June 28, 2005
The 16th "secret of raw materials of pancake" | 
What do you use at time to make pancake? That's right! We combine "wheat flour" "egg" "sugar" and make.
Generally, when we make pancake, we make using "pancake mix", but sweetness such as sugar, flavored with milk, baking powder letting you be fluffy are combined let alone "wheat flour" in this. In addition, we are not known unexpectedly, but salt, oil and fat (shortening) are combined, too.
Then what kind of position wario does these material show to pancake?
| Wheat flour | | | It becomes the body of pancake. Quantity, quality have a big influence on the finish of pancake. Of course, as for the powder which there are three types of "hard flour" "medium flour" "soft flour" in wheat flour, and is used for pancake, general "soft flour". | | | Egg | | | By stirring in mixer, arrange smooth air bubbles. Because there is property to be made up by heating up, egg is doing duty to give shape retention characteristics, humidity retention characteristics. We usually use all eggs. | | | Saccharide | | | There are sugar, grape sugar, but we acquire sweetness and give quiet humidity retention characteristics. In addition, it is power of saccharide to bake in moderate light brown brown. | | | Dairy product | | | We widen width of taste. We use milk and skimmilk powder, skim milk. We let dough moisten and make melting better. | | | Oil and fat | | | We let dough moisten, and melting improves, but what we put too much is prohibited, and swelling gets worse. | | | Flavor | | | We season pancake variously. It becomes powder-like flavor without this. However, it becomes like medicine when we put adversely too much. Appropriate amount is important. | | | Baking powder | | | Because moisture and heat increase, we produce gas and blow up pancake by the power. It is power of bubble of baking powder to become plump texture. But we do not fully follow volume if we use a lot. On the contrary, it becomes just bitter. | | Materials of pancake form in combination quantity and raw materials expecting such an effect.
If there are any opportunities when you can eat pancake, please taste harmony of raw materials. |
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