It is truly the chef’s secret ingredient as we say! We used a mixer. This gives our pancakes their delicious flavour. The black substance you see in the picture is the vanilla (seeds) which we added to the pancake mix. ![]() While the inside of the vanilla bean consists of seeds just like the inside of any regular bean, the name ‘vanilla bean’ is definitely appropriate. You may wonder what the black substance is and why there are these round shapes when you look closely: the black substance is actually vanilla seeds. My father has scraped the dark substance off the vanilla bean here. The dark substance is what will be added to the pancake mix. Vanilla is the chef’s secret ingredient as we say in Dutch. Here you can see my father handling the fresh vanilla. We poured the milk into the bowl which we were using. ![]() We used this ecological milk for the pancake mix. We do not drink alcohol at all, but we only use it for cooking. We used a special Surinamian rum in the pancake mix. Two eggs have been added to the pancake mix. Some acorn flour, which is our special ingredient for this pancake mix, has been added as you can see. We regard acorn flour as a homemade vitamin powder because acorn flour contains a lot of healthy vitamins just like rose hip powder. This is the inside of the bucket with acorn flour. The bucket is meant to last a year until next autumn. Making this much acorn flour was a huge ordeal. The picture may give you an impression of the size of the bucket. Normal flour which we prepared for making the pancake mix. We ran out of elderberry syrup towards the year’s end, but we still have acorn flour and so we can still produce acorn pancakes or cookies whenever we so desire. I think that adding homemade acorn flour and adding homemade elderberry syrup were our best 2020 pancake mix ideas for 2020. We used different mixes this year and sometimes we also added our homemade elderberry syrup instead of acorn flour to the pancake mix, which produced delicious sweet pancakes with a light elderberry flavour. We experimented with the proportions and found the right approximate proportions after a few times of trying. We mixed the acorn flour with normal flour just like we did in 2019 for making cookies. We observed many Dutch people were making pancakes this year that has been defined by various responses to the pandemic. However, unlike last year, we decided to use our acorn flour this year for making pancakes. So we picked acorns this year as well to turn them into acorn flour. It was a delightful experience last year, there is really nothing more satisfying than producing your own food. ![]() My father and I picked acorns in Leeuwarden this autumn just like last year when we picked acorns for the very first time, turned them into acorn flour for the first time as well and made acorn cookies using the acorn flour that we had produced ourselves.
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