A Little Stack of Heaven

Stack of Pancakes -

For this you are gonna need the following:





All Purpose Flour - 2 cups
Salt - 1/2 teaspoon
Baking Powder - 4 teaspoon
Apple Sauce - 1 tablespoon








Egg Yolks - 2 each
Egg Whites - 2 each
Vegetable Oil - 2 tablespoons
Milk - 2 cups
Vanilla Extract - 1/4 teaspoon
Sugar - 2 tablespoons





This would make a very standard stack of pancakes... but that's not very interesting. So let's add a little flair:






Bananas
Maple Syrup

and the coup de grâce for the entire dish...

BACON!




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Now let's start with mixing our pancakes.

Our first step will be to beat together the egg whites and the sugar.
















There's no need to make a meringue with it, just beat it together and get the sugar dissolved in the egg whites.

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The next step it to add the remaining ingredients. First the dry plate, then the remaining liquids.
















Mix them all together to the point where there are no major pockets of dry ingredients, but some lumps are fine. We're gonna let that sit and move on to something else for a bit, so those lumps will absorb liquid while it waits and one final mix will finish it off.

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Bacon

This section is truly too beautiful in my eyes to mottle it up with words, so we'll let the pictures speak for themselves.
































































Now you're left with two beautiful things:



1. A plate half full of bacon, because you already ate the other half.

...and...

2. To the Gods, it went by the name of golden ambrosia, but here on Earth... we call it bacon fat.




This will surely make a dull stack of pancakes a hit. Here's how...

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The Pancake Bake

First you must take a small drizzle of bacon fat for flavor, poured into a hot pan.
















Once the fat is nice and hot, add your pancake batter.
















Once you see bubbles covering the surface...
















...loosen the edges with a spatula and flip.
















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Once you have a stack of golden brown, delicious pancakes, be sure to stack them nicely. Then all you have to do is butter between the pancakes, cut bananas on top, drizzle with maple syrup, and serve alongside the bacon. The final plate should look a little like this...



















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Just making the dish really didn't get me into the character or the plot, but once I was done, and I looked at the beautiful plate of food, it dawned on me. This is so much food, I can't eat this all by myself, and then I realized, that's not the fate that was meant for these pancakes... pancakes are to be shared.





















So set the table for four and split that beautiful meal into a Sunday brunch for me and some close friends. That was the one part of excerpts that wasn't written down in the recipe, serve among close friends. Each excerpt spoke about people to share the pancakes with, and that's exactly what I did. I believe I could understand what the family in The Story of Little Black Sambo was feeling while eating their pancakes. It's about bringing friends together and enjoying a meal as a group.

Eat Up and Enjoy,
~Chef Küthi