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Sunday Pancakes. How traditional is that? Pancakes and oven-cooked bacon... it's what makes the men in my life very happy. I can't recall the last time I used boxed mixes to make pancakes. Homemade/scratch pancakes are really quite easy to make. I've posted a few pancakes recipes, in the last two years-- Buttermilk pancakes, German pancakes, Oatmeal Cookie Pancakes and Peach & Walnut Oatmeal Pancakes. They're all great recipes! Still, my son kept telling me how someone he knows makes "the fluffiest pancakes ever". Them's fightin' words, for a momma who wants to please her grown son!
I recently renewed my membership to the Cooking Club of America. I'm not getting paid to promote them, but I have to say that the $15.00 a year…
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