Aunt Jemima: Two Ways

Making Aunt Jemima waffles or pancakes is much like real cooking, because you do have to add eggs, oil, etc. Aunt J. has simply sifted together the flour and baking powder and stuff for you. So, a waffle with strawberries and whipped cream is always safe and classic. I've done that successfully and often. Recently though, I decided to try pumpkin pancakes. My motivation for this was extra pumpkin left over from making pumpkin bread. All they had at Safeway was a giant can of pumpkin. I don't remember the recipe I found for the pancakes, but it had to do with replacing some of the wet ingredients with pumpkin, and adding cinnamon. The consistency never turned out right, however, and the thick batter only produced heavy, and almost chewy pancakes that never even tasted that pumpkin-y.