My tried-and-tested pancake recipe:

2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup rolled oats
3 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1-2 tablespoons brown sugar (depending on desired sweetness)
1 tablespoon of maple syrup
1 3/4 cups milk (I use Vanilla-flavored soy milk)
1 egg
2 tablespoons light olive oil
1 tsp each of nutmeg and cinnamon

Mix dry and wet ingredients seperately, then whisk together until lump-free, let stand until thickened, and then cook on medium heat. After about 30 seconds in the pan I add some sort of fruit combination into the pancake including blueberry, raspberry, pineapple, strawberry, apple, etc. I then cover the fruit with some more batter. Blueberry & pineapple is an especially delicious combo. Cook until golden on each side, then top with maple syrup or whipped cream (or both).

Ingredients for about 12 small pancakes: (from foodwishes site, for the video)
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon white sugar
1 1/4 cups milk
1 egg
3 tablespoons butter, melted

@visionep I come from a farm family in Kansas, so I'm a bit biased, but I tend to disagree with you on a few things. So upvote for your comment starting the discussion but here's my rebuttal --

1. "Not much" has the potential to be pretty good, considering that sources of ethanol are much more renewable than oil. Plus, a lot of the energy balance reviews of ethanol that I've seen or heard of talk about the input cost to produce the first gallon of fuel, ie. they include construction, fermentation tanks, etc. etc. That is fair, but it is worth noting that over the long term those startup input costs become less and less of a factor because the infrastructure already exists. The cost to refine the first gallon of crude oil into gasoline was higher than the bazillionth, also.

2. Some of the food production competition will remain long-term, and some is temporary. Right now in the US, we mostly use corn (field corn) to produce ethanol. Field corn can be ground into corn flour, but at least where I come from the majority of it went to feed lots to be used as food for beef cows prior to introduction of ethanol plants. Now, the produced corn is split between going to beef production or into ethanol.

Competition between beef vs. ethanol industries raised the price of corn some (both industries want that corn) which makes farmers happy. That in turn raised the price of beef a bit, but it didn't do much to prices for human-consumption food other than that, because field corn isn't used for that very much.

The reason that we use corn for ethanol now is that corn is plentiful; it is the major crop in my neck of the woods with wheat being the second but lagging far behind. Ethanol producers need something that ferments, corn fits the bill and is available. Minor crops like milo work basically just as well as corn, so if some weather event damages a corn field and it can be replanted with milo later in the season that is great for farmers because they now have a buyer that is willing to take milo.

In the future, we could use non-food cellulose crops like switchgrass for ethanol production, and the processing will only be slightly different. Switchgrass could be grown and harvested on land that is unsuitable for corn (corn does best with a lot of water), but there isn't a large supply of it right now because there hasn't been any demand for it historically.

So yes, there will always be some competition between what crop people decide to produce on a given piece of farmland, and that can affect food prices. But I think that over the long term, ethanol production could provide useful fuel that has positive benefits that outweigh impacts from potentially slightly higher food prices. Maybe. But then again, I am a biased source!

Would be better if I could actually read the directions... how many cups of beets? How many cups of flour? Squiggle cups?

And 1 tablespoon of vanilla what? Essence? Extract? They're different things people!

And does my egg need to have a flower on the side? Because most of mine just have a bit of chicken poo still on them.

4 tablespoons flour

4 tablespoons sugar

1 heaped tablespoon cocoa powder

3 tablespoons milk

3 tablespoons oil

2 tablespoons of whisked egg

A splash of vanilla

Chocolate chips to taste



It's breakfast time here, but chocolate cakes is looking like a great breakfast food at the moment!

Finally...
>> ^dag:
Oh, and legalised Sift marriages to anyone, or anything - even to inanimate objects ... like say an old rusty flour sifter, for example.

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I think we should all do it collectively in our VideoSift collective to better serve the Sift Motherland. If you are not pulling your weight - we may put you in a virtual gulag. a "Siftlag" if you will.

But seriously, these are some valid points - and we are currently looking at the whole powerpoints system with a possible redistribution of powerpoints wealth in store for the future. Oh, and legalised Sift marriages to anyone, or anything - even to inanimate objects ... like say an old rusty flour sifter, for example.

>> ^arvana:

The half-life of the transverse waves propagated from that slap indicate a damping factor of: FIRM.


You said exactly what I was going to post! So, instead...

In this new video being created by our highly skilled graduates; the camera speed will be slightly slower at 1000 FPS @1920x1080 (or higher if intended for use with IMAX or a screen over two meters) with a secondary stream containing a duplicate, but separate feed set proportionately two-centimeters apart from the other feed. Then slightly zoomed out at around a 5.7% overall frame increase in size and a slight 2° shift from the vertical, counter-clockwise. Then combine the two feeds to one feed, except beforehand, polarize the frames (or frame frequencies) 90° from the other (relatively). Hand out polarized glasses--that of course have a film matched to the polarized frequency. Then increase the overall playback time, matching with the framerate speed, to give a new perceived 30 minute length (20 seconds is ridiculous).

Then some 1960's or 1970's music can be added in (the beat of the music must match the wave speed; some "human intercourse" period film pieces may have the required music) to further increase the relation of wave propagation seen in the video demonstration. This will help add to the overall immersion and enjoyment of the experience.

Then, we suggest the use of lubrication (Group 5, with a Viscosity of 800cSt is recommended) and then use some transformational waves (many options are available) at a decent amplitude and frequency. One traditional method used is caused by simple human mechanical kinetic manipulation (flexing muscle groups) in a rhythmic horizontal/vertical oppositional motion spread out over a chosen time span. Speed, duration, and intensity are decided by the user or a human/non-human counterpart. Typically, this will propagate a strand of flagellates into a D-glucose polysaccharide chains in a combined structure for simple discontinuation and cleanup; then quickly proceeding on to the web browser and watching the next "sift*".

If "flagellate" reaction is not noticed or possible for you, please follow the yellow strip on the floor. On your way out you may participate in our free clinical study looking for medical problems. You will need to put on a special garment for the study, and you will receive a complimentary lollipop! Do not be disturbed if this reaction is not noticed as it is a well known and documented myth created by the sub-species that is the focus of our demonstration video. Do not be disturbed if you think you look like as said sub-species.

Thank you for watching our dissertation on wave propagation.
We look forward to our next project on fluid dynamics!


*sift, definition below

sift (sift)
verb. sift·ed, sift·ing, sifts
v.tr.
1. To put (flour, for example) through a sieve or other straining device in order to separate the fine from the coarse particles.
2. To distinguish as if separating with a sieve: sifted the candidates for the job.
3. To apply by scattering with or as if with a sieve: sift sugar on a dessert.
4. To examine and sort carefully: sift the evidence.
v.intr.
1. To make use of a sieve.
2. To pass through or as if through a sieve: a meal that sifts easily.
3. To make a careful examination: sifted through back issues of the magazine.

sift (suhifft)
noun. sift·ed, sift·ing, sifts, spelunking
n.wtf.
1. A video on the website called "Videosift™"; sometimes amusing.
2. A video not on the website called "Videosift™", fought over in a mating like ritual to become a sift.

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haha, only if I become a serial killer and decide to track each of you down and kill you in bizarre ways - dropping a rusty flour sifter as my calling card - leaving the police scratching their heads unable to determine what ties all the deaths together ... hmmm. Sounds like a job for a Sheriff Lobo Quincy tag team special episode.




>> ^dotdude:

So dag, should we expect film about YOU and The Sift?

My preferred recipe involves boiling down some flour and water, since you end up with a thick liquid that isn't all sticky like the corn syrup recipes.

Simple carbs are bad for you. Everyone knows this? None of the "omg carbs KILL BABIES" people or studies seem to contrast simple carbs vs. complex carbs. Are they stuffing them full of white bread? White rice? There was a study recently that showed just having *some* brown rice with your white rice measurably reduced the risk of diabetes, but I didn't see any of the He-Man Caveman Diet people mention that.

Some studies (though not all, admittedly--there are conflicting reports) indicate that sugars that are unbalanced in favor of more fructose (HFCS) cause problems that eating table sugar doesn't.

For the fatty meats, you also have to be careful about what exactly they're eating. Hamburger is the refined flour of the red meat world and steak is the 100% whole wheat bread. There's a difference in how they're digested, and there's a difference on their effects on the body. I'm too lazy to go find the reference, but there was a study comparing eating small amounts of hamburger vs. steak every day for some period of time, and the hamburger group had higher cholesterol and blood pressure and whatnot (could be misremembering the exact problems).

And for this study, the only thing that's moderately surprising is that the heavy drinkers are healthier than the non-drinkers. But it it utterly unsurprising that the moderate drinkers are healthier than both; this has been common knowledge for a while. Well, I am kinda surprised that 3 drinks a day is moderate drinking. That's a lot more than I drink. I wonder how the data would skew if they broke it down to 1 every few days, 1 every day, 2 every day, 3 every day, etc.

I'd put $5 on the some-complex-carb--eating, some-steak-eating, vegetable-eating, sugar/simple-carb--reducing, HFCS-avoiding, moderately-drinking person being healthier than any of the other permutations. Moderation isn't as sexy as being able to get all religious about being anti/pro-meat or anti/pro-carb or anti/pro-booze, though, I suppose!

>> ^Sagemind:

Tim Horton "SHOULD" be the Prime Minister of Canada.
Then all the politicians would sit and talk over coffee and eat donuts - It would be our new national past time - oh, wait, it already is!


Fun story:

Horton was driving back to his house because he had a meeting with my grandfather the next day about making Dover Flour the exclusive provider of flour for Tim Hortons products.

If it weren't for that meeting, Horton may have just stayed in Toronto.

I get what you're saying, but a victim can and would sue for the court costs as part of their settlement. That's pretty routine.

It's routine in civil cases, not as much in criminal. If it's still innocent until proven guilty and shadow of a doubt, suddenly suing for costs is small consolation for the victim's worries about being stuck losing an honest case and being out both their innocence AND their cash. Child abuse cases are hard enough to prove already, making the victim pay actually creates more injustice.

The essentials are pretty clear.

You'd think so, but try and get a few million people to agree on it. I know here in Canada we already have removed taxes from 'essential' items. So there is no sales tax on milk, butter or flour, but there is on bread. I know for anyone living outside urban centres the only means of transportation available is automobiles, is it essential in those areas? Even if you say it isn't, what's done about the dissenting minority?


Is it a $30 million dollar home? Why not?

Tax shelter by any other name would sound as sweet?

How many times has Canada been invaded by foreign nations? Seriously. Think about that.

I certainly have. We survived the entire Cold War, and we were practically neighbouring the USSR and all we had was an army they could've defeated in 24 hours. It's almost as if there really were some other factor staying their hand against us, as we had also made it clear we were an active enemy of the USSR. You can chalk that up to some unknown force and declare that you don't need an army. I'm going to take the conventional and more mundane explanation that the USSR was pretty sure any invasion into Canada would've been met by more than just the Canadian armed forces. Take away America's army and my Russian would be better than my grandfather's was.

Now look at Afghanistan. It's a fraction the size of the US, and many nations have tried to occupy it. None have done it successfully. Now imagine a nation trying to take over this country where so many citizens are armed. First we have a sprawling land mass. Second we have an armed population. They'd never succeed. Never.

Yes, let's please take Afghanistan as an example. Afghanistan is a desolate waste land with no resources even worth taking, and nation after nation has invaded and occupied it over and over again. It is one the poorest, least educated places on the planet, with some of the highest infant mortality rates in the world as well. When they weren't being invaded by foreigners though, the civilians were being crushed between one warlord after another. Afghanistan is the perfect example of why any nation worth living in needs both a strong police force and army in order to stay that way. Does it really matter if the USSR could never have fully conquered the US without an army? Isn't the ability to turn it into a desolate, ravaged third world while trying incentive enough?

2 large carrots, diced
2 medium onions, diced
3 sticks celery, chopped
2 sprigs thyme
3 sprigs rosemary
1 cup all-purpose flour for dredging
2 pints Guinness stout
3 cups "Bea" stock (can substitute cow-stock if Bea stock is unavailable)
1 small "Bea", cut into bite-sized cubes

Salt and Pepper to taste

Dredge "Bea" chunks in flour, sautee in hot pan until brown on all sides.
Add onion, carrots and celery, sautee until onions start to clarify.
Add hot "Bea" stock, Guiness and herbs to pan, heat to a high simmer.
Reduce heat, cover and simmer until "Bea" is fork tender- approx. 1 to 1.5 hours.
Uncover and simmer until thick.

Serve with mashed potatoes and plenty of Guinness.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

How? Do you just pull your sifting lever over and over again until flour comes out?

>> ^siftbot:
I masturbate.