Applesauce Pancake Recipe!

 

It has been an apple-y time of year! Last week I was processing apples Monday through Friday. I froze 19 bags of applesauce. There is about 2 quarts in each freezer bag.

We like applesauce plain but also in treats like Applesauce Cake and Applesauce Pancakes.

(Follow this link for my favorite Applesauce Cake recipe.)

Applesauce Pancakes 

3 cups flour

1 Tbsp.+1 tsp. baking powder 

1 tsp. salt

2 Tbsp. sugar 

1/2 tsp. cinnamon

1 cup milk
2 eggs
1/4 oil
2 cups applesauce 

Combine dry ingredients in a mixing bowl.

Combine milk, eggs, and oil in a 2 cup liquid measurer. 

Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients along with the applesauce.

Mix until nearly smooth.

Cook on a hot skillet or griddle as normal pancakes.

Enjoy!

Pecans!

 

I was so surprised and delighted to find this pecan tree down our lane. It is not on our property but it is close to the road on an empty lot.

When I was a young girl my family would travel to Arkansas just about every October to visit my Great Uncle Tony. Down the street from his house stood a big old pecan tree in a Church yard. Uncle Tony knew the people who attended church there. He said they wouldn't mind if we collected the pecans. 

There were so many pecans on the ground. We'd fill a couple grocery sacks in a few minutes and bring them back north to enjoy for a couple weeks.

It was a special memory. Pecans were a rare treat.

I knew there was a variety of pecan that grows this far north but I had never seen one nor did I expect to. 

I could hardly believe my eyes when, as we drove by one day, I looked out at the nut clusters on this tree and thought, "Those look like pecans. Can it be?"

Yes, it can be! I walked over with the children and we picked up a few handfuls. We cracked them and enjoyed them. What a treat!