Breakfast Fair

Really Easy Welsh Cakes

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2 cups flour
3 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup shortening
1/2 cup white sugar
1 cup raisins or currants or chocolate chips
2 eggs mixed with a small amount of milk

2 tsp vanilla

Mix the dry ingredients, then cut in shortening with a pastry blender. Add raisins, blueberries, chocolate chips.. Beat eggs and vanilla well and stir into dry mixture, adding in enough milk to make the dough soft. Roll out dough on floured surface to 1/4 inch thickness, and cut with cookie cutters or you can make squares like I did. You can cook them on the stove top like pancakes and turn over only once. I put mine on a cookie sheet with parchment paper on it and placed it in the oven at 350 for 10-12 minutes.  Serve warm with butter.  My kids ate them plain with the chocolate chips you don't need to add anything else.

Pancakes

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1 1/3 cups flour

3 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

3 tbs sugar

1 egg

1 1/4 cup milk

3 tblsp vegetable oil

1/4 tsp vanilla

Mix together.  Drop by 1/4 cup fulls on hot pancake griddle or frying pan

Yield 10-12 pancakes

Variations of pancakes

Chocolate Chip pancakes - Make pancake batter as above and add 1/2 cup chocolate chips.

Sour Milk Pancakes - Make pancake batter, using sour milk or buttermilk.  Reduce baking powder to 1 1/2 tsp, add 1 tsp baking soda dissolved in 1 teaspoon warm water.

Blueberry pancakes - Make pancake batter increasing sugar to 1/3 cup.  Reduce milk to 1 cup.  Add 1 cup blueberries.  Cook slower and on lower heat than regular pancakes.

Apple pancakes - Make pancake batter increasing sugar to 1/3 cup.  Reduce milk to 1 cup.  Add 1/4 tsp vanilla. Add 1 cup grated or cut small apples.   1/2 tsp baking soda dissolved in 1 teaspoon warm water Cook slower and on lower heat than regular pancakes.