Pear and cinnamon pancakes

Today, another variation on breakfast pancakes. It’s practically a tradition now that on one day of the weekend, Ninka and I have pancakes or crêpes for breakfast. Today’s were only a little different, really: very delicate, tender and full of pear flavour. Ninka really liked them, and generally, making these breakfast pancakes is a bit of an improvisation for me every time.

Of course, the pear pancake recipe gives quantities for each ingredient, but it’s fun to experiment a little yourself sometimes. Give it a try.

We had a fairly active weekend overall. All thanks to Ninka, who gets very bored if things aren’t active. Yesterday, we went to the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, and honestly, the thing she enjoyed most was filling in the questionnaire evaluating the museum 🙂 See for yourselves:

Someone at that museum is in for a surprise, oh yes. And Galeria Ursynów, hehehe. My darling girl. Honestly, I didn’t help her at all.

POLIN is a very striking museum; it certainly makes quite an impression. But we were there for an initial look around. My seven-year-old daughter isn’t yet “ready” for a visit with a full understanding of what she’s seeing. Still, she was very pleased, although towards the end (especially from the Holocaust period onwards) she insisted we speed up.

Today, in turn, we went to the Lalka theatre. I really recommend “Little Red Riding Hood”. Great fun, with the children helping create the plot and… the scenery. I hadn’t expected it to be so enjoyable; we’d chosen the play rather by chance. But if you have any doubts that it’s an overdone story, you’ll really be surprised. Highly recommended. Just like these delicate, tender pear pancakes, which make an ideal “foundation” before the play (we went at 12.00).

PS

To round off the weekend — or rather, to start it — there was “Cinderella”. I was a bit taken aback when I saw at the end who had directed the film. Do you know? Well, the first person to answer in a comment can look forward to… What would you like?

Recipe facts:

Preparation time: 20 minutes

Serves: 3 – 4 people

Calories: unhappy people don’t count calories either

Ingredients for pear pancakes:

• 5 heaped tablespoons of plain wheat flour
• 1 hen’s egg
• 1 teaspoon of sugar
• 2 pinches of salt
• 1 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda
• 1 glass of kefir
• half a glass of water
• 2 teaspoons of cinnamon
• 1 pear (a fairly large one)
• 50 grams of butter

Recipe for pancakes with pears, cinnamon and extras:

I melted the butter in a frying pan and set it aside to cool a little.

I put the flour, bicarbonate of soda, salt, sugar and cinnamon in a bowl. I mixed them. I cracked in the egg and mixed thoroughly again. Then I added the kefir and water. I mixed it (the batter shouldn’t be too runny, but it shouldn’t be thick either). I added the butter, followed by the pear, cut into small dice. I mixed it.

I cooked this batter as small pancakes in a crêpe pan (without fat). Roughly a minute on each side. Cooking all the pancakes from this amount of batter will take no more than 20 – 30 minutes.

I served them with creamy twaróg curd cheese, honey and blueberries. Enjoy!