Mardi Gras: Shrove Tuesday, Fat Tuesday, who knew it was a day to flip crepes, pancakes, even latkes?
Mardi Gras was the inspiration for this recipe, built on the solid foundation of “Perfect Pancakes” a winning recipe by “sweet enough” found right here on the pages of Food52. Start a morning with flour, butter, blueberries and bourbon and really, how can you go wrong?
In celebration of a Fat Tuesday morning of my own making, I made a batch of melt-in-the-mouth blueberry pancakes, the best I ever tasted - all the while snapping photos for a blog I keep on a social media site called open salon. Can’t say whether it was the effect of the bourbon or a coincidental malfunction of my hard drive when I upgraded the operating system to iCloud, but later that afternoon, my computer crashed and with it I lost the files for the original photos - as well as the recipe I had concocted in the morning. No use crying the blues over spilt batter. Here’s an approximation of that recipe, no doubt an improvement, reconstructed from memory and photographed in an entirely different light.
Turns out, in pancakes, as in life, practice makes perfect.
—Vivian Henoch
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