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PEE DEE RIVER PANCAKE MIX

INGREDIENTS:

1 quart unbleached, un-sifted              1/2 cup sugar
    white flour                                             1 heaping teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt

Combine by stirring well; store in a tightly closed jar under refrigeration until ready to use.  When ready to make pancakes, measure the mix by cupfuls into a bowl.  Each cupful of the dry mix will produce 3 to 4 cakes about 4 inches in diameter.  For each cupful of mix, add:

INGREDIENTS:

1/4 cup undiluted evaporated milk
1/4 cup lukewarm water

Combine the milk and water and stir into the dry ingredients to make a creamy, smooth batter.  Let the batter stand about 10 minutes, then beat vigorously for a minute or two.  Pour enough batter to form cakes 3 to 4 inches in diameter into a greased hot pan, burn when bubbles form on tope, cook the second side until brown.

Recipe from Mel Marshall's Outdoor Cookery.  Recipe from steelhead fishing addicts on the upper reaches of California's Klamath River, where they lived in a little cabin near the town of Orleans.  A dozen or so steelhead addicts turned the cabin into a sort of informal fly fisherman's headquarters, and for several years (Mel Marshall) was a more or less regular member of the group.