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Pancake brunch was a success!
I started the test kitchen at 6:30 am yesterday and it wasn't so bad. The first few came out a little doughy, but I was able to use type 55 flour and just keep adjusting with more milk and a little more baking powder and by the end of the first run, the batch was fluffy enough. I wrapped up the test by 8 am and still had the rest of the day to take DD to school and have some fun. My basic advice, if you ever have to do this, is to reduce the amount of flour you usually use, add a tiny bit more baking powder, and then eyeball it with the milk.
My friends came over today and liked the pancakes, although two funny things happened. A) I was still in the kitchen grabbing the last condiments and when I got to the dining room, I saw that everyone had placed a piece of ham over their respective pancakes (having each served themselves exactly one pancake). 
The inclusion of maple syrup in my "American" brunch was the source of much bafflement to my one French friend, who exclaimed, "but isn't maple syrup Canadian?"
Anyway, it was a lot of fun and now I hope to have a few more months to come up to speed on French cooking before I invite anyone over for another meal. Thanks for all your help, ladies!
Re: Pancake brunch was a success!
Canadian?! [Insert huffy sigh] EVERYONE knows maple syrup was invented by Ethan Allen in Vermont. Where'd this woman go to elementary school ;P?!
I'm kidding, I'm kidding. Although I am partial to VT maple syrup
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Anyway, glad your day was a success!
Glad it went well!
I used to have a recipe for pancakes that had plain yogurt in them, they were always so amazing. I'll have to use google to try to find it again.
A few of my French friends asked me to bring them maple syrup from Canada, they used it on everything and finished their 500ml bottles in less than a month! My 500ml bottle lasts me at least 6!
I made eggs benedict just before xmas for these same friends, they had never tried it before - maybe an idea for your next brunch!
Glad it went well!
Dutchies eat pancakes with bacon or cheese or apples or syrup (Dutch sugar syrup, not maple). Also, pancakes here are large (fill a whole frying pan) and thin. Also, they're a dinner food (or maybe a 'going out with little kids lunch). Very different. By now a lot of Dutch people know/understand American breakfast pancakes, but a lot still grab 1 pancake at a time.
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<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home DAnd I would laugh at the maple syrup thing, but I did have to lug that stuff by the crate on visits home when I lived in Canada. So, apparently, there IS something about Canadian maple syrup