December
                        15
                     
      Ålands Pannkaka
Ålands Pannkaka
   Author: Margaret Gustavsson
  Type: Dessert
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  Serves: 12
 This is my Mother's original recipe. She served it cold, but my Mormor served it warm...
 Ingredients
 - 1 cup farina
 - 1 quart milk
 - 3 cups milk
 - 3 eggs, beaten
 - 1 cup sugar
 - 1 tablespoon flour
 - 12 cardamom seeds, peeled and crushed in mortar and pestle
 - 1 pinch Spanish saffron
 - 3 tablespoons butter
 
Instructions
 - Put farina and 1 quart of milk into a pot.
 - Bring to a boil and cook for about 5 minutes while stirring constantly until it thickens.
 - Remove from heat.
 - (it can cool off for a bit now if you have something else to do)
 - Preheat oven to 350°F.
 - Add the 3 cups of milk and beaten eggs and mix.
 - (electric mixer is OK)
 - Add the sugar and cardamom and mix until smooth.
 - There should not be any lumps.
 - Pour batter into a well buttered and floured cast iron frying pan.
 - Sprinkle / crumble the saffron threads over.
 - Dot with lumps of butter.
 - Carefully place in the middle of the preheated oven.
 - Bake at 350°F for about an hour until nicely browned on top.
 - Let it cool.
 - Then loosen around the edges and slide a soft pliable spatula under the bottom to loosen it from the pan.
 - Invert the frying pan onto a large plate that you have placed over it.
 - Remove frying pan.
 - Now place another plate where the frying pan had been.
 - Flip again.
 - Remove the plate which is now on top so that the pankaka is right side up.
 - Serve with whipped cream and lingonberry jam. (lingonsylt)
 
Notes
 
 
 Some people prefer it slightly warm (Mormor liked it that way)
 I usually serve it chilled.
 If there are leftovers, keep in the refrigerator.