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Pythagorean Pancakes 3:2:1 ratio. 3 eggs, 2 cups of milk and 1 cup flour. No beans. It seems heavy on liquid, but it makes lovely, flat crepes.
by dr_dshiv 5y ago
Pythagorean Pancakes
3:2:1 ratio. 3 eggs, 2 cups of milk and 1 cup flour. No beans.
It seems heavy on liquid, but it makes lovely, flat crepes.
- dr_dshiv 5y agoActual Recipe from Porphyry's Life of Pythagoras: "As to food, his breakfast was chiefly of honey; at dinner he used bread made of millet, barley or herbs, raw and boiled. Only rarely did he eat the flesh of victims; nor did he take this from every part of the anatomy. When he intended to sojourn in the sanctuaries of the divinities, he would eat no more than was necessary to still hunger and thirst. To quiet hunger, he made a mixture of poppy seed and sesame, the skin of a sea-onion, well washed, till entirely drained of the outward juice; of the flower of the daffodil, and the leaves of mallows, of paste of barley and pea; taking an equal weight of which, and chopping it small, with Hymettian honey he made it into mass. Against thirst he took the seed of cucumbers, and the best dried raisins, extracting the seeds, and the flower of coriander, and the seeds of mallows, purselain, scraped cheese, meal and cream; these he made up with wild honey."
- OJFord 5y ago> Pythagorean > 3:2:1 Not 5:4:3?
- dr_dshiv 5y agoOnly if you want pancakes with right angles. Totally impractical! On the other hand, did you know that the ratio of the volume of a cone to a hemisphere to a cylinder is 1:2:3?
- dtgriscom 5y agoOnly works in Euclidean spaces