On Sat, 05 May 2007 12:28:14 -0400, in rec.food.cooking, Dave Smith wrote:

>
>Doug Weller wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 02 May 2007 12:55:05 -0400, in rec.food.cooking, Dave Smith wrote:
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>> >
>> >Pancake mixes are a pet peeve of mine. Most of them require that you add
>> >milk, eggs and oil, the expensive ingredients, while the mix is just the
>> >keep ingredients, all inexpensive kitchen staples. They always seem to have
>> >a weird taste.
>>
>> Try Krusteaze, you just add water (or beer, or whatever takes your fancy)
>> and they are delicious.
>
>They may be quite tasty, even though they contain powdered eggs, powdered
>milk and who knows what for the fat, but I doubt they compare to pancakes
>made from scratch. It takes less time for me to make up a batch of pancake
>batter from scratch than it does to heat the pan. From my experience,
>there is always a funny taste to pancake mixes.
>
They are fast and don't require having eggs in the house.

Still, if someone can give me a recipe that tastes the same I'd like to
try it. So far I haven't found one.
Doug
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