Pee Dee River Pancakes

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PEE DEE RIVER PANCAKE MIX

INGREDIENTS:

1 quart unbleached, un-sifted white flour            1/2 cup sugar
1 heaping teaspoon baking powder                      1 teaspoon salt

Combine by stirring well; store in a tightly closed jar under refrigeration until ready to use.  When ready to make pancakes, measure the mix by cupfuls into a bowl.  Each cupful of the dry mix will produce 3 to 4 cakes about 4 inches in diameter.  For each cupful of mix, add:

INGREDIENTS:

1/4 cup undiluted evaporated milk
1/4 cup lukewarm water

Combine the milk and water and stir into the dry ingredients to make a creamy, smooth batter.  Let the batter stand about 10 minutes, then beat vigorously for a minute or two.  Pour enough batter to form cakes 3 to 4 inches in diameter into a greased hot pan, turn when bubbles form on top, cook the second side until brown.

YIELD:  Cup of batter mix equals 3 to 4 pancakes 4 inches in diameter

Above pancakes prepared on 07-20-14 and were outstanding; light, fluffy and melt in your mouth good.  I am surprised they didn't float off the plate; Oppps, they did, right off my fork into the ole taste buds area.........grin if you must!   I used Walmart brand extra fluffy pancake mix for these.

NOTES:  When cooking on the river either over an open fire or using a Coleman type liquid gas or propane stove, ones appetite really gets humongous from all the good clean fresh air, peaceful and tranquil state of mind and the extra energy expended setting up a camp site, chopping fire wood, setting trot-lines, working fish baskets, setting bush hooks, looking for Native American artifacts such as arrow and spear heads, pottery, swimming, boating and a host of other things that refreshes ones spirit by getting away from the day to day events called Life!

Meals prepared over an open camp fire using cast iron cookware is a whole cooking world and experience within it's self.  Using a Dutch oven surrounded by a glowing bed of red hot coals with hot coals/embers on top of the lid, one can prepare about anything you desire including baking pies and cakes, biscuits, roasts, stews and whatever you have the raw materials for.  The secret to a Dutch oven is the flanged tight fitting lid that allows you to place the hot coals on top of the lid whereby applying heat from the top as well from the bottom and sides.  During our many years of camping on Blewett Falls Lake, Pee Dee River, Anson County, North Carolina, we certainly did have wonderful table fare and memories to last a life time!  

Recipe from Mel Marshall's Outdoor Cookery.  Recipe from steelhead fishing addicts on the upper reaches of California's Klamath River, where they lived in a little cabin near the town of Orleans.  A dozen or so steelhead addicts turned the cabin into a sort of informal fly fisherman's headquarters, and for several years (Mel Marshall) was a more or less regular member of the group.

An excellent pancake batter mix is available from Wal-Mart Extra Fluffy Great Value Brand.  Just add water per the directions on the box and I add 1 teaspoon of pure Mexican or my home made vanilla extract.  You will be surprised at the taste and texture. 

Web published by Bill aka Mickey Porter on 01-20-09 with updated pixs added on 07-20-14.

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