Rosa Parks' Peanut Butter Pancakes

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Rosa Parks, the famous black seamstress who refused to give up her seat to a white person on a Montgomery Bus back in 1955, passed away in 2005.  Memorabilia, photos and personal papers were later found in her Detroit home.  After a six-year debate, Rosa Parks' personal items were put up on the auction block at Guernsey's in New York City. Included in the memorabilia were:  a postcard from Martin Luther King Jr., the Presidential Medal of Freedom and a handwritten recipe for peanut butter pancakes on the back of a Detroit National Bank deposit slip.  Given that Rosa Parks was born and raised in Alabama, a peanut-growing state, it is no surprise that she added peanut butter to her pancakes.  It is also no surprise that the recipe was written on the back of a bank slip, given that there were not the plethora of cookbooks sixty years ago that there are now.  Here is the recipe for these mouthwatering pancakes.

Rosa Parks' Featherlite Pancakes

Stir:
1 cup flour
2 tbsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 tbsp sugar

Mix:
1 egg
1 1/4 cups milk
1/3 cup peanut butter melted
1 tbsp shortening or oil

Combine with dry ingredients.  Cook at 275 degrees Fahrenheit on griddle.
Note:  Featherlite refers to a type of self-rising flour.

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Note:  For more information on Rosa Parks visit my post "On Rosa's Ride" at http://alinefromlinda.blogspot.ca/2011/12/on-rosas-ride.html.