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The end is near
End of the year , that is. Judy and I would like to thank all of you for your continuing support and business, and would like to wish you and yours a very happy and safe Holiday Season. Learned a little trick recently. I took a bag of our gourmet Gingerbread pancake mix and replaced…
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Upcoming events
This Saturday Nov. 5th we will be participating in the annual Sparta craft fair at the Sparta high school from 9:00am until 5:00pm. We will be sampling two of our gourmet pancake mixes, Cinnamon and Angel Cakes. We will also be featuring our sample box of four different mixes in a shipable box and/or gift…
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Look who bought our mix!
Guess what? Saturday, at the Dos show in Chicago, a world famous chef, and I am not talking from some cooking show, by the name of Grant Achatz bought a bag of Angel Cakes gourmet pancake mix from the Great American Pancake Co. at the Buckshot Sonny’s Sporting Goods booth. Is that cool? His wife…
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Weekend in Onalaska
We spent the last two days at the annual Onalaska Craft Show. We had a show just slighty better than the previous year, however the attendance was down considerably. The weather was just too nice!! Our gourmet pancakes continue to be a very much sought after item both for personal use and as gifts. Our…
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corn on the cob
First corn of the year tonight. Got it at the Amish auction. Far beyond my expectations for the year’s first. Also fixed Kung Pao Chicken. Quite a combo, huh? Berries and melons are plentiful and we got our usual 1/2 bushel of Georgia peaches. We are in heaven. I made a cobbler using gingerbread pancake…
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brown rice flour pancake
Some of you no doubt saw that we had a “gluten free” pancake mix available briefly. We have been advised that unless we can guarantee beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no and I mean NO gluten in the mix, that we cannot represent the product as “gluten-free”. We of course cannot…
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Cinnamon Bread
Made a quick bread yesterday using cinnamon pancake mix. Pretty good! Two cups of pancake mix, 1 1/4 cups of water 1 egg 2 T melted butter 1/3 cup of cinnamon chips Mix it, let it stand for 5-10minutes, bake @ 350 for 45 minutes, (I sprinkled a few more chips on the top) allow…
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Peach Cobbler
I forgot to tell you!! The peach cobbler was very good. It came out looking totally different from what I expected. Next I am going to make one with strawberries ( I have one 4 cup bag frozen from last summer) using Angel Cake pancake mix, and make it same way as I did with…
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Peach Cobbler
The response from the article in “The Country Today” has been great! Many orders and lots of nice comments. I had an idea today about another use for pancake batter. I had some peaches that we had frozen last summer and I wanted to use them up to make way for some meat we have…
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Interview with “The Country Today”
I see it has been a while since my last entry. We were interviewed today by Megan Parker who writes for “The Country Today”, a weekly paper that covers Eastern Minnesota and all of Wisconsin, primarily with stories about rural life, farming and buying local, all subjects that are dear to my heart. It was…
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