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On Jul 30, 5:51 pm, "cybercat" > wrote:
> "Damaeus" > wrote in message
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> ...
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> > Reading from news:rec.food.cooking,
> > Nancy2 > posted:
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> >> > Speaking of which... do you fry your pancakes in oil or butter or
> >> > margarine?
>
> >> > George L.
>
> >> Lard works best. I'd give anything for one of my grandma's flat
> >> pancakes that she fried in lard, so they had a very narrow crispy
> >> ruffly edge around them.
>
> > I get the same result with butter.
>
> Butter browns too quickly. No way.

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>
>Exactly. He/she is not getting the same results with butter as they
>would using lard. I'm thinking he/she thinks because both of them are
>'greasy' they are producing the same results. Ain't gonna happen.

I know this the same way you probably do--by trying to make pancakes when
you have no oil but butter in the house. I love melty butter on pancakes,
but they have to be fried in hot oil.