Batter up! Kewanee Kiwanis members carry on long pancake-making tradition with roots that stretch through ancient Rome
Susan DeVilder
The Star Courier
Veteran pancake-maker Brock Tumbleson confidently poured batter from a two-liter plastic pitcher forming about a dozen plate-sized pancakes onto a circular, rotating grill.
“You can get about 16 large pancakes from one pitcher,” Tumbleson said, who has learned a thing or two about the art of making pancakes over the last 40 years.
At 9 a.m. on a Saturday in March, the kitchen in the lower level of the Kewanee’s First United Methodist Church was awash with activity. For the 70th year, the Kiwanis Club hosted a pancake breakfast, the club’s biggest annual fundraiser. For 35 years, the location of the breakfast has remained the same.
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