Pancakes With Jarred Baby Food Simple And Very Tasty

EASY PANCAKES RECIPE BY TASTY

Steps:

• Melt butter in the microwave in 15-second intervals.
• Sift flour, sugar and baking soda together into a large bowl.
• Mix eggs, milk and butter in a separate bowl and add to dry ingredients.
• Cook pancakes in a frying pan on medium heat.
• Serve with whipped cream and maple syrup.
• Enjoy!

HOMEMADE BUTTER

Steps:

• Prepare a screw top jar. It must be clean, dry, and not smell like it's previous contents. (Peanut butter jars work great, as well as baby food jars for smaller portions).
• Pour the cream into the jar, and put the lid on. You will need to leave the jar about half empty to have space to shake, so adjust the amount of cream accordingly.
• Shake the jar vigorously. After a bit, it will coat the sides of the jar, then become whipped cream. Keep shaking - it will start to separate. Its done when it is totally separated into butter and buttermilk.
• NOTE: I stopped every minute to open the jar and take a picture (and let my arm rest :-) ) and it took 7 minutes of shaking. After several reviews, I thought that I'd mention that it takes some people longer - even 20 or 30 minutes - but it is still worth the time to make :D .
• Pour the buttermilk into a separate container, and enjoy!
• A great project for school kids is to use the buttermilk to make biscuits or bread, and then eat it with the butter. While it is very soft at first, it gets rather hard as you store it in the fridge, and will need to soften if you plan to use it as a spread. (If you don't eat it all right away!).
• While researching cheese making I discovered that the resulting butter milk is 'old fashioned' and purchased buttermilk is thicker as it is cultured in a process similar to yogurt. (Someone mentioned this in a review as well.) I have used it with great success in a few recipes without knowing that there was a difference.

PANCAKES WITH JARRED BABY FOOD - SIMPLE AND VERY TASTY

Steps:

• Combine all dry ingredients and mix together well with fork or whisk. Add beaten egg, oil, vanilla if using, baby food, and mix. Add enough milk to give the batter the consistency you like; about a half cup should be right. The thicker the batter, the thicker your pancakes, the thinner, obviously, the thinner the pancakes will be. Heat a griddle or skillet to medium heat. When tiny droplets of water sizzle and evaporate the griddle is hot enough. You can either lightly oil the griddle or use non stick cooking spray. Drop a little less than 1/4 cup of batter on the griddle at a time. Note: using baby food makes the batter a little more dense than regular pancakes, so they will need a little longer to cook to avoid being soggy in the middle, so either reduce the heat and cook them longer or make smaller pancakes. Enjoy!

BABY FOOD BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Mix together sugar and butter in a microwaveable dish and cook on HIGH heat just long enough for it to soften up- maybe 30 seconds, but not to melt it completely.
• Remove and stir to combine.
• Mix together baby food, over-ripe bananas, lime juice, eggs,vanilla,extract, and buttermilk.
• Mix in the butter mixture gradually, so as not to cook the eggs.
• It will look a little curdly from the lime juice- this is normal and will go away upon baking.
• Combine all dry ingredients together in a large bowl, then add the wet mixture and stir with a wooden spoon just enough to combine the ingredients and moisten them- pressing out any big lumps with your spoon (don't overmix).
• Pour into a greased and floured loaf pan (9x5") and bake in a preheated oven at 350 F (180 C) for about an hour or until a toothpick tests clean.
• Let cool completely before serving or it will fall apart.