Pancakes Need Heat

Some batters are tasty before they are cooked:
brownie, cake. Not so the pancake variety.
Pancakes need heat.
They demand attention.
It takes finesse to flip them just so.
Walk off and leave them,
they dry up until no amount of
syrup will make it right.
As to shape, perfect circles look nice
but the strange knobby ones
taste just as good. Short stack or
a mountain, depending on your appetite.
Add berries or nuts or chocolate chips
once in awhile for variety, but your basic,
unadulterated pancake never 
loses its appeal.
Fancy up a pancake
with powdered sugar, or
strawberries and whipped cream,
but rolled up right with butter inside
is just as good, just testing to see
if this batch is good. It always is.
The only way to ruin pancakes
is to ignore them.
Women can be like that, too.




(c) Ellen Gillette, 2012