Ever struggle to use left-over pancakes? They tend to just languish in my refrigerator (if I don’t immediately toss them). There actually are lots of ways to use them. Here’s two suggestions in a hundred-year-old magazine:
Other Ways to Use Cold Pancakes
“I use them,” writes our correspondent, “in two ways. First, after they are quite cold I cut them into very thick strips, like noodles, with a very sharp knife, put them in the soup tureen, and pour over them a well-seasoned beef broth. This makes, when served at once, a very good soup. My second way is to make them into a dessert. The cold cakes are spread with a mixture of sugar, ground cinnamon, and raisins, each pancake is rolled with the mixture inside, and they are placed in a baking dish in a row, and quite close to one another, milk is poured over almost to cover them, and then they are put in the oven and baked. This makes a very good pudding, not unlike a bread pudding.”
American Cookery (June/July, 1924)
Pancake pudding is ingenious! I save leftover pancakes and reheat them in the microwave. Maybe I’m the only one who ate the leftovers. I don’t remember.
I’m with you. I generally just reheat left-over pancakes rather than coming up with creative ideas for using them.
I would go for the pancake pudding, too, but pass on those “noodles”.
Somehow I don’t think that I will ever get around to making pancake noodles.
Leftover pancakes?!?! I’ve never had leftover pancakes… The men in the family gobble them as soon as I make them and don’t stop until all of them are gone! (I’ve learned to reserve a couple for myself or I don’t get any!)
I do sometimes end up with extra pancakes – especially when children and grandchildren are visiting. I don’t have much of a sense of how many pancakes the various individuals will eat, and want to be sure that I have enough so often end up making more than needed.
Leftover pancakes? I don’t understand. What are they?
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I just eat them. Less work.
Similarly to you, I just reheat any left-over pancakes and eat them.
I like the idea of the pancake pudding, but I have to agree with others, what are leftover pancakes?
I’m intrigued by the idea of the pancake pudding. It sounds tasty.
l eat them cold with jelly. If there are any left.
I’ll have to try them cold with jelly. I’ve always reheated first.
Leftover pancakes not in my house…pancake pudding sounds like a plan if I ever did but the noodles are a definite no no 🙂
Until I read the old magazine, I never would have thought about making a pudding using left-over pancakes, but it sounds yummy.
I’d have to agree – leftover pancakes? 🙂 Not that i make them these days but they do make a wonderful ‘cake’. Layered with cream and/or chocolate spread and baked.
cheers
sherry We loved Belgium years ago! Even tho it’s not trendy :=)
cheers
sherry
mmm. . . pancake “cake” sound delightful.
Please ignore the bit about Belgium!! I have no idea how that got there as it was on a completely different blog and blog post!!
sherry
🙂 Sounds like something I’d do.
Gotta love the air fryer for reheating pancakes!!!
But I prefer waffles…. great to reheat in toaster.
I do not think of much of anything as “leftovers” in my house I call them “Plan a-heads”
Great suggestion to reheat waffles in the toaster. I’d never thought about doing that.
Thanks to my husband, there are never any left over pancakes!!