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PEE DEE RIVER PANCAKE MIX
INGREDIENTS:
1 quart unbleached, un-sifted
1/2 cup sugar
white flour
1 heaping teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
Combine by stirring well; store in a tightly closed jar under refrigeration
until ready to use. When ready to make pancakes, measure the mix by
cupfuls into a bowl. Each cupful of the dry mix will produce 3 to 4
cakes about 4 inches in diameter. For each cupful of mix, add:
INGREDIENTS:
1/4 cup undiluted evaporated milk
1/4 cup lukewarm water
Combine the milk and water and stir into the dry ingredients to make a
creamy, smooth batter. Let the batter stand about 10 minutes, then
beat vigorously for a minute or two. Pour enough batter to form cakes
3 to 4 inches in diameter into a greased hot pan, burn when bubbles form on
tope, cook the second side until brown.
Recipe from Mel Marshall's Outdoor Cookery. Recipe from steelhead
fishing addicts on the upper reaches of California's Klamath River, where
they lived in a little cabin near the town of Orleans. A dozen or so
steelhead addicts turned the cabin into a sort of informal fly fisherman's
headquarters, and for several years (Mel Marshall) was a more or less
regular member of the group.
NOTES: When cooking on the river either over an open fire or using
a Coleman type liquid gas or propane stove, ones appetite really gets
humongous from all the good clean fresh air, peaceful and tranquil state of
mind and the extra energy expended setting up a camp site, chopping fire
wood, setting trot-lines, working fish baskets, setting bush hooks, looking
for Native American artifacts such as arrow and spear heads, pottery,
swimming, boating and a host of other things that refreshes ones spirit by
getting away from the day to day events called Life!
Meals prepared over an open camp fire using cast iron cookware is a whole
cooking world and experience within it's self. Using a Dutch oven
surrounded by a glowing bed of red hot coals with hot coals/embers on top of the lid, one can prepare about
anything you desire including baking pies and cakes, biscuits, roasts, stews
and whatever you have the raw materials for. The secret to a Dutch
oven is the flanged tight fitting
lid that allows you to place the hot coals on top of the lid whereby
applying heat from the top as well from the bottom and sides. During our many years of
camping on Blewett
Falls Lake, Pee Dee River, Anson County, North Carolina we certainly did
have wonderful table fare!
Bill aka Mickey Porter 01-20-09.
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