Ugali Pancakes

Add pancakes to my list of kitchen disasters. We have a cook (Jane) now so it's surprising that I am still able to have kitchen disasters. I try to make pancakes at least once a week. Suzy has an amazing recipe which I haven't written down so I usually use a simple recipe Jane found. On Saturday night, I decided to make the batter since I wasn't sure if we were running on Sunday morning. After dinner I headed over to the kitchen to make the batter. We are having electrical issues so we had no power in the kitchen. It was almost dark and I had trouble seeing. I thought I had enough light to make batter if I was fast. I made the batter and stuck it in the fridge. The batter was a little thin so I added a little extra flour. The next morning, as I began cooking the pancakes, things didn't seem right. The texture of the batter was ok, but the pancakes were coming out thin and rubbery. I didn't know what was wrong so I finished making them. I figured it was the little extra flour I added. When I sat down to eat them, I knew something went horribly wrong. They were very dry and no matter how much syrup I added, they were horrible! Suzy told me back when I had my first disaster (I believe it was the chocolate cake that you could pick up an entire piece with a fork) that people will still eat it. And they did. Those poor people ate those nasty pancakes. A few hours later, I asked Jane if she ate the pancakes and she started laughing. She told me I had used ugali flour not the regular flour. In the low light, I didn't see she had two types of flour and I evidently grabbed the wrong container! Next time I will use a flashlight or wait until morning!