February 23, 2018
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All recipes, Dairy, Sweets
NO SEPARATION OF EGG WHITES AND YOLKS, NO WHIPPING THE WHITES AND FOLDING IT BACK IN, AND YEAH, NO MAYONNAISE EITHER.
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If you use the internet, you've probably seen this. This super lofty, tall and wiggling souffle pancake, said to have originated from Japan, that will surely tickle the feathers of anyone who has a soft sentimental spots for stacked fluffiness.
I, for one, am not a pancake person. Or at least, not in its traditional form. But over the years, I've been patiently waiting for a game changer that would summon my inner fluff-craze that has been dormant inside my cold, pancake-less heart, and I thought, maybe, this is it.
Well, not quite.
Upon further investigation, I realized that the recipe for this pancake requires violating one of my many holy baking commandments - Thou shalt not ask for the separation of egg white and yolks, separate whippings, and folding them back in. I am not thy bitch. - carved into a plastic chopping board and hung onto my fridge in permanence to remind me of the gods' wrath against disobedience. So typically, if I see such thing, I just walk away. But something, a small voice inside my head, an imploding