Chapter 15
Section 15 of Betty Crocker's Bisquick Cookbook, 157 Recipes and Ideas. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Read by Betty B. Betty Crocker's Bisquick Cookbook, 157 Recipes and Ideas by Betty Crocker.
For Breakfast, Pancakes and Waffles. Puff pancakes. 2 eggs, 1 cup milk, 2 1⁄3 cups bisquick, 2 tablespoons sugar, 1 quarter cup cooking, salad oil or melted shortening. Beat eggs until soft peaks form.
Blend in milk. Add bisquick and sugar. Mix just until thoroughly dampened. Fold in oil. Spoon onto medium hot griddle.
Grease griddle if necessary. When puffed up and bubbles begin to break, cook on other side. Makes 15 to 20. Puff waffles. Follow recipe above except bake in preheated waffle baker.
Neat trick. Serve puff pancakes or waffles for dessert topped with fruit and whipped cream. Waffles with pineapple. Perfect match for smoked ham. 2 cups crushed pineapple, number 2 can, 1 quarter cup brown sugar packed, 2 tablespoons
butter. Mix pineapple, sugar, butter. Bring to a boil, then simmer 3 minutes. Add a little water if too thick. Spoon warm over crisp baked waffles.
P.S. griddle is right temperature for baking when a few drops of water sprinkled on it jump around. Blueberry pancakes or waffles. Topped with honey or hard sauce, they double for dessert. Make pancakes or waffles except add 2 tablespoons sugar to the batter.
Then gently fold in 1 cup fresh or drained frozen or canned blueberries. Dust with confectioners sugar. Silver dollar pancakes. How to be special to the children. Make pancake batter thin with a little milk.
Then spoon out a tablespoon at a time to fill your griddle with tiny mouthfuls of silver dollar pancakes. Serve several on each plate. Bacon waffles. Lay short strips of bacon over grids of heated waffle iron.
Close and bake about 1 minute. Make waffle batter except omit shortening. Spoon batter over bacon. Bake. Pecan pancakes and waffles.
Add 3 quarter to 1 cup finely chopped pecans to pancake or waffle batter. Bake served with syrup or ice cream. Sausage rolls with maple glaze. Make pancakes. Roll a fried pork sausage link in each pancake.
Top with maple glaze. 1 cup maple or maple flavored syrup. 1 tablespoon butter. 2 tablespoons cream. Mix and cook gently without stirring until slightly thickened.
About 5 minutes. Spicy pancakes. Keep these in mind for dessert too. Add 1 teaspoon cinnamon. 1 half teaspoon each allspice, cloves, and nutmeg to pancake batter.
Bake served with spiced cherry sauce. Spiced cherry sauce. 3 quarter cup sugar. 3 tablespoons cornstarch. 1 quarter teaspoon cinnamon.
1 eighth teaspoon salt. 1 cup chopped fresh cherries or number 2 can. 1 tablespoon strained lemon juice. 1 cup juice from cherries or water. Mix sugar, cornstarch, cinnamon, salt in saucepan.
Add rest of ingredients. Bring to boil, stirring constantly. Boil 1 minute. Serve hot over plain or spicy pancakes. Apple pancakes.
Add 2 cups grated unpeeled apple, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, and 2 tablespoons sugar to pancake batter. Bake served with syrup. Tropical pancakes. Top each stack with a pineapple slice.
Serve with fresh orange syrup made by boiling together until slightly thickened. 1 cup orange juice. 1 third cup sugar. And 1 quarter cup water. Sour cream pancakes.
Make pancakes except use 1 cup water and 2 thirds cup sour cream in place of milk. Cornmeal pancakes or waffles. Make pancakes or waffles except use 1 half cup cornmeal in place of 1 half cup of the bisque. Neat trick.
To use up leftover pancake batter. French toast. Dip slices of day old or stale bread in leftover batter. Saute in hot shallow fat until brown. Turn and brown on other side.
Serve with syrup or jelly and confectioners' sugar. Meat mates. Dip apple rings, pineapple slices, cooked baby carrots, or cooked parsnips in leftover batter. Saute as above.
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