Sunday Brunch

  It's Been Said that Breakfast is the Most Important Meal of the Day.

   For many years my family has had the tradition of having an elegant brunch every Sunday. Why Sunday? Sunday is a rest day, Genesis 2:2-3 says, “By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.” Because we use Sunday as a rest day, we, therefore, don't have much going on, so we have time to make and eat a big breakfast.

    I normally am one who makes brunch, the staple of which is eggs and bacon. Then, I will also make either waffles, crepes, or pancakes. If I make waffles, we usually have fresh or frozen strawberries and homemade whipped cream as a topping, along with homemade syrup. for crepes, I make a sweet cream cheese filling, and we will fill crepes with fresh or frozen raspberries too. Pancakes on the other hand, are served with plain old maple syrup. Occasionally, if we have bananas, we’ll make banana foster, or if we have apples we’ll dice ‘em up add some brown sugar and cinnamon and melt them together for a fall topping.

    Now, I love to make them all, but which one is easiest? The pancakes, crepes, and waffles aren't difficult to make, but each one gives you a different headache.

    Pancakes, are the easiest, you just mix up the batter and use a third cup to put it on the griddle. Waffles are similarly easy, but making whipped cream and cutting and cleaning fruit is what puts waffles as the second easiest. Crepes are by far the hardest, you have to heat the milk and butter together. Also, the batter is very runny, as it's supposed to be. When you put the batter in a skillet to cook, if you don't spread it around immediately, you end up with a tiny crepe.

Here are the recipes for waffles, pancakes, and crapes:

Waffles:

• 2 Cups milk
• 3 eggs separated
• 1/4 cup melted butter
• 2 cups flour
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• dash of almond extract

Directions: Measure milk, to milk add egg yolks and almond extract. Mix. Beat egg whites in separate bowl until peaks form. combine dry ingredients. Stir milk and egg yolk mixture into dry ingredients.

Mix in butter. Fold in egg whites. bake in waffle iron.

 

Crapes:

• 2 tablespoons butter
• 2 cups milk
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour

Directions: heat milk and butter until butter melts. Add the heated milk butter mixture to a bowl with eggs, vanilla, sugar, and salt, whisk until smooth. Add flour, whisk until smooth. to cook pour 1/4 cup of batter onto heated pan, cook until golden brown, flip and do the same with the other side. Serve crapes filled with whipped cream and favorite berry.

Pancakes:

• 1 cup flour
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 1 egg
• 3/4 cup milk
• 1/4 cup melted butter

Directions: Combine dry ingredients. Combine wet ingredients.  mix the two together. Pour 1/3 cup of batter onto hot griddle. Brown both sides. Serve with maple syrup.

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