Pancake Men

Ingredients

• 12 tsp baking soda
• 1 c whole wheat flour
• 1 c unbleached all-purpose white flour
• 12 tsp salt
• 2 c buttermilk
• 1 egg well beaten
• 14 lb chuck salt pork

Directions

1. Heat 14 cup water to a boil
2. Pour it on the baking soda in a cup to dissolve and cool
3. In a large bowl or pitcher mix the 2 flours and salt
4. Stir in buttermilk and egg beat well
5. Heat the griddle skillet or electric frying pan until a few drops of water dance on it
6. Rub it well with salt pork
7. Stir baking soda solution into batter
8. Make pancake men one at a time in center of griddle
9. Fill a serving spoon with batter pour it in adjoining circles to form torso head arms and legs
10. When bubbles form and burst in batter turn men with spatula and cook equally long on the other side
11. Grease griddle again before next pouring
12. Serve with maple syrup
13. Makes 6 pancake men