Middle East, how we've missed you
Our next stop finds us back in the Middle East this time, more specifically we've arrived in Egypt. It took us awhile to find an Egyptian pancake recipe. Every thing I searched came up with this place called the Egyptian Pancake House. Upon first glance, the food in the pictures I found for this place looked like pancakes, and unknowing Americans kept calling them pancakes as well. However, upon further investigation, I soon found that these are not pancakes. In Egyptian they are called feteer meshaltet. These are actually more like a round, stuffed philo dough-ish food, something which doesn't fit our criteria for a pancake. We were hoping to find a unique Egyptian pancake recipe instead of the atayef I tend to find referenced for most Middle Eastern Arabic countries, but alas, we were unable to find one. So we ended up making a new version of atayef for Egypt. You might recall our first attempts at atayef were successful, but not a...