These are a family favorite since 1994.
Chocolate Pancakes
| 1 1/2 cups | All-purpose Flour | Substitute cake/break flour for more cake-like texture |
| 1 teaspoon | Baking Soda | |
| 1/2 teaspoon | Salt | |
| 1/4 cup | Sugar | Substitute honey for a sweeter pancake, or maple syrup for fall flavor. |
| 1/4 cup | Cocoa | Substitute baking chocolate with butter to have lighter pancake |
| 2 | Eggs | Lightly beaten |
| 1 cup | Milk | Substitute skim milk or soy milk may require adjustment of liquid/flour ration for proper mixture flow on griddle |
| 1/4 cup | Butter | Substitute with margarine or vegetable oil will result in a smoother-texture pancake. Add vanilla for added flavor |
| 1/2 cup | Milk Chocolate Morsels | Fall mix with Dark-Chocolate and Butterscotch chips, for Christmas, use Christmas chips or M&M’s |
Shift together the first five ingredients in a large bowl. Combine eggs and milk; add to flour mixture, sitting just until dry ingredients are moistened. Add melted butter and chocolate morsels, stirring just until combined.
For each pancake, pour about 2 tablespoons batter onto a hot, lightly greased griddle. Turn pancakes when tops are covered with bubbles and edges look cooked. Yields: 18 (4-inc h) pancakes.
The Delaware Heritage Cookbook
The Deaware Heritage Commission
Wilmington, Delaware
The above instructions are as written in the source book. The personal substitutions are in the right-hand column.
I use a cast-iron griddle on a gas range. I set the temperature so the pancakes cook enough in three minutes per side.
I use either the 1/4 cup or 1/2 cup to dispense the batter onto the griddle.
Chocolate Chip Cookies
The Chewy Recipe | Alton Brown | Food Network
This is from an episode, Three Chips for Sister Marsha | Good Eats | Food Network.
For Christmas I would substitute either Christmas Chips or M&M’s in the recipes.
Christmas-time Beer
Old Fezziwig Clone All Grain Recipe (homebrewing.org)
For beer this year, I am trying the Old Fezziwig clone. I added extra Ginger and gave it a little-more kick. Over time the ginger will mellow, so after Christmas it should be a nice Winter beer.