Mom never made a lot of hot cooked breakfasts for us because she was usually at work on the weekends as an RN before we kids got up. But….breakfast for dinner? Now that’s another story! Mom would pull out that griddle or the waffle iron and my life was sooooo good! As a kid I loved these cornmeal griddle cakes. As an adult they are one of my favorite types, if not THE favorite type of pancake in my whole universe. I can’t say anything as trite as “they complete me,” but well…yea….they kinda do… in a pancake sorta way!
You know….I love having, making and sharing the recipes my Mom made for us, but it’s more than that. So much more than that. They evoke so many memories. Right now, I’m in that kitchen on Berry Road, all of 8 years old seeing my mother with her beautiful curly brown hair, wearing a green gingham cloth apron and standing at her massive old white enamel stove with the center griddle and the huge oven making cornmeal pancakes for her brood which included one spouse, 4 children and her aging, infirm parents. Well, I just made myself cry! But truly, at some point in time, memories are all we have left. I hope yours are good ones.
Now dry ’em off Karen and let’s get busy building Clare’s griddle cakes!
Clare's Cornmeal Apple Griddle Cakes with Homemade Cinnamon Syrup
Ingredients
Dry Ingredients
- 1/2 Cup AP flour
- 1/2 Cup YELLOW corn meal
- 1 TBSP sugar
- 1 Tsp Baking Powder
- 1/2 Tsp Baking Soda
- 1/2 Tsp Salt
Wet Ingredients
- 1 Large Egg
- 1 Cup Sour Milk 1 TBSP Vinegar in 1 Cup milk, let rest for 5 minutes and you have sour milk
- 2 TBSP Vegetable Shortening MELTED!
Finishing Touch
- 1 Small Apple, peeled and pared cut into small dice. About 2/3 cup.
Cinnamon Pancake Syrup
- 1 Cup white sugar
- 1 Cup Brown Sugar
- 1 Cup Light Corn Syrup like "Karo"
- 1 Cup Water
- 1 Tsp Vanilla Extract
- 1/2 Tsp ground Cinnamon
- 1/2 Tsp Butter
Instructions
Dry Ingredients
- In a medium size bowl, combine all the dry ingredients.
Wet Ingredients
- In another bowl beat the Egg with a fork. Add the Sour Milk and the melted Vegetable Shortening and stir until well combined. Then pour the wet mixture into the dry ingredients and stir just until combined. Don't over mix. There should be a few little lumps
Finishing Touch
- Gently stir in the diced apple.
Cook
- Generously grease a large skillet or a griddle if you have one. Pour the batter into the hot skillet. I use about 1/3 cup for each pancake but you have to just eyeball the amount. Cook over medium heat until the tops are covered with bubbles, then flip them over and continue cooking until they are golden brown on the bottom. Serve with butter and warm Cinnamon Syrup.
Cinnamon Pancake Syrup
- In a small saucepan, combine all the ingredients. Bring to a boil, lower the heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and skim off any foam that may be on the top. Let it cool just a bit then pour over your pancakes and prepare to eat way more than you thought you could! ***Save any remaining syrup in a clean glass jar and store in the refrigerator. It will keep for several weeks.
Yummy. I will be making these. I was salivating while reading this.
Hope you like them!
Good to see a tanlet at work. I can’t match that.
I think this could be possible, even for a working person. Provided they plan ahead.I have found that my metabolism has slowed as I age too. To almost non existant. Big change from being able to eat what I want, when I want. It’s definitely a lifestyle change if you want to stay slim.
The olive oil could just be cleansing & detoxing your body as well as giving you good omega fats that you have been deficient in. You also could be lacking probiotics in your diet too… Try getting some kim-chi & sauerkraut in your diet!
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Hey Galen – that’s so great to hear. Glad this helps in the slightest way. Definitely don’t stop, and just make sure you’re aggressively seeking feedback AFTER the website and music are released so you can continually learn and make the next release even better. You’ll be much happier you released it and learned from it then you will just keeping it all to yourself.