From-Poverty-to-Riches Pancakes

Ingredients

• One pint of flour
• one pinch of salt
• one heaping teaspoonful of baking powder
• one heaping tablespoonful of sugar
• Add warm — not hot — water

Method

1. 1

   Mix flour, salt, baking powder, and sugar thoroughly.

2. 2

   Add warm water until the batter is thick as heavy cream and beat well.

3. 3

   Pour onto a hot griddle in desired pancake size.

4. 4

   Do not spread with a spoon.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Most for your money cookbook (1938) by Cora Lovisa Brackett Brown, Cora Brown, page 70. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

FROM-POVERTY-TO-RICHES PANCAKES The cheapest and at the same time the best honest-to-goodness pancake we know was described in a newspaper by a Nebraskan woman, as follows: My invalid husband and I were compelled to spend the summer in the mountains one year. Our funds were low and I knew that something must be done at once. But what? Finally I thought of this way out of my diffi- culty. I need only to say that some days I made as high as four dollars for you to know how successfully my plan turned out. I noticed that many hunters and fishermen passed our way, so I hung out a sign with "Hot Coffee and Pancakes — 25 cents" on it. I made good strong coffee, serving only sugar with it. Only syrup was served with the pancakes, which I made by the following recipe, which is excellent and inexpensive: One pint of flour; one pinch of salt; one heaping teaspoonful of baking powder; one heaping tablespoonful of sugar. Mix thoroughly dry. Add warm — not hot — water

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