European and American cuisine

German Pancakes. — One heaping cup flour, V2 teaspoonful salt, 2 cupfuls milk or water, 3 eggs. Sift flour and salt into a bowl, add the milk and the 3 yolks, mix it into a smooth batter; beat the 3 whites to a stiff froth, add gradually the batter to the beaten whites while stirring constantly. Place a medium-sized frying pan over the fire, with V^ tablespoonful butter or lard ; as soon as hot, pour in sufficient of the mixture to cover the bottom of pan, shake the pan to and fro and bake till light brown on the under side, turn over and bake the other ; slip the pancake on to a hot plate, bake the remaining batter the same way, and serve at once. This will make 4 pancakes. Eierkuchen. — Separate the yolks from 4 eggs, mix the yolks with 1% cupful milk, Vs pint sifted flour, y^ teaspoonful salt, stir until smooth ; beat the whites to a stiff froth, add slowly the yolk mixture while beating constantly. Place a medium-sized frying pan, with 1 tablespoonful lard and butter, over the fire, when hot pour sufficient batter to cover the bottom, bake light brown on the under side, then turn and bake the other side light brown. Slip the pancake on to a hot plate, and serve at once. Fry the remainder the same way. These pancakes may be spread with marmalade or jelly and rolled up, then served. Potato Pancake. — Pare, wash, and grate 12 large raw potatoes, mix with 1 teaspoonful salt and the yolks of 3 eggs ; beat the whites to a stiff froth, add the potatoes slowly to the whites. Place a large frying pan with 1 tablespoonful fat over the fire, as soon as hot put small portions from the mixture with a spoon into the hot fat, to 644 PANCAKES, MUFFINS, GEMS, Era form cakes the size of a saucer, bake light brown on both gides, transfer them to a hot plate, and serve with apple sauce or any kind of stewed fruit. Another way is to add 2 tablespoonfuls grated bread crumbs to the grated potatoes before they are mixed with the beaten whites. Wheat Cakes. — Put ly^ pint of flour into a sieve, add 2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder, Y, teaspoonf ul salt ; sift the flour into a bowl, add 1 teaspoonful sugar and 1 ounce of butter, rub the butter fine in the flour. Mix the yolks of 3 eggs with 1 pint of milk, add to the flour, stir and mix to a smooth batter ; then whip the whites to a stiff froth, add the batter gradually to the beaten whites while stirring constantly. Have a well-greased griddle over the fire; as soon as hot make a trial, pour a spoonful of the batter on the griddle, and if it should be too thick add a little more milk ; then bake them and serve with maple sirup. (Su£Scient for 6 persons.) Dennett's Pancakes. — Sift 1 pint of flour, with 2 teaspoonf uls baking powder, into a bowl, add Y^ teaspoonful salt, 1 tablespoonful butter, rub the butter flne in the flour, add Ys pi^t of water, 2 eggs, and 2 tablespoonfuls molasses ; mix this into a smooth batter, and bake on a hot well-greased griddle. Serve with maple sirup.