Potluck Supper

[twilightpony]

We're having a potluck supper at Sweet Apple Acres tonight. Well, I expect Pinkie to have dessert covered, so I decided to go with a Canterlot dish -- Buckwheat and alfalfa sprout pancake rolls with hot and sour orange sauce. To make sure I didn't ruin the cooking, I read out the recipe and Spike did the cooking. He's an ace in the kitchen. He made me repeat that four times, the attention sponge. And I nixed the tourmaline sprinkles, except for his plate.

Time to trot! It's all cooked and packed and we're heading out the door. Potluck suppers are fun!

Comments

[schnee]

Oh, those pancakes sound lovely! Could you be persuaded to share the recipe?

Recipe

[twilightpony]

Buckwheat and Alfalfa Sprout Pancake Rolls With Hot and Sour Orange Sauce (serves seven to ten):

Prepare Alfalfa Sprout Pancake Rolls.
Prepare Hot and Sour Orange Sauce.

Serve cool.

Served cool on a plate with a splash or artful dribble of spicy orange sauce, these delightful soft aromatic rolls with their watery, delicately crisp interiors are sure to please your dinner guests.



Buckwheat Pancakes (makes eight to ten pancakes):

Ingredients.

3 tea cups of wheat flour, finely milled.
3 tea cups of buckwheat flour.
2 heaping tea spoons of baking powder
3 soup spoons of sugar
1 tea spoon of salt
1 egg
3 soup spoon of melted butter
7 tea cups of milk

Put the butter into a frying pan and start heating it. This will melt the butter and also coat the frying pan and prepare it for cooking the pancakes.
Sift all the dry ingredients (flours, baking powder, sugar and salt) into a large bowl and stir.
In another bowl, beat the egg lightly, throw away the egg shell (or feed it to Spike!), then stir in the melted butter. Next, stir in the milk.
Pour the liquid mixture into dry mixture and stir. Stop when the mix is runny and lumpy throughout. Have more milk on the ready if this batter is not runny enough.
When the pan is just sizzling hot, pour in one ladle of pancake batter and wait for bubbles to appear and start to burst. Use a spatula to flip the pancakes, even if you are an ace chef (that one on the ceiling is yours, Spike).
When done, the pancake should be a mottled golden brown on both sides. Adjust the temperature of the frying pan to cook fast without burning the pancakes.
For pancake rolls, you can get a thinner pancake by adding more milk to the batter. This also makes two to three more pancakes.



Alfalfa Sprout Pancake Rolls

Ingredients.

10 hoof and a half sized warm thin pancakes
5 tea cups of fresh washed alfalfa sprouts
10 toothpicks

Prepare: Pancakes. (May be substituted: other pancakes, such as Buckwheat , Jennycakes and Oatmeal.)
While the pancakes are warm and flexible, on each pancake add a half tea cup of alfalfa sprouts, roll the pancake into a tight cylinder with the alfalfa on the inside, and secure the roll by piercing it through and through with a toothpick.
Serve with: Hot and Sour Orange sauce, Peanut sauce, Peppermint sauce or Flambé.



Hot and Sour Orange Sauce

Ingredients.

1 tea cup water
1 tea spoon sugar
2 soup spoons fine ground orange peel
1 half tea spoon salt
1 half tea cup lemon juice
1 tea spoon hot sauce
1 soup spoon coriander
1 tea spoon arrowroot powder

In a small pot, combine the water with the sugar, stirring to dissolve the sugar. Heat to a low simmer, then add the orange peel and salt, stirring to dissolve the salt.
Simmer and stir 5 minutes.
Remove from heat, add lemon juice, hot sauce and stir while cooling until warm to the touch.
Stir in the cilantro and arrowroot while warm and serve at room temperature.

Re: Recipe

[schnee]

Thank you!

Re: Recipe

[twilightpony]

You're welcome! Are you going to try and cook that dish? You're omnivores with a very wide diet, you could probably digest most of it, as long as none of the ingredients are poisonous to you.

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[schnee]

I may well — I'm not much of a cook, but it would be fun. Finding alfalfa sprouts might not be so easy, but perhaps I could substitute something a little more common for these (any suggestions on what might work?). Same for arrowroot; I think I've never seen or heard of a recipe using that before.

Re: Recipe

[twilightpony]

Well, I was thinking of replacing the alfalfa sprouts with pine nuts, but it was a toss up between 'crunchy texture' and 'crisp and watery'. I went with crisp and watery. You could try celery sticks, cut to resemble toothpicks, but I think it's winter on Earth too, so no celery.

Arrowroot (Sagittaria species) is a thickener. It grows in marshy areas along the river and in Froggy Bottom Bog. Maybe you could look up a stock or soup thickener? I have a big day tomorrow in Canterlot, I really need to double check my check list.

[flareblitzfury]

Nice! Sounds delicious! Spike sure does love his attention!

Fun with food! That's how I've always seen cooking!

[twilightpony]

Somehow, when I cook something, it doesn't taste like what Spike makes.

[flareblitzfury]

Maybe he does some special things that only he knows about.

[twilightpony]

I think he doesn't get distracted as easily as I do. If he does "special things" to the food, maybe it's better I don't know what it is! Did I mention he ate the egg shells?

[flareblitzfury]

Yeah, that sounds like a good call! Wait, he ate the egg shells? Interesting!

[twilightpony]

Sometimes he'll eat food ponies have thrown out. Once Pinkie and Applejack messed up a recipe for muffins and got half the town sick. He ate those too.

[flareblitzfury]

Wow! He must have one strong stomach!