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    Entertaining: How to have a pancake social at home

    by Amy Scattergood, Los Angeles Times Dec 03, 2018 6 minutes

    One of the annual class projects at the Midwestern boarding school where I grew up was making maple syrup. After collecting sap from the local stand of sugar maples, we'd stay up all night, boiling the stuff into syrup in a wood-burning contraption we'd set up near the decrepit tennis courts. Then we'd celebrate the season's haul with a pancake social. It was a party we looked forward to all year - an excuse to pull an all-nighter outside when normally we'd be under curfew in the dorms, followed by the reward of towers of pancakes as night turned into morning.

    Now that I'm not a teenager but a parent to one, my pancake socials are more modest: They started as breakfasts I made when the kids were little and had sleepover guests to feed; now they're an excuse for the family and the occasional friend or two to get together on the weekend without the imperative that anyone change out of their pajamas.

    My weekend plan for pancakes usually involves hitting the market on Saturday

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