After a few days of unmitigated fashion agony, when my clothes are just too brown or too corduroy, it all blows over and it’s summer—flowered-cotton, crazy-colored summer.
Spring clothes in the Northeast….never understood the concept…one day it’s,winter and then you blink and find yourself in suddenly summer
also, sweet or savory, there’s nothing like a good Dutch baby on a Maine island 🥰
i'm enjoying the lively reader discussion as to this being a Dutch baby--this pancake is a little more solid than a baby. I'll make it for you this summer on another Maine island!
Pancake, popover, flapjack... I love this culinary vocabulary, and it's extraordinary how different the things with the same names are over here in UK!
We have pancakes over here, but they're the size of a large frying pan and very thin, rather than the smaller, thicker ones I've seen on US TV. They don't get stacked, but eaten individually (traditionally on Pancake Day - Shrove Tuesday - sprinkled with lemon juice and sugar and rolled up or folded into quarters). Thicker, smaller pancakes, US-style, if you like, are called either 'drop scones' or 'Scotch pancakes'.
I only know the term 'popover' to mean a blouse that has buttons only halfway down and which you need to pull over your head to put on. There's 'turnover', mind - but that's puff pastry folded over an apple filling into a triangle - like a 'hand pie', I think they're called in US.
Flapjacks are chewy oat bars made from rolled oats, butter, sugar and golden syrup!
I always enjoy your posts, Amie. I'm very, very behind in my Substack reading, but I've been catching up with a whole load of mouthwatering reading treats from Cook and Tell this afternoon. Thank you!
This looks so good! I need you to come make it for me though because I am on grandbaby care 40 hours/week and after he leaves I fall asleep until he comes again the next morning.
“So, for starters, we had this year’s crop of nine-to-thirteen-year-old girls competing for the coveted title of ‘Miss Shrimp,’” The world lost something when they discontinued the Miss Shrimp contest! Luckily we have this terrific column and a gorgeous strawberry pancake! Just yummy, Amie!
Thanks for setting the record straight! I should have known, after a year of living in another Nordic country formerly under Swedish rule (Norway). And Denmark? that's another story and have I got a Danish recipe for you!
My oldest granddaughter, who has two young sons, cooked a Mother’s Day brunch. She makes pancakes for the boys every Sunday for breakfast and so she decided to make pancakes a part of the brunch. But, she was having a large group of us and I thought it would be a lot of work for her to be standing at the stove flipping pancakes when she deserved to be celebrated, too. So, I suggested that she make a couple of Dutch Babies instead. “What in the world is a Dutch Baby ??” , she asked. I had only eaten one, but never made one. I could only describe it as a cross between a popover and a crepe and that one made in a 10” cast iron skillet could feed four people and that you could fill it with fresh berries or 10x sugar or syrup & butter. Whatever! She got right on it and found a recipe and made 4 gigantic ones for “the brunch”. Now, the boys don’t want pancakes anymore…they want a big Dutch Baby!! My granddaughter hasn’t stopped thanking me for the suggestion. Guess I’ll have to put my money where my mouth is and make a DB myself. They are versatile…can be sweet or savory.
I had my first Dutch Baby last summer, made by a friend on a different island. It was cheddar and I loved it and make it often. This Finnish number is a bit more solid, less light and puffy. The ingredients are virtually the same, just different quantities. You have to try it and tell me what you think!
In Maine’s North Woods near the Canadian border, you’ll also find “ployes,” a thin crepey delight made of buckwheat flour. It originated in Nova Scotia and is quite popular in New Brunswick-Northern Maine. The annual Ploye Festival in Fort Kent is coming right up!
After a few days of unmitigated fashion agony, when my clothes are just too brown or too corduroy, it all blows over and it’s summer—flowered-cotton, crazy-colored summer.
Spring clothes in the Northeast….never understood the concept…one day it’s,winter and then you blink and find yourself in suddenly summer
also, sweet or savory, there’s nothing like a good Dutch baby on a Maine island 🥰
i'm enjoying the lively reader discussion as to this being a Dutch baby--this pancake is a little more solid than a baby. I'll make it for you this summer on another Maine island!
it’s a date
Miss Shrimp! I love it!!
Pancake, popover, flapjack... I love this culinary vocabulary, and it's extraordinary how different the things with the same names are over here in UK!
We have pancakes over here, but they're the size of a large frying pan and very thin, rather than the smaller, thicker ones I've seen on US TV. They don't get stacked, but eaten individually (traditionally on Pancake Day - Shrove Tuesday - sprinkled with lemon juice and sugar and rolled up or folded into quarters). Thicker, smaller pancakes, US-style, if you like, are called either 'drop scones' or 'Scotch pancakes'.
I only know the term 'popover' to mean a blouse that has buttons only halfway down and which you need to pull over your head to put on. There's 'turnover', mind - but that's puff pastry folded over an apple filling into a triangle - like a 'hand pie', I think they're called in US.
Flapjacks are chewy oat bars made from rolled oats, butter, sugar and golden syrup!
I always enjoy your posts, Amie. I'm very, very behind in my Substack reading, but I've been catching up with a whole load of mouthwatering reading treats from Cook and Tell this afternoon. Thank you!
I printed this one to try. It sounds delicious.
I had a feeling it would be on your test list!
This looks so good! I need you to come make it for me though because I am on grandbaby care 40 hours/week and after he leaves I fall asleep until he comes again the next morning.
You're on! I love cooking in other people's kitchens.
The pancake! 😃🤩
I agree that the wardrobe transition can be tricky!
“So, for starters, we had this year’s crop of nine-to-thirteen-year-old girls competing for the coveted title of ‘Miss Shrimp,’” The world lost something when they discontinued the Miss Shrimp contest! Luckily we have this terrific column and a gorgeous strawberry pancake! Just yummy, Amie!
Sweden ruled Finland for something like 600 years, so you’re good.
Thanks for setting the record straight! I should have known, after a year of living in another Nordic country formerly under Swedish rule (Norway). And Denmark? that's another story and have I got a Danish recipe for you!
My oldest granddaughter, who has two young sons, cooked a Mother’s Day brunch. She makes pancakes for the boys every Sunday for breakfast and so she decided to make pancakes a part of the brunch. But, she was having a large group of us and I thought it would be a lot of work for her to be standing at the stove flipping pancakes when she deserved to be celebrated, too. So, I suggested that she make a couple of Dutch Babies instead. “What in the world is a Dutch Baby ??” , she asked. I had only eaten one, but never made one. I could only describe it as a cross between a popover and a crepe and that one made in a 10” cast iron skillet could feed four people and that you could fill it with fresh berries or 10x sugar or syrup & butter. Whatever! She got right on it and found a recipe and made 4 gigantic ones for “the brunch”. Now, the boys don’t want pancakes anymore…they want a big Dutch Baby!! My granddaughter hasn’t stopped thanking me for the suggestion. Guess I’ll have to put my money where my mouth is and make a DB myself. They are versatile…can be sweet or savory.
I had my first Dutch Baby last summer, made by a friend on a different island. It was cheddar and I loved it and make it often. This Finnish number is a bit more solid, less light and puffy. The ingredients are virtually the same, just different quantities. You have to try it and tell me what you think!
Drop scones! That’s a new one for me, Rebecca.
In Maine’s North Woods near the Canadian border, you’ll also find “ployes,” a thin crepey delight made of buckwheat flour. It originated in Nova Scotia and is quite popular in New Brunswick-Northern Maine. The annual Ploye Festival in Fort Kent is coming right up!
I want to enter the Miss Shrimp contest - surely someone could reinstate it? I'll fly over!
I love that there was a Miss Shrimp contest, at least I think I do. Pancake recipe sounds quite good.