Brunch,
p. 21
APPLE BUTTER
1 lb. tart apples
3 tablespoons brown sugar
A pinch of ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
2 tablespoons butter
PANCAKES
¾ cup self-rising flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
3 tablespoons fine cornmeal
3 tablespoons sugar
1 egg, beaten
1 ½ cups buttermilk, at room temperature
1 tablespoon butter, melted
1 cup small blackberries
Oil, for greasing
TO SERVE
Light cream
Extra blackberries
Peel, core, and dice the apples and put in a saucepan
with the sugar, cinnamon, lemon juice, and 1 tablespoon water.
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| Diced and ready! |
Bring to a boil,
cover, and simmer over a low heat for 15-20 minutes until softened. Mash with a
fork, add the butter, and heat through, uncovered, until thickened. Set aside
to cool.
To make the pancakes, sift the flour and baking soda
into a bowl and stir in the cornmeal and sugar. Put the egg, buttermilk, and
melted butter into a second bowl and beat until mixed.
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| This doesn't make a ton of batter - which is kind of nice, because it's always weird to have tons of leftover pancakes. |
Stir the mixture into
the dry ingredients to form a smooth, thick batter. Fold in the blackberries.
Heat a nonstick skillet over medium heat until hot,
brush lightly with oil and pour in a little of the batter to form a small
pancake. Cook for 2 minutes until bubbles appear on the surface. Flip and cook
for a further 1 minute until cooked through.
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| They're really not kidding about needing small blackberries. If you buy big beefed-up grocery store ones then cut them up. Otherwise the pancakes are impossible to turn. |
Keep the cooked pancakes warm in a
low oven while cooking the rest.
Serve the pancakes topped with apple butter, a little
cream, and blackberries.
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| Mine didn't come out especially pretty, partly because of the huge-blackberry issue, but the apples and the berry garnish dressed them up nicely. |
My Rating: 5/5 "This has WONDERFUL flavor. The pancakes themselves are great quality, the apples and blackberries are nice and tart, and the cream unifies everything in an excellent way. (As a Hoosier who cares about these things, though, I should note that I thought this was much more of an apple sauce than an apple butter. Sometimes semantics are important.) But really, breakfast foods are some of the best foods, and this is a truly outstanding breakfast food."
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