David Eyre's pancake
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| Type | Pancake |
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| Main ingredients | Eggs, milk, flour, nutmeg |
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A David Eyre's pancake is a sweet, baked egg-and-flour dish named for writer and editor David W. Eyre (1912–2008).
The recipe was published by New York Times Food Editor Craig Claiborne in an April 10, 1966, Times article entitled "Pancake Nonpareil". In it, Claiborne recounted discovering the dish at a breakfast prepared by Eyre, then the editor of Honolulu Magazine, while Claiborne was visiting Eyre's Honolulu home.[1]
History
Eyre's version of the pancake was based on a recipe for a German dish called Dutch baby pancake from Victor Hirtzler's Hotel St. Francis Cookbook[2][3][4][5][6][7] best known 1919 edition,[8] with slight alteration.
Hotel St. Francis Cookbook recipe for German pancakes (p. 381)
Two eggs, one-half cup of milk, one-half cup of flour, a pinch of salt, a little nutmeg and one teaspoonful of sugar. Mix well. Have a large frying pan ready with hot butter. Be sure and have the butter run all over the inside of the pan so the pancake will not stick to the sides when it rises. Pour in the batter and place in oven. When nearly done, powder with sugar and put back in oven to brown. Serve with lemon and powdered sugar.[9]
In The New York Times
The recipe for David Eyre's pancake as it appeared in The New York Times, in addition to generally regularizing quantities and temperatures for modern use, omitted sugar and salt from the batter.[10]
The recipe also appears in The Essential New York Times Cookbook, whose author, longtime food writer Amanda Hesser, counts it among her favorites. She names it as one of the top five recipes recommended to her for inclusion when she set out to write the book.[11]
See also
- Popover, a hollow roll
- Choux pastry, a pastry dough
- Gougère, a savoury pastry
- Yorkshire Pudding, also known as batter pudding
- Takoyaki, Japanese puff batter dumpling with octopus
- Clafoutis, French style cherries in batter
- Far Breton a thick Breton cake
- List of pancakes
- food portal
References
- ↑ "David Eyre, Hawaii author, Honolulu magazine co-editor". Honolulu Advertiser. 2008-02-02. Retrieved 2010-12-04.
- ↑ The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book by Victor Hirtzler - Free Ebook - gutenberg.org
- ↑ The Hotel St. Francis cook book (c1919) : Hirtzler, Victor, ca. 1875-1935 : Free : Internet Archive
- ↑ The Hotel St. Francis cook book; (1919) : Hirtzler, Victor : Free : Internet Archive
- ↑ The Hotel St. Francis cook book; (c1919) : Hirtzler, Victor : Free : Internet Archive
- ↑ The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book (1919) : Victor Hirtzler : Free : Internet Archive
- ↑ The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book by Victor Hirtzler - New, Rare & Used Books at Alibris
- ↑ "David Eyre's Pancake: 1966". Food52. 2010-10-29. Retrieved 2010-12-04.
- ↑ "Feeding America: The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book". MSU Libraries. Retrieved 2011-02-05.
- ↑ "1966: David Eyre’s Pancake". The New York Times. 2007-03-26. Retrieved 2010-12-04.
- ↑ "A cookbook of the lost and found". The Boston Globe. 2010-11-17. Retrieved 2010-12-04.
External links
- New York Times recipe for David Eyre's pancake
- Amanda Hesser demonstrates cooking a David Eyre's pancake
