The 1940s and 1950s
were the golden age of train travel and also the pinnacle of
railroad dining car operations. For many passengers, the ambiance of
the dining car was the reason they rode the train. The following
recipe is one from that golden age.
B&O Buckwheat Cakes
Makes: 4 servings
½ teaspoon dry active yeast
1 tablespoon milk or water
¾ tablespoon melted butter
1 ¾ cups cold water
1 ½ cups buckwheat flour
¼ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ tablespoon dark syrup (corn syrup or pancake syrup)
I’ve been read the history of different railroad on line both in the
United States and Canada and have found that each railroad had
special recipes that they feature in there dining car . I have
started making collections of these recipes and will start putting
one in each month’s newsletter. I have ten recipes so far and still
working on getting more, but this will take me to the end of the
year. We going to change the name of the What’s Cooking column to
The Dining Car and feature one of the recipes each month. I’m also
going to try some of them as for this one it was good, but I’m not a
big fan of buckwheat and I didn’t have corn syrup so I just used
pancake syrup. I have to say my favorite is still butter milk
pancakes. Until next month.
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