Pancake flour

Pancakes are considered an indispensable attribute of the Russian national culinary tradition. Such a dish as pancakes from ancient times was customary to cook both on special occasions and holidays, and to use in the daily diet. We think that many domestic hostesses traditionally bake pancakes on Maslenitsa, which are also an old Russian symbol of the sun.

Pancakes in cooking mean a food product that is made from batter, which is placed in a pan and fried. As mentioned earlier, the correct rounded shape of pancakes is no coincidence and symbolizes the heavenly luminary that our ancestors worshipped. But the shape and color of pancakes really resembles the sun.

Pancakes are served to the table as a stand-alone dish. In addition, pancakes are stuffed with various fillings, and the product is also used as a filling in the preparation of stuffed fish, as well as poultry. Researchers claim that pancakes can be chaldly attributed to one of the most ancient culinary products that people began to cook back in the prehistoric period of the development of human civilization.

In the national culinary traditions of many peoples, you can easily find recipes for different types of pancakes. For example, in France, thin pancakes are especially popular, which are fried, usually only on one side and stuffed with both sweet and meat or fish fillings. Pancakes are baked in Europe, as well as in Asia, Africa and the Americas.

Usually, for stuffing pancakes, such types of filling are used as: meat or fish mince, as well as vegetables, fish caviar, mushrooms, chicken eggs, cheese, fruits, berries, condensed milk, honey, chocolate, caramel, sour cream, and so on. For baking pancakes, both hand-made batter and a ready-made dry mixture or, so-called pancake flour are used.

Pancake flour composition

Pancake flour is a ready-made culinary mixture that is used to make pancakes. Pancake flour contains almost the same ingredients that hostesses use to make batter. However, in the composition of pancake flour, egg powder is used instead of fresh chicken eggs. In addition, salt, sugar, baking powder and dry milk whey are added to pancake flour in addition to wheat flour and egg powder.

In order to end up with delicious pancakes from pancake flour, manufacturers of ready-made culinary mixtures use high-quality wheat flour, and always whole-ground. It is believed that ordinary refined prime grade wheat flour does not produce such excellent results. The use of pancake flour significantly reduces the time spent by the mistress on making pancakes.