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Mum's pancakes, served hot with butter and maple syrup
Mum's pancakes, served hot with butter and maple syrup
snaffles


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Challenge: Comfort Food (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Nikon D90
Lens: Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D
Location: Chateau Snaffles
Date: Nov 3, 2012
Aperture: f5.6
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/3
Date Uploaded: Nov 3, 2012

 Having suggested this challenge, I had to enter it! The recipe is my Mum's and though she doesn't use a heart-shaped mould, as I did, they are served up with butter (actually margarine here, in this case) and real sirop d'erable, NOT *table* syrup!!! She actually makes these little pancakes and much larger crepes, but I've always loved the little pancakes.

Recipe: 1 cup all-purpose flour
1 tbsp white sugar
1 egg
1 cup milk
1 tbsp cooking oil
1 tsp baking soda
1 small pinch salt (optional)

Put ingredients in a large mixing bowl and beat until all ingredients are well mixed. Lightly grease a frying pan with butter or margarine and heat on medium-high til it's lightly smoking. Spoon batter into frying pan to make approx 3'in rounds. Flip after about a minute and let brown on the other side. Serve hot.

A few extra notes. I doubled this recipe, used large eggs, 2% milk and in this case, olive oil - it was all I had kicking around and worked perfectly well.

Instead of greasing the frying pan with butter or margarine, I cooked up some bacon in the frying pan and poured off almost all of the grease. What little was left was used to cook the pancakes in.

As for the shoot...piled pancakes on a plate, the freshest ones on top. Shot with ambient window light, camera on tripod, then got the butter and maple syrup going....ohh yumm...and used the gold side of my reflector to enhance the tones. Eh wala.

pp: altered RAW, brightness/contrast, vibrance/saturation, crop, clone out stray bits of pancake, burn highlights on butter, resize, sharpen, save for web.

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Nikon D750
Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 35-70mm f/2.8D
 11/11/2012 11:32:28 PM
This gets down to what our eyes home in on and want to gobble up. 7
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D7000
Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8
 11/06/2012 01:36:02 PM
Very nice texture and glossy surface - 7
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D750
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED
 11/06/2012 10:35:12 AM
Heart-shaped pancakes! Yum!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D700
Tokina AT-X 16-50 F/2.8 Pro DX Aspherical
 11/05/2012 10:11:20 PM
Doesn't work as a close-up!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-450D Rebel XSi
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
 11/05/2012 03:54:02 PM
I think the color is somewhat off here. The light is really yellow making the pancakes look a little unappetizing. Also the light should be uch more diffuse. Here you have a lot of specular highlights. Lastly you got a little too close as the shape of the heart is lost.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS R6
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 L Macro IS USM
 11/05/2012 08:10:29 AM
Pancakes are one of the best meals, any time of day :)

The photo itself doesn't seem to show off the delicious nature of pancakes.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
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