted that that sort of mixture (for pikelets, fritters, pancakes) had to stand for a while. Not to get rid of lumps. Some other reason. Not something that i ever bothered about.
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Maybe she told Mr. Ata to let them sit so he would leave the room, bored, and she could use and electric mixer to get rid of the lumps and he would be forever destined to make pancakes that couldn't measure up to Mom's.
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I think you're supposed to let the batter sit so that the flour swells or something... I think it results in lighter or fluffier pancakes. You have to do the same with Yorkshire pudding batter as well, I think. But only for half an hour. And it may not make any difference at all. I hardly ever make pancakes, so I haven't given myself the chance to find out.
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Hee hee hee. Thwacking time?