I am beginning to think that Alan Furchtenicht may be correct when he suggests > Are you sure your ancestors brought the recipe with them from Europe, or > did they most likely first become acquainted with (sour setback starter) buckwheat pancakes here > in America? ~~~~~~ Marcella Dawson reports My ancestors from Bavaria took leftover Pfannkuchen(pancakes), cut them into slices and served them in soup at lunch. My Hessian ancestors were horrified with this practice. But no one served buckwheats. ~~~~~~~~~~~ Patrick says ......I've never heard of Hessians or any other Germans eating buckwheat, although in my experience (my grandmother was German) they will eat about anything. But Russians and Ukrainians definitely do eat buckwheat, so maybe this is a recipe that migrated west a bit. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Deborah says ............ My ancestors from Bavaria and My Hessian ancestors had Pfannkuchen but no buckwheat............ and ...My B-W grandfather (his father was born in Wuerttemberg, don't know about his mother) put meat drippings on his apple pie! His wife had Hessian roots (her grandfather was born in Langen, grandmother from Frankfurt area) and did not serve buckwheats, either. They lived in Minnesota. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Not much of a survey, but we have asked the question for a month or so and no one has been able to say that their ancestor brought the sour setback starter buckwheat cake recipe with them. Perhaps our ancestors did stumble on to this recipe for buckwheat cakes after they arrived in the American Colonies - what do you think? RegardsHal