Random thought for today

[ysengrin]

Red Velvet Pancakes -- I gotta make a batch. A big batch, and freeze 'em for later :)

Comments

[schnee.livejournal.com]

Neat. :) Red food coloring, though? So they're basically just colored pancakes?

(Still a nice novelty, and pancakes are always nice, anyway, but they'd be even nicer if the red was due to an actual ingredient.)

[ysengrin.livejournal.com]

They're based on red velvet cake - and the red color was originally due to the interaction of the cocoa powder and other ingredients. Most cocoa powder since the 1830's is made by treating it with alkali; this process results in a cocoa powder that doesn't turn red like the older process powder did.

The red in the red velvet cake has gone from the original chocolate red to day-glo red from food coloring :)

[schnee.livejournal.com]

Ah, interesting! I never knew cocoa powder used to turn red. Thanks for the info. :)

[ysengrin.livejournal.com]

It's more of a brownish-red rather than day-glo red; think drying blood :)