Recipe for Marshall Fields’ Pancakes

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Oh the good old days (1980’s) when grandma would take us out to Marshall Fields for Sunday champagne brunch. Commonly we frequented the Marshall Fields in River Oaks (Lansing Illinois), but we also went to brunches in downtown Chicago.

Part of the brunch was fantastic little thin rolled brown pancakes. Covering the rolled pancakes was maple syrup and butter (very rich).

They were thin pancakes akin to a crepe, though I have made crepes before and nothing ever looked or tasted like those pancakes.

My cookbook from Fields doesn’t mention the pancakes, and of course the classic brunch is no longer served at Marshall Fields. In fact I don’t even think they do breakfast at all anymore (except for donuts in the basement of the one downtown).

Would there happen to be a chef or perhaps someone who used to work at Fields on the SDMB that would know what they were?

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Marshall Fields will give out its recipes, if you write and ask them to. It’s worth giving a try.

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But it’ll cost you two-fifty…

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Is it possible they were what amounts to Russian blini (small thin raised pancakes)?

http://www.recipe-a-day.com/archives/dec/19_Dec_97_Blini.html

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I don’t have that one but I do have the recipe for the Marshall Fields chicken salad if you are interested.

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No, no, that’s the cookies…

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Thanks for the offer gadget, but I have all the recipes I am looking for (except for the pancakes). My favorites are Marshall Field’s Ozark Pudding and Epicureans (ham and turkey sandwiches with a rich sauce covering it).

DDG it could be a Blini, although I have seen other recipes with buckwheat flour and that would seem more consistent with Field’s darker color. Since Fields didn’t serve the pancakes with the traditional caviar or even sour cream, I am willing to bet they altered the recipe as well.

The problem in getting the recipe from Fields is that it was taken over by Dayton Hudson. No one there seems to remember champagne brunches, let alone what was on them. I am willing to bet that the answer will have to come from someone retired from Fields, or who once worked for them in the 80’s.

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Believe there’s a slight mix-up here. Ethilrist is probably thinking of the Neiman Marcus $250 (or $2.50:)) recipe for their chocolate chip cookies:

http://66.45.56.49/recipes/neiman.htm

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I don’t know the crepe recipe but can tell you the the whipped butter on the crepes had maple syrup (or maple syrup flavor) in the butter. I am looking for a recipe for the baked sausage and apples. Anyone?

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FYI, This thread is from 13 years ago and many of the participants have moved on.

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Since this thread is about recipes, this is better suited to Cafe Society, which didn’t exist when this thread was created.

Moving thread from General Questions to Cafe Society.

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As opposed to Marshall Fields, which did exist when the thread was created, but doesn’t now.

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Actually, it still does exist. It’s just that the current owners are too stupid to call it by its real name.

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Try asking Uncle Phaedrus. His site is all about the odd ad obscure recipes people are looking for.

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I could have sworn that I read in the last couple of months that someone had bought the Marshall Fields name and was planning a resurrection along with a number of other brands that had been bought out over the years…