Fountain Pens and Handmade Paper » food http://blog.morgaine-lefaye.net Scraps and scribbles from Antwerp, Belgium Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:21:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Link for June 18th, 2010 http://blog.morgaine-lefaye.net/archives/2010/06/18/23.01.11 http://blog.morgaine-lefaye.net/archives/2010/06/18/23.01.11#comments Fri, 18 Jun 2010 21:01:11 +0000 Morgaine http://blog.morgaine-lefaye.net/archives/2010/06/18/23.01.11
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    Poffertjes
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    Apparently originally poffertjes were made in a monastry serving as the consecrated wafer served in Roman Catholic church. At that time they were made from a different kind of flour. During the French revolution, there was a shortage of this flour and alternatives were sought. The monks also traded their products with traveling traders. Those sometimes attended mass and recieved the hostie. They convinced the monks to sell them the recipe and had a blacksmith make them a special four. The recipe was sold to different traders and they all made their own improvements to the original recipe.

    Although it’s possible to make the dough yourself, I usually use a ‘poffertjes mix’:

    Poffertjesmix

    That way, I only need to add water, eggs and sugar. You also need a special pan, either a non stick pan:

    Non stick poffertjes pan

    or a cast aluminium pan:

    Cast aluminium poffertjes pan

    Apparently Dutch poffertjes are related to Danish Aebleskiver.

    Further reading:

    Aebleskiver and Poffertjes
    Poffertjes (small puffers)
    Poffertjes (traditional version)
    Poffertjes (tiny pancakes)
    Recipe cottage: Poffertjes
    Poffertjes
    Poffertjeskraam (in English)
    Aebleskiver (Poffertjes)–best recipe and links
    Aebleskiver recipes
    Poffertjes (in Dutch)

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