This week: Best pancake and waffle recipes, fall/autumn cookbook previews, and more

Soon in the northern hemisphere, many will begin the search for grilling and other warm weather-related recipes. For me, at least for a few more weeks, I am indulging myself and our members in comfort food. I am so not a summer person, give me the crisp cool days of autumn or the blistery winds of winter and I’m content. If ever there was a time for comfort food, it is now.

Pancake recipes have myriad variations from savory to sweet, from scallion pancakes to potato pancakes. For purposes of this roundup, I will focus on breakfast/brunch pancakes. EYB has 5,522 pancake recipes in our library (online recipes) with versions that range from sour cream, blueberry, chocolate chip, buttermilk, and Ebelskivers. If you don’t own an Ebelskiver pan, (UK link) rectify that immediately and start indulging in these fluffy Danish pancakes for breakfast, brunch, or dessert. They are a breeze to make – once you get the flipping under control – and provide a definite wow factor (have two chopsticks or skewers handy to aid in flipping these delightful treats).

When talking pancakes, my personal favorite recipes are the Simply perfect pancakes from King Arthur and Smitten Kitchen’s Oatmeal pancakes. I am team fluffy pancake with crisp edges drizzled in maple syrup and I love the texture and flavor of an oatmeal pancake.

There are 2,266 waffle recipes (online recipes) (in the breakfast/brunch category). Waffles are just as versatile as their cousin the pancake. Some cooks prefer yeasted waffles, while others prefer Belgian waffles or a classic waffle. Let us not forget the Liege waffles made with pearl sugar and take some effort. Wikipedia has a great article outlining waffles from around the world as does the tripzilla site.

My all-time favorite recipe (and I’ve tried many) is the Lighter-Than-Air Waffles from the Saint Louis Days, Saint Louis Nights: A Culinary Tour of the Gateway City book. I am not one for community cookbooks normally, but this book (I was born and raised near St. Louis) is a treasure trove of fantastic recipes. We are sharing this waffle recipe with you because we all need a fantastic crispy waffle recipe in our arsenal.

Lighter-than-air waffles: Yield 10 to 12 waffles

• 2 cups sifted flour with a dash of salt
• 3 eggs
• 3 cups milk
• 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter melted
• 4 tablespoons baking powder

Put flour and salt in a bowl. Make a hole in flour mound. In a separate bowl, mix eggs and milk. Pour into flour, add melted butter, mix well. Just before baking, add baking powder; mix barely, the batter will rise. Cook in waffle iron according to manufacturer’s directions. Serve immediately.

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Our members’ favorite pancake/waffle books include:

• Pancakes: From Morning to Midnight by Dorie Greenspan
• Ebelskivers: Danish-Style Filled Pancakes and Other Sweet and Savory Treats by Kevin Crafts
• Waffles from Morning to Midnight by Dorie Greenspan
• Breakfast cookbooks (sorted by popularity)

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Featured Recently Indexed Cookbooks

• Wings and Things: Lip-Smacking Chicken Recipes by Ben Ford
• Isolation Baking: Recipes from My (Post) Confinement Kitchen by Jamie Schler Jamie’s book is available on EYB, fully indexed. Add this title to your bookshelf now. To find out more about how you can help support the author’s hotel, please see this post.
• Masala: Indian Cooking for Modern Living by Mallika Basu
• Magnolia Table, Volume 2: A Collection of Recipes for Gathering by Joanna Gaines
• The Vegetarian Silver Spoon: Classic and Contemporary Italian Recipes by The Silver Spoon Kitchen
• Charred: The Complete Guide to Vegetarian Grilling and Barbecue by Genevieve Taylor
• Cooking on a Bootstrap: Over 100 Simple Budget Recipes by Jack Monroe
• The Complete Milk Street TV Show Cookbook (2017-2019): Every Recipe from Every Episode of the Popular TV Show by Christopher Kimball

This Week on our Blog

Since our last roundup, Darcie has written articles entitled: Grocery prices are on the rise, Steve Sando is busy, but still cooking, Bakers weigh in on their favorite tools, and The list of restaurants permanently closed continues to grow. Darcie’s weekly food news antipasto is shared every Sunday #foodnews brings up these information-packed posts).

This week I shared a preview of non-baking related cookbooks that will be published later this year. For baking related titles: see Let Them Eat Cake which shares a look at baking/cake specific books and for pie see this post pie cookbooks. Linked within those #previews is the lengthy 2020 outline of scheduled releases. Also, do not forget to check out which cookbooks are on sale in Kindle post.

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Member Photo of the Week

Asparagus almondine from Dinner in French: My Recipes by Way of France by Melissa Clark submitted by member shylastrath

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Featured Online Recipe

Moka Dupont: a French icebox cake from The New York Times Cooking by Dorie Greenspan

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EYBDigital Previews

Recently we uploaded our 660th EYBDigital Preview where a selection of full sample pages is available for the following cookbooks.

Learn more about EYBDigital Previews.

Note: To learn why you cannot add all EYBDigital Preview recipes to your Bookshelf, please read this Help page.

• 3 recipes from Welcome to Buttermilk Kitchen by Suzanne Vizethann
• 3 recipes from The Ultimate Keto Cookbook: 270+ Recipes for Incredible Low-Carb Meals by Brittany Angell
• 3 recipes from Home Charcuterie: How to Make Your Own Bacon, Sausages, Salami and Other Cured Meats by Paul Thomas
• 3 recipes from Tasty Pride: 75 Recipes and Stories from the Queer Food Community by Tasty

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Cookbook Giveaways

• Enter our US giveaway to win one of three copies of Procrastibaking: 100 Recipes for Getting Nothing Done in the Most Delicious Way Possible by Erin Gardner. One grand prize winner will receive a selection of baking products from Anolon. Expires June 14th, 2020.
• Enter our US giveaway to win one of three copies of The Outdoor Kitchen: Live-Fire Cooking from the Grill by Eric Werner and Nils Bernstein. Expires June 15th, 2020.

*Please note due to the pandemic, promotions are extended until publishers are back in their offices, and warehouses are available to resume the shipment of books. The cookbook giveaway roundup shares all current giveaways.

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