Sharing the Secret Recipe of Finnish Pancakes

Sleeping Giant - The most famous landmark of Thunder Bay, Ontario

Our family's house in Thunder Bay 40 years ago

 

 

 

Our family has deep roots in Thunder Bay as we landed there more than forty years ago. Thunder Bay is a northern city in Ontario about sixteen hour drive from Toronto. 

 

 

 

 

 

It has a population with a little more than 100,000.00 people for the past four decades. It is also a city with the largest concentration of immigrants from Finland in Canada.

 

 

 

Hoito - Our favourite Finnsh Restaurant in Thunder Bay

 

 

Some of us learned to love and enjoy what the Finns enjoy, i.e. Finnish food such as Suolakala sandwich ( salt fish sandwich), Finnish pancakes and their famous Finnish sauna bath!

 

 

Jordon preparing the pancakes

A few  weeks ago, our big fat family had a brunch event attended by about thirty family members with each family bringing something to compliment the delicious Finnish pancakes prepared by Jordon - our nephew,  and his girl friend, Melody who visited Thunder Bay recently.

Jordon is a modern version of the Renaissance man, an engineer by training, but has keen interest and excels in many areas of life such as cooking, photography; he is also a blogger writing on various interesting topics such as science, technology, cooking and travel etc.

Yummmmmy Finnish Pancakes!

His Finnish pancakes served on our family brunch day were just delicious! Many of us asked for the recipe and he was generous enough to share it in his blog. 

 

 

Finnish pancakes topped with apples and avocados

If you would like to read more about Finnish Pancakes and how to make them, please follow this link to Jordon's blog to learn more.

  http://jordanluiuw.blogspot.ca/2015/09/finn-pancakes-and-family-fun.html

 

 

Here is Jordon's recipe for the Finnish Pancake:   

Ingredients

• 6 eggs
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 3 cups milk
• 1.5 cups flour
• Butter

Directions

1. Combine eggs, sugar, milk, and flour in a mixing bowl, mixer, or blender
2. Heat a frying pan to medium high heat (regular steel pan is preferred, although non-stick works as well)
3. When the pan is hot, put a small amount of butter (about half a teaspoon) in the pan and spread it around
4. Gently pour a thin layer of batter onto the pan, letting it spread out thinly
5. When bubbles are forming on the pancake, gently lift the edges of the pancake with the spatula to free it from the pan. Flip it and then cook another 30 seconds to a minute. Because each pan is a different temperature, it's best to just lift an edge of the pancake and see how brown it is.
6. Serve and enjoy! Makes about 15 pancakes.

I know I will be busy trying my hands making these delicious pancakes this weekend!

R.T.
Toronto