#49erflapjacks

Forty-Niner Flapjacks from Food.com

The Original Pancake House chain keeps this recipe a secret because their Forty-Niner Flapjacks are SO GOOD. They're a hybrid between pancake and crepe. The texture is crepe like, but it has a golden pancake flavour. It is what I tend to order every single time my family goes out for breakfast in Kalihi, Hawaii. 

To the inter-webs I turn for the secret recipe. Someone out there claims to have cracked the pancake code. I am unconvinced these are like the restaurant ones, but I failed to follow the recipe correctly, so it may be my fault. 

  2 teaspoons dry yeast

2 cups warmed milk, 110 degrees

1 1/2 tablespoons melted butter

2 eggs, lightly beaten

1 1/2 tablespoons sugar

1 1/4 cups bread or 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

The yeast is dissolved into warm milk. 

Combine dry ingredients. 

Combine dry and wet ingredients (NOT eggs or vanilla yet)

Let sit for an hour while the yeast awakens. Awaken ye yeastly creatures!

Put the mixture in the fridge overnight

THEN in the morning, add the eggs. 

My mistake: I added the eggs and forgot to put the mixture in the fridge. Essentially, I had created an epic waffle-like batter. The pancakes had the best texture ever, but tasted like Belgian waffles!