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Ricotta Hot Cakes With Honeycomb Butter

Recipe by Bill Granger from bill's food

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Bill's hotcakes are the perfect way to start a weekend!

Serves 6 to 8

Ingredients

Hot Cakes

1 1/3 cups ricotta
¾ cup milk
4 eggs separated
1 cup plain flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 pinch of salt
50 g butter
Fresh strawberry halved
Icing sugar for dusting

Honeycomb Butter

250 g unsalted butter softened
100 g sugar honeycomb crushed with a rolling pin or a crunchie bar
2 tablespoons honey

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Method

Hot Cakes

Place ricotta, milk and egg yolks in a mixing bowl and mix to combine.
Sift the flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl.
Add to the ricotta mixture and mix until just combined.
Place egg whites in a clean dry bowl and beat until stiff peaks form.
Fold egg whites through batter in two batches, with a large metal spoon.
Lightly grease a large non-stick frying pan with a small portion of the butter and drop 2 tablespoons of batter per hotcake into the pan (don't cook more than 3 per batch).
Cook over a low to medium heat for 2 minutes, or until hotcakes have golden undersides.
Turn hotcakes and cook on the other side until golden and cooked through.
Transfer to a plate and quickly assemble with other ingredients.
Stack 3 hotcakes on a plate and top with strawberries and a slice of honeycomb butter.
Dust with icing sugar.

Honeycomb Butter

Place all ingredients in a food processor and blend until smooth.
Shape into a log on plastic wrap, roll, seal and chill in a refrigerator for 2 hours.
Store leftover honeycomb butter in the fridge for up to 24 hours, or in the freezer - it's great on toast.

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Tim Parker 11 days ago

There were no other restaurants that we returned to when we visited a second time to Sydney (Darlinghurst) not that all weren't great we just wanted to try more with the exception of eating "Breakie" at Bill's for these Ricotta Pancakes with Bananas and honeycomb butter. They were as excellent as I remembered the first time!

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Lynn108 September 2011

thank you krystynaCooks for the honeycomb recipe as I was not sure what this was I am going to try this tomorrow. It looks and sounds very delicious Thank you bill for being a guest on my travel show as this is where we found out about you my husband googled your cafe. I probably will not be able to do this recipe as well as you but will give it a try as for the golden syrup being in U.S. I hope I can find it Again thanks for sharing your recipes

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Rossipab October 2010

I have had these hotcakes at Bill's Cafe at Darlinghust in Sydney, they are delicious!

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Leni June 2010

If this was served to me in a restaurant Id be impressed. The tastiest hotcakes ive ever eaten. the butter to die for.

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Niksya April 2010

I am from Russia. I want to say with confidence - this is amazing pancakes, nothing tastes better never eat!

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Denise84 November 2009

Lovely. Thanks for the recipe. I have made something similar...my only challenge will be finding the Golden Syrup here in the US...I believe I have seen it at the Kroger Supermarket in the British specialty section. Yay.

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krystynaCooks November 2009

Yes you could say HONEYCOMB is a CRUNCHIE Bar - its a candy/confectionary Tp make Honeycomb its very easy: Put 6 Tablesp white sugar, 2 Tablespn Honey or Golden Syrup, 2 teaspns water into Medium - Large saucepan - Bring to gentle boil stirring till sugar is dissolved. then allow to simmer about 5 minutes DO NOT STIR - DO NOT WALK AWAY FROM STOVE. When Toffee is a nice golden colour REMOVE from Heat & add 1 Tablepsn BICARBONATE of SODA aka BAKING SODA & stir be careful as it will triple in volume. ITS EXTREMELY HOT - YOU CAN GET BURNT BADLY Pour into lined Baking dish & cool

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- jamie farrer December 2009
  
  yes iam a chef and i have had bad experiancesd showing apprentices how to do honeycomb especially when you are holding the pot and you ask them to scrape the pot and you say to them dont flick the spatular as it is hot then they do and burn you
  
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Denise84 November 2009

What is Honeycomb -- 100 g sugar honeycomb crushed with a rolling pin or a Crunchie bar -- is this some kind of candy? I am not familiar with honeycomb other than the real beeswax sort.

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- Annie February 2010
  
  This recipe is not from the book Bill's Food, but Bill's Sydney Food
  
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gail harvey October 2009

Bills hot cakes are the best!!!!. I asked my daughter in law what she wanted for her birthday and guess what she said. Yes, Hot cakes please..............

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JH October 2009

What a way to start a day. These are sublime. They turn out just perfect and the honeycomb butter is to die for.

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