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Jen patkukon. Behold, pancakes.

de philodice, 2010-decembro-18

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philodice (Montri la profilon) 2010-decembro-18 14:26:16

Can you help me translate this recipe for a friend?
Sweet potato pancakes. The story is, I wanted to make pancakes that tasted like Southern style American candied yams. However, I also wanted them to be healthy and good to eat.

I worked out this recipe and it is perfect.
1 cup of sweet potato.
1 1/2 cup of whole wheat pancake mix.
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
2 eggs
1/4 cup milk
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
3/4 cup vanilla and honey yogurt
Some nutmeg
Optional: Raisins, nuts.
Add water until consistency is good, usually 1/2 cup.

Bake the sweet potato. Allow to cool, then remove the skin. Mash the potato.
Mix pancake mix in large bowl. Stir in vegetable oil, eggs, spices, yogurt, sweet potato, and milk. Adjust the thickness by adding water.

Heat a lightly oiled skillet to medium. Pour small amounts of batter onto the skillet, and cook until bubbles appear on the surface of the pancake. Flip, and cook until the other side is brown.

Topping:
1 carton yogurt.
2 spoons of honey
1 teaspoon cinnamon
some nutmeg
The zest from the skin of two oranges.

Melt the honey, stir in spices. Allow to cool and stir into the yogurt. Place on pancakes. Top with a sprinkle of orange zest.

I am aware the measurements aren't universal. I will adjust those later, now I'm having trouble finding all the right words and sentence structure.

philodice (Montri la profilon) 2010-decembro-18 15:25:10

I meant, Jen, patkukojn. I'm getting this, no matter how long it takes.

erinja (Montri la profilon) 2010-decembro-18 20:03:04

It would be "jen patkukoj"

No -n with "jen". You aren't doing an action on the pancakes.

philodice (Montri la profilon) 2010-decembro-18 20:18:17

erinja:It would be "jen patkukoj"

No -n with "jen". You aren't doing an action on the pancakes.
Not yet...lol.

erinja (Montri la profilon) 2010-decembro-18 20:24:30

I'd be happy to help translate your recipe, but first you'll need to do some research on weights and measures. I know you said you wanted to translate and then re-do the weights but as you'll see, it might be good to do some of it up front.

Keep in mind that outside the US almost everyone measures solids in terms of weight, not volume (so a recipe wouldn't call for a cup of sweet potato, but "xxx grams").

Liquids should be measured in milliliters. Teaspoons and tablespoons, in my opinion, should be given a dual measurement, both in teaspoons or tablespoons, and in milliliters, for extra clarity.

Also keep in mind that most foreigners won't have access to American-style pancake mix. The idea of pancakes is common to almost every culture but every culture seems to do them differently, and I wouldn't assume that someone can get this ingredient, which seems pretty basic to us. If I were you, I would look online for a recipe for whole wheat pancake mix, get the ingredients and quantities, and scale it down to what your recipe requires (a cup and a half of the stuff).

Vanilla and honey yogurt might not be found everywhere but you could put in a note that you could use plain vanilla yogurt and add some honey.

I wouldn't refer to one carton of yogurt; sizes vary in different countries. I would say how many milliliters of yogurt. It should be written on the packaging since most American packages show both metric and English measurement systems.

3rdblade (Montri la profilon) 2010-decembro-19 02:37:22

Lemme get you started.

Unue, feliĉiĝu. Neniam kuiras patkukojn malridetante. Due, baku la dolĉan terpomon...

First, get happy. Never make pancakes while frowning. Second, bake the sweet potato...

By the way, is a sweet potato also an ignamo (yam)? Is there a difference between the two? In Australia we usually use the orange Polynesian variety, called kumara. The purple-skinned, cream-fleshed ones are rarer.

erinja (Montri la profilon) 2010-decembro-19 03:14:36

The purple-skinned ones are only found in Asian markets in the US, this recipe would be written for the orange kind. Although I'm pretty sure that the purple-skinned kind would also work out just fine in this recipe.

philodice (Montri la profilon) 2010-decembro-19 14:47:03

Purple would be awesome. Somebody asked me last night at the party while I was making them. They wanted to know if I meant yams, sweet potatoes, the big orange ones, or the purple ones. It made me smile to myself that the word I took for granted was not clear. So I will specify orange sweet potatoes.

erinja (Montri la profilon) 2010-decembro-19 19:49:14

I am pretty sure that the purple ones would also work, so it might be worth noting in the recipe that the recipe was designed with the orange ones in mind, but that the purple skinned ones (which are sort of cream colored inside, if I remember right) would also probably work.

3rdblade (Montri la profilon) 2010-decembro-19 20:40:16

The purple ones popular in east Asia are cream-coloured inside, but there is also a rarer variety that's purple inside as well. I have never seen one in the flesh, only sweets made from them. If you obtained these otherworldly yams you could make purpuraj patkukoj. Bongusta!

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