As it seems impossible (or difficult) to find either the recipe or the book it came from online, here’s our favorite pancake recipe, from when I was a kid and the book was already old! It’s a slightly sweet pancake, nutty from the wheat germ. I thought I’d posted it somewhere in the past, but maybe that was on chowhound.
The Sensible Pancake from “Creative Activities…Program: Cooking”*
1 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp salt
3 tbls sugar
5 tsp baking powder
1/2 cups wheat germ
2 cups milk
2 eggs
1/3 cup vegetable oil
We usually halve the recipe.
combine dry ingredients
combine wet ingredients
pour wet into dry, stir until mixed “There may be some lumps. Do not fret.”
“Serve with butter and syrup. How many can you eat?”
*Copyright 1974 by Regensteiner Publishing Enterprises, Inc. This appears to not be in print anymore so I am including the quotes for color, the rest of the recipe is paraphrased. Kudos to Thomas Petiet who was the Art Director and Jan Wentz who is credited with illustrations for those pages. I think I’m going to try to get ahold of a second copy of this book even though I only have ever made the one things from it (if you don’t count “buttered bananas”, which is just bananas with peanut butter on them). There is a page about cleaning a fish and also a few pages encouraging kids to pick dandelion and other weeds to eat so I think it was ahead of its time
