Tomato Pancakes

* Exported from MasterCook *

Tomato Pancakes

Recipe By : Ophelia Gleason
Serving Size : 1 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Pancakes

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
-------- ------------ --------------------------------
4 eggs -- lightly beaten
1 can stewed or diced tomatoes with liquid -- (14½-oz.) OR
2 cups home-canned tomatoes
40 single soda crackers (saltines) or 20
doubles -- about 4 oz. of crackers -- hand crushed -
not
rolled out
salt -- to taste
butter for frying

Combine the beaten eggs, tomatoes and their liquid, crackers and salt. Shape
into 4-inch pancakes and fry in a small amount of butter (over medium heat
about 2 minutes on each side).

Makes about 12 (4-in.) pancakes.



- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

NOTES :
http://www.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisStory=75734239

This is the pancake recipe that Kathryn Dumas, Long Lake, recalls her
mother, Ophelia Gleason, preparing on wash days. Hand-crushing the crackers
gives the pancakes an interesting nonuniform texture