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GIDDLE CAKES




Source of Recipe


Nero Wolfe Cookbook


Archie usually eats the same breakfast as Wolfe does— in quality and in quantity— and he takes it in the kitchen at his breakfast table. The trouble with mornings is that they come when you're not awake. It's all a blur until I am washed and dressed and have somehow made my way down to the kitchen and got orange juice in me, and I'm not really awake until the fourth griddle cake and the second cup of coffee. [excerpt from A Window for Death]

1 cup all-purpose flour 3 tablespoons sugar
1 cup cornmeal 2 large eggs
2 teaspoons baking powder 1½ cups sour milk (or more)
1 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons melted butter

Sift the flour and cornmeal, baking powder, salt, and sugar into a bowl. In a separate bowl beat the eggs until lemon yellow in color, and add the sour milk. (Sour milk can be made by adding a few drops of lemon juice to sweet milk and allowing it to stand for a few hours in a warm place.) Add the dry ingredients to the egg-milk mixture, and beat with a wire whisk or electric hand beater. Add the melted butter gradually while beating.

Ladle out the batter with a dipper onto a hot, lightly oiled griddle. When the bubbles on top have opened and the underside is golden brown, turn each cake and cook for 1 or 2 minutes more. Serve hot with butter and sweet topping (see note below). (Makes 12 griddle cakes.)

Variation:Buckwheat Griddle Cakes: Substitute 1½ cups buckwheat flour and ½ cup all-purpose flour for the flours in the basic recipe, and use buttermilk instead of sour milk. [excerpt from Too Many Clients]

As for toppings, Fritz serves several different kinds: wild-thyme honey from Greece or Syria, Puerto Rican molasses, blackberry jam, guava butter, and sometimes just brown sugar: At ten o'clock I was in the kitchen at my breakfast table, sprinkling brown sugar on a buttered sour-milk griddle cake, with the Times before me on the rack. Fritz standing by, asked, "No cinnamon?"
"No," I said firmly. "I've decided it's an aphrodisiac."
"Then for you it would be- how is it? Taking coal somewhere."
"Coals to Newcastle. That's not the point, but you mean well, and I thank you."
[excerpt from The Mother Hunt]

Reprinted by permission from The Nero Wolfe Cookbook (Cumberland House Publishing)